Case Summary: Reese, a social worker who works with parent education and psychoeducational groups with children is being charged with incompetence. These groups deal with issues of behavioral and impulse control. While in a group setting she had the children draw pictures of a time that they did something without stopping to think about it. One of the members of the group; Sam a nine year old, drew a picture that was concerning to Reese. The picture was of Sam standing over his sister’s bed. When Reese asked about the picture Sam replied, “I know I shouldn’t touch her there, but sometimes I just do it without thinking.” Reese was concerned enough to talk to him after the group. Define the Ethical Dilemma: After collaboration with group members …show more content…
This principle states that social workers should avoid causing harm and prevent harm from occurring to clients or others. Where harm is unavoidable, social workers should choose the course of least harm or most easily reversible harm (Rothman pg. 19). This is applied by the social worker determining if leaving immediately to make a report would cause the client more harm (Rothman 2014). Understand Client Values: This would be the time for the biopsychosocial assessment review. This would be a time for the family support system and family roles to be explored. It would also allow Reese to gain a better perspective of the family interactions. Explore Impact of Decision on Personal Values: This case brought out personal values of self-awareness and support system and these were difficult decisions for Reese since she is a mandate reporter. Self-awareness, Reese was aware that she could not just leave Sam in a vulnerable state after disclosing such personal information. As for support systems, Reese was able to report to her supervisors after she knew that Sam was no longer in a vulnerable …show more content…
8 2008). Therefore your honor, this would make Reese incompetent in this area of practice. As she stated in her own words “I have done some reading about working with children who are sex offenders and I know a bit about it,” that does not qualify as competence under 1.04. Nor does it qualify as research under Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession section 5.02 Evaluation and Research (NASW pg. 25 2008). According to the Child Maltreatment Assessment Protocol for the State of Arkansas Department of Human Services, Sexual abuse by a child younger than 14 years of age of another child younger than 18 years of age. The sexual abuse may be any of the following acts: A.) Any contact or attempted contact between the sex organ of one child and the mouth of another child. B.) Any act of sexual gratification involving the touching, directly or through clothing, of the sex organs, buttocks or anus of another child or the breast of a female child. C.) Any penetration, however slight, of the anus or mouth of another child by his
Cunningham, M. (2012). Integrating Spirituality in Clinical Social Work Practice: Walking the Labyrinth (1 ed.). Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education Inc.
adult when the child is being used for sexual stimulation of the perpetrator or another person when the perpetrator or another person is in a position of power or control over the victim’ (USLEGAL.com). Examples from the text about sexual molestation from the text would have been when the grandmother was doing this to Brian or Uncle Stanley to Jeanette. The parents knew that it was happening to Brian but neither of them did anything about it so Lori had to try and stop it herself which caused a fight. Another example was when Uncle Stanley tried to sexually abuse Jeanette but when she runs outside to tell her mother what happened all she says is “Did he hurt you?” and
3. Report of the Interagency Council on Sex Offender Treatment to the Senate Interim Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice, 1993
Child abuse is physical maltreatment of a child’s body (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abuse). Which is the beating of a child with any item or object, for example a belt, fist, stick, and ruler. Federal law calls it impact trauma which I think is another phrase for physical violence (https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/whatiscan.cfm). Also it has a form called incest (http://www.ct.gov/dcf/cwp/view.asp?a=2556&Q=316956#Typesofneglect). Besides beating like you heard in the sentence before there are unimaginable ways to do child abuse. Child abuse can be physical but it has a non physical counterpart called neglect. There are other non appropriate versions to. The ones I am talking about deal with bodily functions that are inappropriate for school terms. If you want to know what they are go to www.ct.gov to find out the rest. Those ways might gross that is why they are inappropriate. Also cutting of a is child abuse (http://www.ct.gov/dcf/cwp/view.asp?a=2...
SEXUAL ABUSE: Coercing or attempting to coerce any sexual contact without consent, e.g., marital rape, forcing sex after physical beating, attacks on sexual parts of the body or treating another in a sexually demeaning manner.
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature when:
What is sexual assault? Sexual assault is, “any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and attempted rape” (Sexual Assault).
Social workers are increasingly recognized as an inevitable part of interdisciplinary teams in addressing the needs of clients who seek for legal remedies and services. The relationship between social work and law has been developing since 1917, when Mary Richmond, an architect of modern social work, acknowledged the role of legal authorities while developing her conceptual model for casework (Forgelson, 1970). Later, Mary Richmond drafted an early social work code of ethics in the early 1920s (Reamer, 1987). However, from the development perspective, all 50 states in the US have passed statutes requiring professionals from certain disciplines, including social work and law, to report any abuse or crime happened in the past or is going to happen in the nearest future if there are good reasons to believe that is true. Dubose and Morris (2005) stated that very few states passed similar mandatory reporting statutes for attorneys. It is not surprising that only a few states accepted these statutes because of the presence of the attorney-client privilege statute, which is true for all states. Due to differences in the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and NASW Code of Ethics, professionals from the respective disciplines may have conflicts while both provide social and legal support to the same client from a domestic violence organization. There are two main reasons that allow the tension to happen, social workers are mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect but lawyers, on the contrary, have an ethical responsibility to maintain client confidentiality (Taylor, 2006).
• any sexual act between an adult and a minor, or between two minors, when one exerts power over the
The social workers in both videos gathered information regarding each of the client’s issues. Another common denominator in both videos is that both of the social workers repeated what the client had said in their own words to allow the client to feel heard and understood. In the first video, social worker Karen asked direct questions relating to Mike’s alcohol addiction while also addressing how the addiction impacts his relationships including his marriage. Karen also addressed inconsistencies with the client doing so appropriately and quickly. It appears that in the first video, Karen focuses on the reality of the issue at hand to assist the client with establishing and accepting
The social work profession is not only about the knowledge of the theories, ethical guidelines, values and principles of the profession, but also it’s about applying that knowledge to everyday situations. It is a profession dedicated to enhancing human capacity to solve complex social problems in order to create a more humane and just society (Arizona State University, 2013). In the profession, social workers are encourage to use their skills such as their critical thinking and especially their decision-making skills. In addition, they work in a number of different settings with diverse individuals. Although dilemmas will arise, social workers need to be culturally competent to work with others and to avoid breaching any ethical standards.
children are the exclusive sexual objects in such a case. they usually come to play that
Child abuse happens in many different ways, but the result is the same whether it a serious physical or emotional harm. Child abuse is emotional, physical, economic and sexual maltreatment that occurs among children ranging from eighteen years of age and below. Child abuse and or maltreatment constitutes all forms of physical and emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health and survival.
“Any recent act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse or exploitation; or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk of serious harm.”
a sexual nature, however, and can include offensive remarks about a person 's sex. For example,