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From the Front Lines: Student Cases in Social Work Ethics, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (December 27, 2012) © 2014

  • Juliet C. Rothman

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  • CSWE Core Competencies and Practice Behavior Examples– Found in the beginning of the text, this overview provides a listing of practice behavior examples addressed throughout the text. Look for the chapter numbers next to the various 42 practice behavior examples.
  • CSWE Core Competencies and Practice Behaviors Applied – Every chapter opener provides a snapshot of the most prominent competencies and practice behaviors addressed in each chapter.
  • Competency-based critical thinking questions–Found throughout the text; asks students to critically think about the featured competencies and practice behavior examples in relation to the content they’re learning.
  • Case Studies — Integrated and contextualized cases throughout the book encourage students to develop an awareness of the impact of ethical issues at all levels of social work practice.
  • Outlines the elements of ethical decision-making — Provides students with a clear guide to ethical problem recognition, definition and solution.
  • Two separate Tables of Contents — Allow instructors and students to find appropriate cases based upon either the NASW Standards or by a specific field of practice.
  • Boxed Discussion Points — Each chapter has boxed points of additional information for consideration and discussion.

In This Section:

1) Overview of Changes

2) Chapter by Chapter Changes

1) Overview of Changes:

  • Completely new cases have been added to the relevant chapters, including issues of staff safety and patient care in a mental hospital, a consideration of “duty to report” related to colleague misconduct, responsibility to protect as well as support self-determination for a vulnerable client, addressing “best interest” in a host setting with differing values and priorities, keeping client secrets, and permanency planning for very young children

2) Chapter by Chapter Changes:

  • 11 new case studies keep the material current and timely.

CHAPTER 6: NASW ETHICAL STANDARD ONE

  • Case Study F: Determining an Acceptable Risk for a Vulnerable Client: Where Protection Impacts Self-Determination /Mira Underwood, MSW
  • Case Study G: Permanency Placement for Very Young Children: What Happens To Family Preservation?/Amone Bounkhoun, MSW

CHAPTER 7: NASW ETHICAL STANDARD TWO

  • Case Study H : Interpreting for Limited English Proficiency Clients: Is “Some” Really Enough?/ Sarah Thibault, MSW
  • Case Study I: Staff Safety and Patien Care: What is the Social Worker’s Role?/ Natalie Aragon, MSW

CHAPTER 8: NASW ETHICAL STANDARD THREE

  • Case Study O: Supporting “Best Interest” in a Host Setting/ Kylie Pedersen, MSW

CHAPTER 9: NASW ETHICAL STANDARD FOUR

  • Case Study R: Keeping Client Secrets: Where Does Professional Responsibility Lie?/Catherine Turnbull, MSW

CHAPTER 11: NASW ETHICAL STANDARD SIX

  • Case Study V: A Journey to Moral Action: Balancing Personal, Professional, and Legal Obligations/Penelope Nabakov, MSW
  • Case Study Y : Hoarding: Drawing the Line Between Personal and Public Rights/ Kari Kientzy, MSW
  • Case Study Z : Permanency planning for young children: Are Brief Time Frames Always in the Child’s Best Interests?/Maria melendez, msw
  • Casy Study AA : Preparing a Child for Death: Medical and Religious Considerations/ Colette Hottinger, MSW

In this Section:
1. Brief Table of Contents

2. Full Table of Contents

 

 

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

PART ONE

 

CHAPTER 1:   FRAMING THE ETHICAL PROBLEM

CHAPTER 2:   THEORETICAL CONCEPTS AND ETHICAL PRINCIPLES     

CHAPTER 3:   USING THE CODE OF ETHICS OF THE NATIONALASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS

CHAPTER 4:   EXPLORING VALUE SYSTEMS

CHAPTER 5:   CONSIDERING OPTIONS AND RESOLVING THE DILEMMA

 

PART TWO

 

CHAPTER 6:   NASW ETHICAL STANDARD ONE

CHAPTER 7:   NASW ETHICAL STANDARD TWO

CHAPTER 8:   NASW ETHICAL STANDARD THREE

CHAPTER 9:   NASW ETHICAL STANDARD FOUR

CHAPTER 10:  NASW ETHICAL STANDARD FIVE

CHAPTER 11:  NASW ETHICAL STANDARD SIX


 FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:

PART ONE

 

CHAPTER 1:   FRAMING THE ETHICAL PROBLEM

Defining the Ethical Problem

Gathering Information

 

CHAPTER 2:   THEORETICAL CONCEPTS AND ETHICAL PRINCIPLES     

Theoretical Concepts

From Theories to Principles 

Selecting an Appropriate Theory      

 

CHAPTER 3:   USING THE CODE OF ETHICS OF THE NATIONALASSOCIATION OF SOCIAL WORKERS

Code Structure and Content

Legal Codes and Ethical Codes

Laws, Malpractice, and the NASW Code of Ethics

Laws and Personal Ethical Standards        

Using the Code to Inform Legal/Ethical Decisions

 

CHAPTER 4:   EXPLORING VALUE SYSTEMS

Real and Ideal Values

Value Terminology

VALUE SYSTEMS

Developing a Values Hierarchy

 

CHAPTER 5:   CONSIDERING OPTIONS AND RESOLVING THE DILEMMA

Defining Options

Selecting A Resolution

 

PART TWO

 

CHAPTER 6:   NASW ETHICAL STANDARD ONE

SOCIAL WORKERS’ ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES TO CLIENTS

Provisions of Code

The Cases

Case Study A: Protecting The Best Interests Of a Minor/Elena B. Glekas, MSW

Case Study B: When “Best Interests of Client” Harms a Third Party/ Karen Altenberg Libman, MSW, MBA

Case Study C: When Living Feels Like Dying: Ethical Decision making with a Depressed Dialysis Patient/Mary Kardauskas, SHCJ, MSW

Case Study D: Reading the Future: When “Best Interest” Must Last 20 Years/ Amy Craig-Van Grack, MSW

Case Study E: In the Client’s Interest: Self-Determination and Mental Disability/Jose Carlos Vera, MSW

Case Study F:   Determining an Acceptable Risk for a Vulnerable Client: Where Protection Impacts Self-Determination /Mira Underwood, MSW

Case Study G:   Permanency Placement for Very Young Children: What Happens To Family Preservation?/Amone Bounkhoun, MSW

 

CHAPTER 7:   NASW ETHICAL STANDARD TWO

Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibilities to Colleagues

Provisions of Code

The Cases

Casey Study H : Interpreting for Limited English Proficiency Clients:  Is “Some”

Really Enough?/ Sarah Thibault, MSW

Case Study I:  Staff Safety and Patien Care: What is the Social Worker’s Role?/ Natalie Aragon, MSW

Case Study J: COLLEAGUE MISCONDUCT:  IF NOTHING HARMFUL REALLY HAPPENED, DO I STILL HAVE TO REPORT?/Rosa Lutrario, MSW

 

CHAPTER  8:  NASW ETHICAL STANDARD THREE

Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibilities to Practice Settings

Provisions of the Code

The Cases

Case Study K:    .Can Limitation of Informed Consent by an Agency Ever Be Justified?/Diane Inselberg Spirer, MSW

Case Study L:   .Meeting the Needs of Immigrants: Must Acculturation be A Condition of Agency Service / Thomas W. Gray, PhD., MSW

Case Study M:  .An Employee Assistance Counselor’s Dilemma/ Mel Hall-Crawford, MSW

Case Study N: Group Therapy: Client Needs and Fiscal Viability/Thomas C. Bertone, MSW CSC

Case Study O:  Supporting “Best Interest” in a Host Setting/ Kylie Pedersen, MSW

 

CHAPTER 9:   NASW ETHICAL STANDARD FOUR

Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals

Provisions of  Code

The Cases

Case  Study P:  When a Client Threatens Suicide: Client Autonomy and Professional Obligation/Gigi Stowe, MSW

Case Study Q:   Fidelity to a Client Unable to Communicate/ Marian D. Kaufman, MSW

Case Study R:  Keeping Client Secrets: Where Does Professional Responsibility Lie?/Catherine Turnbull, MSW

 

CHAPTER 10:  NASW ETHICAL STANDARD FIVE

Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession

Provisions of Code

The Cases

Case Study S:  “My Clients Are in a Hurry!”: Professional Integrity versus Client Self-Determination/ Shereen Rubenstein, MSW

Case Study T:  Rape: When Professional Values Place Vulnerable Clients at Risk/ EILEEN DOMBO, MSW

Case Study U: DISCHARGE HER TO A HOSPICE NOW!”—A Conflict of Professional Loyalties/ Josephine Bulkley, J.D., MSW

 

CHAPTER 11:  NASW ETHICAL STANDARD SIX

Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibilities to the Broader Society

Provisions of Code

The Cases

Case Study V: A Journey to Moral Action: Balancing Personal, Professional, and Legal Obligations/Penelope Nabakov, MSW

Case Study W: Dealing Drugs: Can Confidentiality Ever Be Justified?/Julie B. Goodale, MSW

Case Study X: Outpatient Commitment: Must Mental Disability Preclude Civil Liberty?/ Kimberly Platt, MSW

Case Study Y : Hoarding: Drawing the Line Between Personal and Public Rights/ Kari Kientzy, MSW

Case Study Z : Permanency Planning for Young Children: Are Brief Time Frames Always in the Child's Best Interests? /Maria Melendez, MSW

Case Study AA : Preparing a Child for Death:  Medical and Religious Considerations/ Colette Hottinger, MSW

 

Juliet Rothman, MSW, PhD.                                              

Dr. Rothman received her MSW from Hunter College (CUNY) and her PhD. (in philosophy) from American University in Washington DC. She specialized in ethics, focusing especially on professional ethics.  She taught at National Catholic School of Social Service (CUA) in Washington DC. At UC Berkeley, she has taught  social work practice, diversity-competent social work practice, social work with people with disabilities, death and bereavement, aging, and law and ethics in gerontology in the School of Social Welfare, aging, health and diversity in the School of Public Health, and interdisciplinary teams in the UCB/UCSF Medical School program.  Her professional publications include: From the Front Lines: Student Cases in Social Work Ethics, The Self-Awareness Workbook for Social Workers, Contracting in Clinical Social Work, Stepping Out into the Field: A Field Work Manual for Social Work Students,  Social Work Practice Across Disability, and  Cultural Competence in Process and Practice: Building Bridges. She authored the Social Work Desk Reference’s article on Therapeutic Contracting with Clients. Recent journal articles include Teaching Spirituality: What We Can Teach and How We Can Teach It, and The Challenge of Disability and Access: Reconceptualizing the Role of the Medical Model. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work and the Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation. In the field of bereavement, she has written a child’s bibliotherapy book, A Birthday Present for Daniel, and a book for bereaved parents, The Bereaved Parents’ Survival Guide. 

Dr. Rothman has worked in the field of long-term care with elderly and people with severe disabilities for many years.  With the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Maryland, she has organized county-wide  programs, worked with support groups, and provided individual counseling and therapy, as well as developing guidelines for social work practice with people with multiple sclerosis. 

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