Assignment:

ETHICS SCREEN: Application to Case Example of Meta Vishnick

Case Study - Mrs. Vishnick and Meta - Social work with other clients

Consider a social worker or other gerontology professional who is assigned to work with this family around their service needs. Please label all of your responses

I. What are the Personal, Professional, and Societal Values involved in this case situation?

1. What personal values of a social worker might surface in this situation?

2. What societal values might emerge in this situation?

3. What social work professional values are a part of the situation?

4. Identify and discuss one ethical dilemma that would result in a clash between any of these values?

II. Consider ways the a Social Worker might work with this family to address their current challenges.

5. Consider the various theories that were discussed in the book and the lecture in Module 2 (e.g., ecological perspective, family theories, environmental press)? Choose one and discuss how it can help you explain and predict the stress that the family is experiencing currently.

6. Describe one way that a social worker might help this family relieve the stress that they are experiencing.

7. How would this help the family? Next, consider if there are any possible negative consequences that might occur as a result of this particular approach?

III. Alternative courses of action

8. Choose any of the ethical concepts and principles that were part of your reading and the podcast and discuss how this might be associated with this case example?

9. How could you minimize any potential harm that results from this ethical principle within this family situation?