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Week four assignment: Professionalism report Michelle Leasure Swrk200/ Intro to social work Jeremy Christensen 11/15/2023

The ethical dilemma with my client providing me with a gift during the holidays is that it is the potential for exploitation and distortion of the professional For for exploitation and distortion professional relationship. My responsibility for professional behavior as the social worker in this certain scenario is to find out if accepting the gift will the break break the accept NASW rules or not. The NASW Code does have provisions related to gifts. Standard 1.06(a) advises social workers to “avoid conflicts of interest that interfere with the exercise of professional discretion and impartial judgment.” Standard 1.06(b) instructs social workers not to “take unfair advantage of any professional relationship.” Standard 1.06(c) says that social workers should set “clear, appropriate, and culturally sensitive boundaries” with clients. As a social worker, your primary commitment is to your client (Standard 1.01). The main interest to consider is the impact of gift-giving on the client. If gift-giving is an authentic expression of the client’s gratitude, then the principle of self-determination suggests that social workers should honor the client’s wishes. The client may feel a sense of pride and satisfaction from being able to thank the worker with a gift. However, if the client feels exploited or manipulated —or if the client receives inappropriate services as a result of gift-giving—then encouraging or accepting the gift would be unethical. The ethical values and principles from the NASW that are involved in this scenario are Importance of Human

Relationships – Rejecting the gift may taint the rapport you’ve built, perhaps over several years, or leave the client feeling like you are personally rejecting her. Integrity – Part of our job is to serve as role-models by maintaining healthy and appropriate boundaries in professional relationships. Another ethical dilemma that I have encountered as a social worker is when I was working with two other welfare workers, we had a 16 year old 16-year-old child come in who was pregnant an wanted an above to on. The other two workers didn’t believe in abortions abortions, so they didn’t feel comfortable working with her. This is an ethical dilemma because per the NASW policy statement Family Planning and Reproductive Health, which states support for clients to make their own decisions about sexuality and reproduction. My professional behavior as a social worker is to respond to my coworkers by reminding them of the policy and how we are supposed to let the client make her own choices even if we don’t agree with the clients clients’ choices. The ethical values and principles that are involved in this scenario are social justice and dignity and worth of a person, both of which strongly support the rights of individuals to access education and services connected to sexual and reproductive health, as does the social work ethical principle of client self-determination. One more ethical dilemma that I have encountered while working as a social worker is when one of my clients who owned a successful lawn care business fell upon hard times. He still wanted services but could no longer afford them them, so he offered me law care service in exchange for me to continue to provide him with services. This was an ethical dilemma because social workers should avoid accepting goods or services from clients as payment for professional services. Bartering arrangements, particularly involving services, create the potential for conflicts of interest, exploitation, and inappropriate boundaries in social workers’ relationships with clients. Social workers should explore and may participate in bartering only in very limited circumstances when it can be demonstrated that such arrangements are an accepted practice among professionals in the local community, considered to be essential for the provision of services, negotiated without coercion, and entered into at the client’s initiative and with the client’s informed consent. Social workers who accept goods or services from clients as payment for professional services assume the full burden of demonstrating that this arrangement will not be detrimental to the client or the professional relationship. My professional behavior as a social worker to respond to this particular scenario was to politely decline the man’s offer but let him know I would be available when he was ready to continue services and could afford it. I also provided him with information about a couple of free places that offered different services. Content Points Available Points Earned Additional Comments:

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150 X/150 Select one of the following formats for your assessment:  A 700- to 1,050-word written report  A 2- to 5-minute video or screencast of yourself with a transcript of your speech.  You may write a script first then read it aloud or you may record yourself speaking and use a tool like Otter.ai or another audio-to-text transcription tool to generate a transcript of your speech. (If you use a tool to transcribe your speech, be sure to revise any errors in translation before submitting the completed transcript.)  List citations with your transcript.  If you record a video of yourself, either by appearing on screen or by recording a voiceover, paste the link to your completed video with your script. For your assessment, describe the professional behaviors expected of social workers in each of the 3 selected scenarios as if you were explaining to the ethics board how you handled these ethical dilemmas.  Identify the values and ethical principles from the NASW Code of Ethics relevant to each scenario and explain why they are relevant in each case.  Explain why each scenario is an ethical dilemma. Identify the ethical principles involved.  Identify your responsibility for professional behavior as the social worker in each scenario. Explain the course of action needed to address the dilemma in each case and how you handled the conflicting values. Cite any sources that you used to support your responses according to APA guidelines. Submit your assessment and include a link to your video if applicable. 150 Good work covering the questions and requirements as listed, drawing from personal experience, demonstrating a grasp of the material and answering all the questions in detail. Organization/Development Points Available 25 Points Earned X/25 Additional Comments:  The paper is 350 to 700 words in length.  The introduction provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major points.  The conclusion is logical, flows, and reviews the major points. 25 Length of the assignment was good, well done on the intro and conclusion. Mechanics Points Available 25 Points Earned X/25 Additional Comments:  The paper—including the title page, reference page, tables, and any appendices—is consistent with APA guidelines as directed by the facilitator. The paper is laid out with effective use of headings, font styles, and white space.  Rules of grammar, usage, and punctuation are followed; spelling is correct. 23 APA formatting met the requirements, grammar and spelling were great other than noted with tracked changes and

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