Transcript ACSW Standards of Practice

Ethics Road Show:Part Deux
Older and Wiser?
Fall 2008
Duane Massing
Elaine Spencer
Plan for the Day
Introductions – our stories, your tables
New Code of Ethics: 6 Value Statements - Elaine
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- tables and discussion
Ethics – The Big Story - Duane
Coming to/being your best ethical self - Duane
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- table work and comments
What is an Area Coordinator? – Lori Sigurdson
ACSW
Changes in New Standards of Practice – Elaine
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Highlights and additions/deletions
Ethics cases – Elaine and Duane
- table work and report back
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Challenges and Excellence (moral tragedies)
Healing the World, ending with hope - all
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Ethics
 “Ethical
behaviour comes from a
social worker’s individual
commitment to engage in ethical
practice” CASW 2005
 Ethics is the branch of philosophy
concerned with living a good life,
being a good person, and doing the
right thing. (Freeman, 1999)
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Code of Ethics (CASW, 2005)
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Value 1: Respect for the Inherent
Dignity and Worth of Persons
Value 2: Pursuit of Social Justice
Value 3: Service to Humanity
Value 4: Integrity in Professional
Practice
Value 5: Confidentiality in Professional
Practice
Value 6: Competence in Professional
Practice
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ACSW Standards of
Practice *
2007 Revisions – Overview
*Thanks to Alison MacDonald for
this outline
General
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Most 1999 standards retained
Standards from 1983 Code of Ethics
Reorganization
Guiding principles
Standards are the minimum
Code (2005 CASW) is aspirational
Standards are used in legal issues
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New Definitions
 Supervision
Administrative vs. practice
supervision
 Consultation
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 Colleague
 Mutual/mutuality
 Organization
 Reasonable
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Revised Definitions
 Dual/multiple
role relationship
 Informed consent
 Professional relationship
 Professional services
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General Practice Requirements
 Identification
of registration
 Professional performance
 Accountability to the workplace
 Conflict of interest
 Continuity
of care
 Solicitation
of business
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Fees and statements
 Disclosure
of costs
 Reasonableness of fee
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Record Keeping/Confidentiality
 Records
 Disclosure
 Access
 Workplace
to
records
 Maintenance
and disposal
settings
 Multiple
clients
 FOIPP
 Confidentiality
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Competence
 Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
 Cultural
 Limits
Competence
on practice
 Technology
in practice
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Professional Relationships
 Dignity
of clients
 Dignity of
supervisees
Exploitation
 Impaired ability
to perform
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 Dual/multiple
role
relationships
(esp. 126)
 Exceptions
(esp. 130-131)
 Prohibited
relationship
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Professional Accountability
 Within
the profession (esp. 139-140)
 Other
professions
 False or misleading information
 Aiding
unauthorized practice
 Self care and protection of the
public
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What makes for Social Work
Excellence?
 Social
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work excellence
Needs and conditions
 Barriers,
obstacles, challenges
Organizational – policy/practices
 Moral distress, residue, suffering
 Impairment – a loaded term
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 Internal
and external sources
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Professional Practice
Environments
 Client
Outcomes
 Professional Performance
control over workload/practice
 leadership
 support and recognition
 professional development
 innovation and creativity
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Coming to your best
ethical self*
 Self
Care
Vicarious and secondary trauma
 Professional and Personal Boundaries
 “Insider” social work
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 Harmful
 Neutral
 Salutary
dual relationships (Reamer)
*Thank for Duane Massing’s words
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Managing Multiple Relationships:
A Framework for Decision-Making*
*Gripton and Valentich’s 10 Factor Model:
1. Vulnerability of the
client
2. Power Differences
3. Risks for the Client
4. Risks for the
Practitioner
5. Benefits for the
Client
6. Benefits for the
Practitioner
7. Clarity of
Professional Role
Boundaries
8. Specificity or
Diffuseness of
Professional Roles
9. Access to
Alternative Sources
of Professional
Services
10.Community Values
and Cultural Norms
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Components of Ethical Practice
© BJ Antle (2005)
Context
Relevant laws
Workplace culture/policies
Sensitivity and Empathy Intersect all Spheres
Human Rights
Charter
UN conventions
Prov/Terr Codes
Client
Culture and values
Priorities/resources
Social Worker
Ethical orientation
Codes/standards
Risk tolerance
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Social Work – Ethical
Equilibrium
 Context
Principles
 Self
determination
 Social justice
 Special needs of
vulnerable,
oppressed
 Values of client/
client system
 Hardships
 Resources
 Expectations
of
workplace and
profession
 Location
 Culture
 Physical factors
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Ethical Dilemmas and
Decision-Making
 An
ethical dilemma is a situation in
which professional duties and
obligations, rooted in core values,
clash.
 Ethical dilemmas involve a choice
between two or more moral
imperatives, in which there is no
clear choice.
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Standard of Care
 What
would an ordinary,
reasonable and prudent social
worker,
 with the same or similar training
and experience,
 do in the same or similar
circumstances.
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Group Work – Case
Examples
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Read through case example.
Reactions? Gut level responses?
What are the standards issues?
Ethics issues? (see ethics models)
Supports for social worker? Needed?
Required? Available?
Supports for complainant?
Ideas for resolution?
Prevention strategies?
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Reflections, Commitments and
Pledges
 Take
a moment to think about
what you require, (from self,
organization, acsw, colleagues, loved
ones, the universe)
 what you wish for
 what you want to maintain
 what you need
 what you are prepared to do
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 To
continue coming to/being your
best ethical self.
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