What are some ethical problems that may arise during the process of the social worker’s assessing the “clarity” of a client’s thought processes?
What will be an ideal response?
Cognitive therapies are based on assumptions of “rational” thinking, and the social worker may make mistakes in failing to understand thinking processes associated with some other culture, assuming that his or her own perspective is “rational”, and assessing one’s conclusions about a client’s cognitive processes based on an attempt to (perhaps unwittingly) promote one’s own value system.
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Dr. White of the Quick Stop Counseling Clinic noticed that female clients with eating disorders who were counseled during the hours of 8 to 11:45 a.m. recovered much faster than those who were counseled from 1 to 5 p.m
She jumped to the false conclusion that the time of day of counseling caused a quicker recovery. Dr. Green was more cautious. He noticed that all the clinic staff used the same treatment, but the clinic's female counselors all worked at the clinic in the morning, and male counselors worked in the afternoon. He found that the faster recovery had nothing with the time of day; rather it was due to female clients responding to the treatment with female counselors. What is Dr. White's initial causal relationship called? A) null hypothesis B) spurious statement C) ecological fallacy D) reductionism
Which two effects are confounded in cross-sectional research?
A) age and cohort B) age and time-of-measurement C) cohort and time-of-measurement D) cohort and practice
Which of the following would be considered to be “dumping a client”?
A. Referring a client out for a specific treatment B. Referring a client out due to dual-role relationships C. Referring a client who can no longer pay for services D. All of the above
When conducting cross-cultural research efforts should be made to
find instruments that: A. are normed on a variety of cultural groups B. As long as it has been normed by any group it is fine C. has been created by someone from that cultural group D. by being created by someone from that cultural group will ensure it does not have systematic measuring error.