A 25-year-old man who is seeing you for mental health counseling tells you that his psychiatrist has
submitted paperwork to the Department of Motor Vehicles that will restrict his right to drive. He tells you that at his
next appointment with the doctor he is going to “show him how it feels to lose independence.” He further states,
“I’m a very good shot.”
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: Students' answers will vary. Social workers bear some responsibility to notify potential victims and take
action to safeguard people a client might harm. This duty to warn and protect, derived from the same human rights
that warrant reporting crimes against humanity, means that helping professionals sometimes take action to protect
the lives of others who are or could be in danger. Of course, accurate prediction of future dangerousness is hardly a
science. Despite the risk of false positives—concluding that people are dangerous when they actually are not—the
safety of others sometimes outweighs the rights of clients to privacy and confidentiality (VandeCreek & Knapp,
2001; Woody, 1997).
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a. feedback loops refer to escalating quarreling patterns between spouses b. negative feedback is corrective, adjusting the input and returning the system to a steady state c. positive feedback is corrective, adjusting the input and returning the system to a steady state d. information processing refers to the set of family rules developed through the life cycle
Which of the following is often a limitation of using focus groups?
A) People won't talk in a natural setting like a focus group. B) People in focus groups do not comment on what others in the group said. C) People feel more empowered, especially marginalized groups in society. D) In focus groups everyone always comes to total agreement, there is no diversity of opinion. E) Focus groups produce fewer ideas than occur in individual interviews.
Principle 6 of Loewenberg and Dolgoff's "Ethical Principles Screen" is:
A) ?Privacy B) ?Quality of life C) ?Truthfulness D) ?Least harm
A generalist practitioner performing the role of _____ links client systems to needed resources
a. Case manager b. Broker c. Advocate d. Facilitator