1. Presenter: Jennifer D. Street, LCSW Class Meeting Week Two

2.  Welcome

3.  Learning Goals By the end of class today, students will be able to:  Identify and discuss current challenges facing the social work profession and be able to give examples of these challenges in direct practice.  Use self-reflection to identify which social work roles will be most challenging for them as a professional.  Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving skills by analyzing hypothetical ethical dilemmas.  Exhibit micro clinical skills and mastery of Eliminate recording features.

4.  Agenda  Questions regarding syllabus or assignments  Questions from last week’s reading  Chapter 1 Highlights  Chapter 1 Discussion  Chapter 2 Highlights  Chapter 2 Discussion  Chapter 2 Exercise  Questions  Wrap-Up

5.  Chapter One Highlight

6.  Chapter One Discussion

7.  Chapter 1  In your groups:  Discuss current challenges facing the profession and examine how they may affect you as you work in the profession.  Managed Care  Devolution of social policies & programs (pros and cons)  Changing political response to poverty  Increasingly complex client challenges  Complicated credentialing  Identify the social work roles you anticipate as being most comfortable with when you begin your practicum. Which ones will be least comfortable? What do you know about yourself to come to these conclusions?  Therapist  Educator  Broker  Case Manager  Advocate  Group Leader  Mediator

8.  Chapter Two Highlight

9.  Loenburg’s Model for Ethical Decision-Making  Be aware of personal, societal, & professional values  Explore ethical options  Identify any competing value systems and ways to resolve the conflict  Identify the least harm option  Evaluate efficiency, effectiveness and ethicalness  Evaluate long-term ethical consequences

10.  Ethical Hierarchy  Protection of Life  Equality and Inequality  Autonomy and Freedom  Least Harm  Quality of Life  Privacy and Confidentiality  Truthfulness and Full disclosure

11.  Potential Ethical Violations  Failure to obtain and/or document client informed consent  Abandoning a client  Departure from recognized therapeutic practices  Practicing outside of one’s competence  Inappropriate client diagnosis  Eliciting repressed or false memories from client  Poor management of transference/countertransference  Sexual misconduct  Failure to intervene with a dangerous client

12.  Chapter Two Exercise

13.  Group activity:  In group you will review the assigned case study and discuss how to handle the situation using the ethical hierarchy model given in the text on page 63-68. Case 3, 4, and 5 are in your eCollege email as an attachment.

14.  Closing  No DQ this week  Next week Read chapter 3 and complete DQ 3.

15.  Questions?

16.  Have a great week!