Exam 5: The Ethics and Politics of Social Work Research

What ethical guidelines is/are violated in the following study? A child therapist thinks the new, untested psychotherapy she recently developed is more effective than physician-prescribed medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. To research the effectiveness of her therapy, she tells parents that the therapy replaces the need for the medications and then provides the therapy to half of her clients, without telling parents about the study or which treatment group their child is in.​

Which of the following statements is/are true about the Tuskegee syphilis study?​

Which of the following questions should be answered in an informed consent form?​

Ethical issues are distinguished from political issues in research in that​

When names are removed from questionnaires and are replaced with identification numbers so that only the researcher can later link a response to a name, the researcher should tell the respondent that the information is​

Illustrate how ethics and politics affect social work research. ting the findings.​

The ethics as well as the politics of research hinge on ideological points of view.​

Concealing the nature of the study from those being observed violates the norm of voluntary participation.​

Choose an ethical issue presented in this chapter, create a research situation in which this issue could arise, and tell how you would handle it.​

Identify five commonly recommended guidelines for attempting to avoid bias and insensitivity regarding gender or culture in a study.​

The PRIMARY ethical research issue raised by the Milgram study was​

Explain why bias and insensitivity regarding gender and culture in a study's methodology can be relevant to the ethics of the study.​

Ethical obligations to one's colleagues in the scientific community​

The quality of an ethically controversial study's research design is never considered relevant to whether that study can be justified.​

Which of the following questions should be answered in an informed consent form?​

Which of the following statements is/are true about IRB panelists or support staff?​

Which of the following statements is/are true about the dilemma involving the right to receive services versus the responsibility to evaluate service effectiveness?​

Which of the following statements CORRECTLY describes the social research profession?​

Which of the following does NOT harm subjects?

Institutional Review Boards [IRBs]:​