Deck 2: Ethics and Other Professional Responsibilities for Human Service Workers

Question 1

Describe briefly the reason Tarasoff v Regents of the University of California is considered so important.

Answer 1

​Answers will vary

Question 2

A social service provider's ethical responsibilities to the individual in his or her care include:

A) ​Insisting on his or her solution to the client's problem
B) ​Meeting the client's own needs and best interest
C) ​Sharing personal concerns about his or her own life that are similar to the client's
D) ​Letting the client know of the social service provider's disappointment when the client did not follow the provider's advice

Answer 2

B

Question 3

A care provider would not break a client's confidentiality when:

A) ​State law in the particular case does not include a duty to warn
B) ​The client poses a threat to others
C) ​The court mandates that the social service provider turns over certain information about the client
D) ​Your agency is sued for malpractice

Answer 3

A

Question 4

On a social networking site such as Facebook,a social services provider may discuss a client:

A) ​When the patient's identifying information is removed
B) ​When the site is a private one and not part of the caring institution or agency
C) ​Under no circumstances
D) ​Only with people who do not know the patient

Question 5

What are the 3 components of Informed Consent?

Question 6

When a client is tld about effects,adverse effects,services being offered and any alternatives,this is called what?

Question 7

Guarding an individual's confidentiality means that the human services provider can/should:

A) ​Use an openly dated release of information form
B) ​Discuss the case only with colleagues for their professional opinion with a patient's verbal consent
C) ​Talk about the case with others,leaving out the patient's identifying information
D) ​Discuss the case with others to prevent the person from harming himself or herself

Question 8

Who "owns" the right of privileged communication?

Question 9

Briefly describe 3 of the rights client's have regarding their files under HIPAA.

Question 10

Courts may commit a patient to a care facility without the patient's consent when:

A) ​The patient has a mental illness
B) ​The courts determine that the mentally ill patient must be punished
C) ​The institution provides the patient with the most comprehensive treatment available
D) ​The patient is a risk to himself or herself but refuses to sign a commitment for appropriate treatment

Question 11

The term confidentiality is best described as an ethical and (fill in the blank)concept.

Question 12

Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA)Act,for an agency to share a client's private information,it must:

A) ​Restrict the patient's identifying information if requested by the patient in writing
B) ​Share a person's medical information only orally and never in writing
C) ​Never share a patient's private information outside the agency
D) ​Never allow a patient to make changes to his or her professional records

Question 13

In order for a person to agree to services,he or she must have the capacity to give permission willingly.This patient right is called:

A) ​Comprehension of information
B) ​Informed consent
C) ​Self-determination
D) ​Confidentiality

Question 14

Briefly describe the minimum necessary rule.

Question 15

Name one of the situations where it legally fine to break confidentiality.

Question 16

A social services case manager should avoid a dual relationship with his or her client because:​

A) ​The case manager may not be available to return a favor to the person who did the case manager a favor
B) ​Exchanging favors with a person is inconsequential
C) ​In small communities,the case manager cannot avoid seeing his or her neighbor in contexts other than the professional one
D) ​It creates a conflict of interest for the case manager

Question 17

Ethical practices in the social services are in place because:

A) ​They prevent a civil suit being brought against the human service worker
B) ​They prevent the social human worker from being fired
C) ​They prevent the exploitation of the individuals seeking human services
D) ​Most professions monitor the behavior of their members

Question 18

Name and describe 2 of the four requirements for agencies under HIPAA that protect a client's information.

Question 19

It is an ethical violation to:

A) ​Report on an impaired colleague to a senior professional
B) ​Withhold information about an impaired colleague
C) ​Refuse to treat a client just because you have personal problems that may affect that person
D) ​Discuss your ethical concerns with the service provider in question