Case study on Ethics
Introduction
Prepare an introductory paragraph to engage the reader. You could explain why you chose this case, describe why you think this case is relevant to your future social work practice, or provide an overview of the paper. You could use a relevant quotation or another device to stimulate the reader’s interest in your paper.]
1 describe Ethical Issues
[State the ethical issue, including a summary of key facts, important information that is not yet known, relevant ethical/legal/agency obligations, and an open-ended question summarizing the key issue to be analyzed in this paper]
2. Determine Appropriate Help
3. Think Critically
[Provide your analysis of the main ethical issue using at least two different approaches to ethical analysis –legalism, deontology/principlism, teleology/utilitarianism, virtue ethics, or another approach that you have drawn from scholarly ethics literature. You may also identify your overall ethical goals (which may include conflicting outcomes) and multiple perspectives (e.g., client, social worker, physician, administrator). This will be the longest section of the paper and should include the most scholarly references.]
4. Conflict Resolution
[Given the case facts, identify how there might be a conflict between the social worker and the client, social worker’s supervisor, other professionals, or other stakeholders from your case scenario. Describe what type of forum and approach to conflict resolution that you would use to help resolve the conflict (e.g., interest-based mediation, court hearing, agency appeals process, licensing board investigation, case conference, supervision using Socratic inquiry, debate, dialogue). Explain your rationale for choosing this conflict resolution approach. Explain also how the conflict would be resolved using this conflict resolution approach.]
5. Plan and Implement Decision
[Given the resolution to the ethical issue described above, describe your plan for implementing the decision. Who would be responsible for which tasks? How would the social worker or others monitor implementation? What types of ethical or practical issues may arise during implementation? How could the social worker or other stakeholders pre-empt or deal with these implementation issues?]
6. Evaluate and Follow-Up
[How should the social worker evaluate the effectiveness of the way that the stakeholders managed the ethical issue raised by this case? What criteria should they consider to determine whether they dealt with the issues in an ethical manner? What type of follow-up should the social worker consider if the plan is not implemented in an effective manner? Consider both micro and macro perspectives for evaluation and follow-up.]
Conclusion
[Summarize your key learning from this assignment or provide other conclusions that identify key take-away points that the reader could consider.]
References
[List references that you cite in this paper, using APA format for APA formatting help, please see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/1/ ]
