SOWK 270 FINAL QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Informed consent consists of 3 elements: - Answers - 1.) Disclosure of information
2.) Voluntariness including the absence of coercion
3.) Competence of capability to make a decision
Things to avoid with informed consent - Answers - Intentionally or unintentionally
deceiving the client about the nature of intervention and depriving the client the freedom
to make fully informed choices about what to do or whether he or she wishes to
participate.
Gert and others view valid and informed consent as: - Answers - 1.) The social worker
has a moral requirement to provide adequate information about treatment to the client
2.) The social worker should not coerce clients into consenting
3.) The social worker must assess the client's competence prior to using the intervention
to which the client consented
An individual is determined competent to make a rational choice if she does not have a
cognitive disability that prevents: - Answers - 1.) understanding
2.) Appreciating relevant information about what is to occur
3.) Coordinating that information with her own values
4.) Not be currently suffering from a volitional disability such as an extreme phobia, that
is interfering with rational decision making
Coercive environments and informed consent: The owner represents either: - Answers -
1.) a barrier to some desired good from the client's perspective
2.) A threat of some variety or harms to the client's life such as deprivation of freedom or
pleasure or pain
Morality framework: Step 1 .1-1.10 - Answers - 1.1 - What moral rules are being
violated?
1.2 - What harms would be caused/violated/prevented?
1.3 - What are the relevant desires/beliefs of the person toward whom the rule is being
violated
1.4 - Is the relationship between the person toward whom the rule is being violated and
the person doing the violation such that the person violating the rule sometimes has a
duty to violate the moral rules without consent?
1.5 - What goods are being promoted by the violation?
1.6 - Is the rule being violated in order to prevent another from violating moral rules
without justification or being weakly justified?
1.7 - Is the rule being violated because a moral rule has been violated?
1.8 - Are there alternative actions?
1.9 - Is the violation being done intentionally or knowingly?
ACCURATE ANSWERS
Informed consent consists of 3 elements: - Answers - 1.) Disclosure of information
2.) Voluntariness including the absence of coercion
3.) Competence of capability to make a decision
Things to avoid with informed consent - Answers - Intentionally or unintentionally
deceiving the client about the nature of intervention and depriving the client the freedom
to make fully informed choices about what to do or whether he or she wishes to
participate.
Gert and others view valid and informed consent as: - Answers - 1.) The social worker
has a moral requirement to provide adequate information about treatment to the client
2.) The social worker should not coerce clients into consenting
3.) The social worker must assess the client's competence prior to using the intervention
to which the client consented
An individual is determined competent to make a rational choice if she does not have a
cognitive disability that prevents: - Answers - 1.) understanding
2.) Appreciating relevant information about what is to occur
3.) Coordinating that information with her own values
4.) Not be currently suffering from a volitional disability such as an extreme phobia, that
is interfering with rational decision making
Coercive environments and informed consent: The owner represents either: - Answers -
1.) a barrier to some desired good from the client's perspective
2.) A threat of some variety or harms to the client's life such as deprivation of freedom or
pleasure or pain
Morality framework: Step 1 .1-1.10 - Answers - 1.1 - What moral rules are being
violated?
1.2 - What harms would be caused/violated/prevented?
1.3 - What are the relevant desires/beliefs of the person toward whom the rule is being
violated
1.4 - Is the relationship between the person toward whom the rule is being violated and
the person doing the violation such that the person violating the rule sometimes has a
duty to violate the moral rules without consent?
1.5 - What goods are being promoted by the violation?
1.6 - Is the rule being violated in order to prevent another from violating moral rules
without justification or being weakly justified?
1.7 - Is the rule being violated because a moral rule has been violated?
1.8 - Are there alternative actions?
1.9 - Is the violation being done intentionally or knowingly?
