MSW 698A: COMP EXAM COURSE
Ethical Decision Making Model - Answers - 1. Identify the problem and all persons,
groups, organizations involved in the situation;
2. Determine who should be involved in the decision making;
3. Identify values involved in the situation - client, family, worker, professional, group,
institutional, societal;
4. Identify the goals and objectives which may resolve or reduce the problem;
5. Identify alternative interventions to reach the goals and effectiveness of each of these
alternative strategies;
6. Select and implement the most appropriate strategy;
7. Monitor the implementation of the strategy and evaluate the results.
Updated Tarasoff Ruling - Mandated Reporting - Answers - - The court expanded the
definition of Civil Code § 43.92 to "include family members as persons covered within
the statute who, upon communication to a therapist of a serious threat of physical
violence against a reasonably identifiable victim, would trigger a duty to warn."
- "A therapist has a duty to warn if, and only if, the threat which the therapist has learned
- whether from the patient or a family member - actually leads him or her to believe the
patient poses a risk of grave bodily injury to another person."
- The expanded duty from now on applies to credible threats received from the patient,
or the patient's family, however, the court made clear that its decision did not go beyond
"family members."
- Current Judicial Council instructions state that a therapist has to BOTH notify the
intended victim and the law enforcement in order to receive immunity
- The current duty can also be discharged by hospitalizing a patient
Words not to use in documentation.. - Answers - - Client records should not include
subjective or speculative observation, or any extraneous and irrelevant information.
- it appears
- it seems
Ethical Decision Making Model - Answers - 1. Identify the problem and all persons,
groups, organizations involved in the situation;
2. Determine who should be involved in the decision making;
3. Identify values involved in the situation - client, family, worker, professional, group,
institutional, societal;
4. Identify the goals and objectives which may resolve or reduce the problem;
5. Identify alternative interventions to reach the goals and effectiveness of each of these
alternative strategies;
6. Select and implement the most appropriate strategy;
7. Monitor the implementation of the strategy and evaluate the results.
Updated Tarasoff Ruling - Mandated Reporting - Answers - - The court expanded the
definition of Civil Code § 43.92 to "include family members as persons covered within
the statute who, upon communication to a therapist of a serious threat of physical
violence against a reasonably identifiable victim, would trigger a duty to warn."
- "A therapist has a duty to warn if, and only if, the threat which the therapist has learned
- whether from the patient or a family member - actually leads him or her to believe the
patient poses a risk of grave bodily injury to another person."
- The expanded duty from now on applies to credible threats received from the patient,
or the patient's family, however, the court made clear that its decision did not go beyond
"family members."
- Current Judicial Council instructions state that a therapist has to BOTH notify the
intended victim and the law enforcement in order to receive immunity
- The current duty can also be discharged by hospitalizing a patient
Words not to use in documentation.. - Answers - - Client records should not include
subjective or speculative observation, or any extraneous and irrelevant information.
- it appears
- it seems
