Chapter 5, Values and Ethical Dilemmas Video Solutions, An Introduction to Human Services: Policy and Practice

Problem 1

Although self-determination is an important value in human service work, it is often hard to follow in certain kinds of work. In what ways could self-determination be maximized in the following situations if you were the human service worker?
a. A parent has been reported as being abusive to a child.
b. A person who was driving while drunk has been mandated to get treatment.
c. A delinquent is on probation.

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Problem 2

A woman says she would rather die than go through the debilitating processes that are inevitable with her illness. She is fifty years old and has early-onset Alzheimer's disease. What are your thoughts on this?

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Problem 3

You are given the job of leading a discussion between pro-choice and pro-life people. How do you structure this discussion?

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Problem 4

In some open adoption arrangements, the biological parent and the adoptive parents continue to have contact with each other after the adoption, and the biological parent is allowed to have frequent contact with the child. What are the possible advantages and disadvantages of this arrangement? Do the same issues that apply to open adoption also apply to artificial insemination, when the child who is born as a result of the insemination is allowed to contact his or her father?

Josee Pacheco

Numerade Educator

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Problem 5

Why do you think that few social agencies have institutionalized a process to get regular feedback from clients?

Alexander Burbelo

Numerade Educator