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Activity 2: Case Evaluation

1. The statements evaluate the ethics of situations involving mental health professionals. Statement 1 about minimizing potential harm is deemed ethical. Statements 2 through 5 involving lack of respect for autonomy, inappropriate sexual relationships with clients, abrupt termination of treatment, and attempted bribery are deemed unethical.

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Activity 2: Case Evaluation

1. The statements evaluate the ethics of situations involving mental health professionals. Statement 1 about minimizing potential harm is deemed ethical. Statements 2 through 5 involving lack of respect for autonomy, inappropriate sexual relationships with clients, abrupt termination of treatment, and attempted bribery are deemed unethical.

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Activity 2: Case Evaluation

Instruction: Identify if the statements below are ethical or unethical


ETHICAL 1. Mental health professionals strive to benefit those with whom we work, while at
the same time taking care to ensure that the potential for damage is eliminated or at least
minimized to the greatest extent possible.
UNETHICAL 2. Respect for autonomy is accepted by mental health professionals in Western
society, given that an underlying goal of psychotherapy and counseling is to move those with
whom we work toward greater self-reliance and self-determination.
UNETHICAL 3. A psychologist used the services of a sex worker, but had insufficient cash to
pay her fee. He left his laptop computer containing over 600 unencrypted client files from his
employing agency as collateral while he went to find an ATM. When he returned 15 minutes
later, the prostitute and laptop were gone. The psychologist reported the theft without mention of
the associated sexual activity, but eventually replaced his initial false account with an accurate
one. The laptop was recovered from a pawn shop. Nevertheless, the psychologist lost his job and
his license to practice.
UNETHICAL 4. When questioned by an ethics committee about a sexual affair with a client he
had terminated only three months earlier, the therapist wrongly asserted that the ethics code of
the American Psychological Association specifically allows sex with former clients upon
termination of professional services.
UNETHICAL 5. A clinical social worker abruptly terminated treatment with a client who was
still struggling with depression and alcohol dependence. The following day, he called his just-
terminated client and invited her to his apartment to watch a movie. The social worker served
popcorn and wine and, during the movie, sexually assaulted her. The client told her minister
about the incident, who contacted the social worker for an explanation. The social worker offered
the minister a new computer if he could convince the client to refrain from calling the
authorities.

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