Preface. Introduction. I:DEBATES ABOUT PRACTICE.
1. Should Clients Have Access to their Mental Health Records? Yes: Sheldon Gelman.
No: Michele Winchester-Vega.
2. Is it unethical for professional helpers to encourage or allow clients to become dependent on them? Yes: Jacinta Marschke.
No: Sharon Freedberg.
3. Does reliance on diagnostic labels help clients more than it hurts them? Yes: Larry Icard.
No: Sheri F. Seyfried.
4. Is the use of fringe therapiesthose lacking substantial theoretical or scientific meritunethical? Yes: Norman Cobb.
No: Cathleen Jordan.
5. Should social workers enroll as preferred providers with for-profit managed care groups? Yes: Robert Gorden.
No: Paul M. Kline
II:DEBATES ABOUT THE USE OF COERCION.
6. Does the goal of preventing suicide justify placing suicidal clients in care? Yes: Andre Ivanof.
No: Tomi Gomory.
7. Does coercion have a legitimate place in the treatment of legally competent clients? Yes: Ray Liles.
No: Carol H Meyer.
III:DEBATES ABOUT SELF REGULATION OF THE PROFESSION.
8. Is the public adequately protected from incompetent practitioners through licensing? Yes: Joan E. Esser-Stuart. & Paul H. Stuart.
No: Charles Atherton.
9. Should the findings of ethics hearings be released to the public? Yes: William Butterfield.
No: Colleen Galambos.
10. Is the NASW Code of ethics an effective guide for practitioners? Yes: Kathleen E Murphy.
No: Sandra Kopels.
11. Do the ethical standards of the profession carry a higher authority than the law? Yes: Rufus Sylvester Lynch & Jacquelyn Mitchell.
No: Jacquelyn Mitchell & Rufus Sylvester Lynch.
12. Is the Code of Ethics as applicable to agency executives as it is to direct service practitioners? Yes: Elaine Congress.
No: Burt Gummer.
13. Are professional helpers obliged to talk to a colleague about his or her unethical behavior and, if that is ineffective, report the matter to peers or higher authority? Yes: Frederick G. Reamer.
No: Max Siporin.
IV:DEBATES ABOUT PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING.
14. Does professional education adequately prepare students to resolve ethical problems of practice? Yes: Wendy Kugelman.
No: Frederick G. Reamer.
15. Are professional practitioners ethically bound to keep abreast of the research literature in their respective fields? Yes: Cheryl Richey.
No: Sung Sil Lee Sohng.
V:DEBATES ABOUT SPECIAL CLIENT POPULATIONS.
16. Is it ethical to presume the competency of runaway/homeless children who are seeking care at a runaway and homeless shelter? Yes: Joanne M. Remy & Linda Glassman.
No: Karen M. Staller & Stuart A. Kirk.
17. Is the number of social workers in private practice a measure of how far the profession has strayed from Its historic obligation to serve the poor? Yes: Gary Lowe.
No: P. Nelson Reid.
18. Is there a strong ethical case for disallowing or discouraging interracial adoptions? Yes: Raymond L. Bending & Teresa C. Jones.
No: Christine T. Lowery.
19. Are private practitioners obligated to serve at least some clients who cannot afford their customary fees? Yes: Kimberly Strom-Gottfried.
No: Gary Labella & Betsy Owens
