1. What are the most difficult ethical dilemmas you face? I work as a Child Protective Service Supervisor so I have faced many difficult ethical dilemmas. The one that keeps me up at night is the removal of teenagers from their homes. When children become teenagers, they have built peer relationships that are nearly as important has their biological ties to their families. I speak to this from personal experience as my best friend was removed from her home in our 11th grade year and I didn’t see her again until I was past 30 years old. Sometimes, it is difficult to understand if the safety of a child outweighs their need for those strong community and peer relationships. We recently had two teen boys who were living with friends, there …show more content…
One of the teens was under a truancy petition and when it was reported to him that the boys were living with friends, he ordered they be placed in care immediately. To me, this was an ethical dilemma. Knowing that it is so very difficult to find foster homes for teens, especially in their own communities, I knew this would end in them being placed in a facility. Legally, however, I was bound by the court to remove these children from all the people they had relationships with. This was heartbreakingly hard to do; however, legally I bound to remove and did so. Ethically, I feel the Judge should have allowed us to work within our community to keep these two boys with the people who they were connected to. The boys, by the way, are in a facility. To me, the most difficult ethical decisions I make on a daily basis are the ones that make a change in a person’s life. The other difficult ethical decisions I make usually deal with low functioning families who are unknowingly putting their children at risk. In almost every case, you can see the parental love for the child and that the customers are not …show more content…
While relatives always receive preference in placement choice, it is sometimes concerning that we are placing children in homes that are as inappropriate as the homes they were removed from. The State may complete an abbreviated home study on these families which the family may pass; however, we usually know many things about the family that are either to their credit or not to their credit. It is very hard to fight for best interest of a child in the face of an approved home study and there must be a lot of solid evidence produced to show that while the structure of the home has been approved and they have no criminal/cps background, this family is not in the best interest of a child. This issue can and has ended in several extended court hearings that makes it hard to obtain permanency for the
An ethical decision that I was faced with within my professional career was about a month ago. I’m a dental assistant so I work with people every day and I have to deal with people and their personal bias. I had a patient that was underage and she come into the operatory by herself. I asked the patient did she have a guardian with her and she said “yes”, and she started to inform me that her grandfather didn’t like African American people. At that point I was faced with an ethical dilemma to not inform her grandfather about the treatment or to faced her grandfather, that I knew didn’t care for African American people. The problem was very difficult because I didn’t know how her grandfather was going to react toward me as a professional person.
How would you resolve this ethical conflict? List three separate steps you could take to address this issue. These must be separate steps, e.g. educating the family about 3 topics counts as only one step—that is patient education. Be specific about what you would do, e.g., if you choose patient education as one step, explain what information you would cover and how you think it will address the issue. (2 points/step x 3=6 points for this question)
Until, she failed to perform simple probation stipulations. Sadly, in my opinion, the surviving twin should have been taken from Melissa through child protective services at the time of birth. As physicians, and as supported, they were allowed to overlook the ability of Melissa’s parenting and do what is best for twin A, and Melissa. Which then, Melissa should have faced her punishment received by court orders. Now let me remind you, Melissa did not comply with her stipulations and her child was removed after the
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An example of an ethical dilemma would be a client who refuses to take their blood pressure medication however based on autonomy they have the right to. The nurse may not be able to follow the principles of beneficence and autonomy at the same time because respecting patient autonomy means the nurse is not able to fulfill the obligation to “do good” for the patient. However, in this case, if the patient was competent the principle of autonomy would take priority. Abortion is another example of an ethical dilemma faced in the medical profession. For instance, some doctors are against abortion, yet there are certain others who have no problem at all doing it.
Advocating for diverse patients is important. In this paper I will be discuss a personal ethical dilemma in which I have encountered. I will give an objective interpretation of both my side as well as my patient’s side of the dilemma. Then I will describe the conflicting values and beliefs that I and the patient had. Then I will give the information I was lacking concerning the patient’s culture. Lastly, I will define culturally congruent care.
Each profession has their own way of navigating ethical dilemmas, which are problems that don’t have a clear ethical/moral choice. The ethical decision
Social services focus on sending kids away from abusive homes and jumping from one group home or institution to another instead of focusing on building families back up and solving the actual issue. A child can legally become uprooted from their home due to multiple things. The primary guardian has a drug problem, the living quarters obtain eviction, too many children in one group home, physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect of any kid, incarceration, abandonment, truancy, death of primary guardian, voluntarily placed, the child continues to commit juvenile offenses or a runaway. Almost the majority of the latter listed can prevail placement in foster care. Instead of wasting another life in the failing system of foster care, child welfare can create programs to promote children’s rights.
There is a high percentage of foster care youth that have been in contact with the law after they turned 18. A study shows that “one-third of the former foster care children who were tracked in three Midwest states suffered a “high level” of involvement with the criminal justice system” (What Percentage). California carried out a state survey with the help of California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and the California Senate Office of Research (SOR); they surveyed 2,564 inmates. Fourteen percent of the inmates said that they have been in foster care at some point in their life. There are many options for foster children to live; they can live with a relative, family friend, foster family, or in a group home. From the inmates surveyed, fifty-one percent of them lived in a group home and two percent lives with his/her family friend. Forty percent of them were in foster care for one to five years while twenty-five percent of the surveyed inmates were in foster care less than a year. When the prisoners left foster care most left when they were prreteens or teenagers. Fifty percent were between the age of thirteen and seventeen years old while eight percent was released when they were under the age of six. But there are many reasons why they left foster care. Some reasons why they leave is because they go live with family friends, they are adopted, reunified with family, sent to a
The dilemma of juvenile incarceration is a problem that thankfully has been declining, but still continues to be an ethical issue. The de-incarceration trend has coincided with a decrease in crime. It is hopeful that our nation is changing the approach to the treatment of juveniles in the criminal justice system. It means we know what to do and what is working, now just to follow through and continue the change to creating a juvenile justice system that is truly rehabilitative and gives youth tools to be able to be positive members of
Have you ever had your child taken by Children’s Aid Society, or removed from your home? If yes, do you mind explaining why (parent only)?
If a person was to ask the average student what their learning style was, they would likely ponder because most students would not know what their learning style is. This is the case for Jeremy, a college student who discovered that the learning styles were broken down into three categories: Auditory, Visual, and Tactile. According to Educationplannner.org (2011), an auditory learner retains knowledge more efficiently by listening, Visual is learning through reading and writing, and tactile is learning by physical touching. Through a learning styles assessment from Educatoinplanner.edu (2011), Jeremy found that he is: twenty percent tactile, thirty-five percent auditory, and forty-five percent visual. Three other learning styles assessments
It is my belief that in order for someone in the social work profession to serve vulnerable populations it was intended to serve, it is imperative to use critical thinking and ethical decision making in tandem to achieve the optimal result. The balance is a delicate and often complex. It requires a close examination or critically thinking, of all the issues not just within yourself, but the community as a whole, the individuals within it, and the client population that the social work serves. The social work profession is built on the foundation that each individual has equal worth and individual rights to self determination. Some mistakenly believe that this means simply doing what is right, but then the decision making is not based on critical thinking and ethics but one’s personal beliefs and does not keep in guidelines with the ethical guidelines that governs social work practice. As stated on the web site for The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University (2009):
Everyone in this world has experienced an ethical dilemma in different situations and this may arise between one or more individuals. Ethical dilemma is a situation where people have to make complex decisions and are influenced based on personal interests, social environment or norms, and religious beliefs (“Strategic Leadership”, n.d.). Leaders and managers in the company should set guidelines to ensure employees are aware and have a better chance to solve and make ethical decisions. Employees are also responsible for understanding their ethical obligations in order to maintain a positive work environment. The purpose of this case study is to identify the dilemma and analyze different decisions to find ways on how a person should act ethically when left with an ethical dilemma.
And frequently people will feel uncomfortable when they are mandated to decide on difficult decisions. For instance, the ethical options the police officer patrolling a remote area near the coast line during a fast approaching storm and tidal surge, who receives an urgent radio message to help evacuate a mother with her children from tidal havoc, and unfortunately has his narrow way blocked by another individual who can only be rescued by the fire department and EMS (Fleming, 2010).