Each team member will write a 350-to 500-word paper on a different situation, which could be considered crossing boundaries between client and caseworker and could become an ethical violation.
Combine each team member’s paper into one team paper.
Include an introduction and a conclusion or summary on your team’s paper on Boundary Issues, have one team member post to the team assignment section.
Boundaries
Issues
University
of Phoenix
BSHS/335
March
1, 2014
Many professionals enter into the field of
social service work to help others grow and improve their life situations. Yet
in still, when working with clients, human service workers must maintain clear
boundaries to assure professional integrity and responsibility. The human
service field has many set boundaries that we must abide by. We take an oath as
human service workers to uphold the ethical code of conduct and make sure that
we are using this code in our everyday practice of human service management. Some
of these boundaries are in a professional nature, and some are in a personal,
multiple relationship nature. Professional boundaries limit the services that
we can render to a client, and personal boundaries limit our interaction with a
client. Setting personal boundaries is key when dealing with clients in the
human service field. If these boundaries are not set and a violation has
occurred, the repercussions could hurt the reputation of your organization and
the progress that you have made with a client. Boundaries help build a
professional relationship with a client. It helps each party involved know the
role that they play in making the success of the endeavor of them receiving
help possible. These boundaries have to be set as soon as the client and the
human service worker initially meet. The boundaries should include the way that
the client and the worker communicate with each other and the discussions that
they have at each meeting. When dealing with clients, a major skill that human
service workers must employ in facilitating the client’s growth or change
process is to earn their confidence, respect and trust. A boundary breach or
any ethics code violation would compromise the relationship and make it
difficult to help the client. In this paper, we will review why boundary issues
should be set between clients and human service workers, and the impact that it
will have if these boundaries are not set. We will be discussing different
scenarios that could potentially become ethic code violations between a client
and a human service worker, and conclude with helpful information and a summary
of the information we have discussed.
Boundaries Issues
The
boundaries between the caseworker and their client should be established
immediately. Examples to which should
never be conducted or entered into outside of the professional environment are
giving gifts, socializing, or sexual encounters. Clients who are seeking help because of their
situation possess a low self-esteem, and the need to be cared about. By giving a client a gift may create the
impression that the social worker is more than just someone assigned to handle his
or her case. The client may interpret
this gesture as one of affection. Sexual
interaction between the client and the caseworker is strongly discouraged. It is harmful, it violates the code of
ethics, and must be avoided so that a successful outcome results in solving the
problem, which the client has undergoing.
The human service professionals in a very basic way are like performers
in the movies or on the stage. They must
develop an assortment of roles in the service of their client. During the caseworkers’ involvement with
their client, there are consistent in maintaining their professional
position. The human service professional
primary duties are that of a caregiver with the understanding that all methods,
duties, and procedures stay wellwithin the boundaries of these ethical
issues. Once the clients that trust as
been establishing, the caseworker should never take advantage of their clients
emotional, and personal circumstances in a non-professional way.
Having
a social relationship with their client is important, some of the ways that the
professional can maintain a social relationship which is professional, would be
to communicate by phone, or send them e-mails which can all be executed from
the office. The code of ethics and the
confidentiality act are tools which safeguard against inappropriate types of
behavior, which involves the caseworker/human service professional from resulting
in a situation, which is harmful to themselves and the treatment of their
client.
There
are times when the issues are discussed and it may be difficult for both
parties to follow because people are human and they are sometimes
emotional. Whether they are positive or
negative, it is a part of life. When
people lives has been changed in some sort of negative way, they turn to a
place or person to assist them with their problem, and should never have their
situation exploited while seeking a cure.
Reference
Issues
and Ethics in the Helping Professions, Gerald Corey - © CengageLearning http://www.cengage.com/custom/UoP/Step8.html
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