A new worker, Jill, is working at a large residential facility for the mentally ill and has been assigned four clients for whom she is to develop goals and objectives to help these clients move forward to greater independence. She meets with the first two clients and then confides to a worker who has been there longer that she had trouble understanding what the clients wanted to work on. The worker tells Jill, “Just make up the plans. These people are a waste of time. They won’t ever get any better. Look at that one. This is his fourth trip through here. No one ever made a difference with a plan, and you won’t either. Just put something down to satisfy the insurance company, and come in here with us. There is a good movie on TV tonight, and the staff is going to put the residents to bed early and get together in the patient lounge to watch it.”
The above hypothetical practice situations are designed to help you apply what you have learned in this chapter. For each situation, decide what was done in the situation that was unethical.
