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Narrative Ethics: A Storied Approach to Ethical Decision Making With Clients

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1.  Narrative ethics suggests that one should approach ethical issues from a(n):
  1. Purely rational perspective
  2. Relational perspective
  3. Outsider's perspective
  4. Medical perspective
2.  When applying narrative ethics in practice, the primary focus is:
  1. The greatest good for the greatest number
  2. The core principles of morality
  3. Following agency policies and ethical codes
  4. The stories of people affected by the ethical issues
3.  Which of the following is an example of “immersing oneself” in the ethical situation?
  1. A social worker listening to a client’s narrative as if the social worker is actually involved in the situation.
  2. A social worker summarizing the main ethical standards to be considered.
  3. A social worker advising a client about the most ethical course of conduct to resolve the ethical issue.
  4. A social worker exploring ethical issues from the perspective of an independent person who has no stake in the outcome.
4.  When working with clients from diverse cultural backgrounds, narrative ethics suggests that social workers should:
  1. Apply the same ethical rules and principles to all clients, regardless of their culture.
  2. Act according to what is least likely to cause harm for the cultural group as a whole.
  3. Learn about the client’s culturally informed morals by listening to their stories.
  4. Prioritize life over autonomy, regardless of the clients’ values or belief systems.
5.  A client asks you not to tell her any bad news. Your code of ethics suggests that you should be honest with clients. Applying narrative ethics you should first:
  1. Try to understand why the client does not want you to tell her bad news by engaging her in storytelling.
  2. Tell the client bad news whenever you think the client needs to know.
  3. Withhold bad news from the client unless you think it is for the greater good to share the bad news.
  4. Immediately terminate work with the client in order to avoid an ethical violation of the principle of honesty and full disclosure.
6.  One of the benefits of narrative ethics is that it allows us to:
  1. Determine a universally accepted and singularly best response to a challenging ethical dilemma.
  2. Define the best response through simple arithmetic (benefits minus costs).
  3. Ignore individual differences and focus on general principles that apply to all people.
  4. Reinvent ourselves as better persons.
7.  When engaging clients in discussions of ethical issues from a narrative approach, social workers should:
  1. Encourage their clients to focus only on their own perspective.
  2. Encourage their clients to consider the perspectives of various people affected by the ethical issue.
  3. Discourage their clients from considering the story’s plot.
  4. Discourage their client’s from considering the story’s conflict.
8.  When explaining narrative ethics to coworkers, social workers should note that:
  1. Each story has one ending and that ending cannot be changed.
  2. People can be empowered to write the next chapters of their stories.
  3. There is no point discussing what happened in the future because narrative ethics focuses only on the past.
  4. There is no point discussing what happened in the past because narrative ethics focuses only on the future.
9.  According to narrative ethics, when a social worker helps clients deconstruct their narrative, the social worker:
  1. Tells the client a new, more positive story about how to live a moral life.
  2. Repeats everything the client has said, word-for-word.
  3. Helps the client explore assumptions and analyze the true meaning of the narrative.
  4. Encourages the client to accept the view of the majority of the people in their community.
10.  According to narrative ethics, when a supervisor helps a supervisee construct a narrative, the supervisor:
  1. Tells the supervisee which rules or ethical codes apply.
  2. Stays silent and just listens.
  3. Psychoanalyzes the deep-rooted, unconscious thoughts and beliefs that are troubling the supervisee.
  4. Helps the supervisee to develop a new narrative that moves the plot forward in a positive (ethical) manner.

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