Why is this an ethical dilemma? Which APA Ethical Principles help frame the nature of the dilemma?

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WHY IS THIS AN ETHICAL DILEMMA?

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Case Study Seven Worksheet
Case Study
Rashid Vaji, Ph.D., a member of the school psychology faculty at a midsize university, serves as a faculty supervisor for students assigned to externships in schools. The department has formalized a supervision and evaluation system for the extern program. Students have weekly individual meetings with the faculty supervisor and biweekly meetings with the on-site supervisor. The on-site supervisor writes a midyear
 
(December) and end of academic year (May) evaluation of each student. The site evaluations are sent to Dr. Vaji, and he provides feedback based on the site and his own supervisory evaluation to each student. The final grade (fail, low pass, pass, high pass) is the responsibility of Dr. Vaji. Dr. Vaji also teaches the Spring Semester graduate class on “Health Disparities in Mental Health.” One of the course requirements is for students to write weekly thought papers, in which they are required to take the perspective of therapy clients from different ethnic groups in reaction to specific session topics. Leo Watson, a second-year graduate student is one of Dr. Vaji’s externship supervisees. He is also enrolled in the Health Disparities course. Leo’s thought papers often present ethnic-minority adolescents as prone to violence and unable to “grasp” the insights offered by school psychologists. In a classroom role-playing exercise, Leo “plays” an ethnic-minority student client as slumping in the chair not understanding the psychologist and giving angry retorts. In written comments on these thought papers and class feedback, Dr. Vaji encourages Leo to incorporate more of the readings on racial/ethnic discrimination and multicultural competence into his papers and to provide more complex perspectives on clients. One day during his office hours, three students from the class come to Dr. Vaji’s office to complain about Leo’s behavior outside the classroom. They describe incidents in which Leo uses derogatory ethnic labels to describe his externship clients and brags about “putting one over” on his site supervisors by describing these clients in “glowing” terms just to satisfy his supervisors’ “stupid liberal do-good” attitudes. They also report an incident at a local bar at which Leo was seen harassing attitudes. They also report an incident at a local bar at which Leo was seen harassing an African American waitress using racial slurs. After the students have left his office, Dr. Vaji reviews his midyear evaluation and supervision notes on Leo and the midyear on-site supervisor’s report. In his own evaluation report Dr. Vaji had written, “Leo often articulates a strong sense of duty to help his ethnic minority students overcome past discrimination but needs additional growth and supervision in applying a multicultural perspective into his clinical work.” The on-site supervisor’s evaluation states that:
Leo has a wonderful attitude towards his student clients . . . Unfortunately evaluation of his treatment skills is limited because Leo has had less cases to discuss than some of his peers since a larger than usual number of students have stopped coming to their sessions with him.
It is the middle of the Spring Semester, and Dr. Vaji still has approximately 6 weeks of supervision left with Leo. The students’ complaints about Leo, while more extreme, are consistent with what Dr. Vaji has observed in Leo’s class papers and role-playing exercises. However, these complaints are very different from his presentation during on-site supervision. If Leo has been intentionally deceiving both supervisors, then he may be more ineffective or harmful as a therapist to his current clients than either supervisor realized. In addition, purposeful attempts to deceive the supervisors might indicate a personality disorder or lack of integrity that if left unaddressed might be harmful to adolescent clients in the future.
 
Ethical Dilemma
 
Dr. Vaji would like to meet with Leo at minimum to discuss ways to retain adolescent clients and to improve his multicultural treatment skills. He does not know to what extent his conversation with Leo and final supervisory report should be influenced by the information provided by the graduate students
 
Respond to the following questions in 1,250 to 1,500 words.
 

  1. Why is this an ethical dilemma? Which APA Ethical Principles help frame the nature of the dilemma?

How does Gregor remind you of how broken and/or sick people are treated in society

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HOW BROKEN AND/OR SICK PEOPLE ARE TREATED IN SOCIETY

How does Gregor remind you of how broken and/or sick people are treated in society, such as: AIDS patients/old people/cancer patients/drug addicts/homeless/that strange boy in grade school who eats crayons.  How does his family, the manager and the three roomers treat him as such?
Again, choose your own malady and apply it to Gregor.  In your research use medical and/or psychology journals to help define Gregor’s diagnosis.
 
Now that you are somewhat familiar with the MLA process, along with quotes from the book you must find TWO sources from the SMC library (the SMC library online database are okay) on the illness or social phobia you are using to analyze Gregor.  Remember to look at my video on how to get into the library databases.
 
The paper must be thesis driven as we discussed.
 
* 8-10 pages, MLA style with works cited page.
* A topic accepted by me ahead of time.
 
* Two outside sources from our library (psychology, sociology or health journals okay).
 
* You must use quotes from the story itself in the paper.
 
* Papers are due on the day of the final – no exceptions!
 
Use examples from the text with quotes and work-cited page.  8-10 pages.

Discuss Hawthorne’s critique of Puritanism and of organized religion in general within The Scarlet Letter

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Choose ONE of the following topics on which to write (links to electronic versions of each of these texts are given at the end of this assignment, and all are readily available in libraries/bookstores):
 

  1. Discuss Hawthorne’s critique of Puritanism and of organized religion in general within The Scarlet Letter. Be sure to consider his critique within the context of American religious thought during the period in which Hawthorne wrote it.  How and why did he undertake his criticism during a time of increased national Christian fervor?

 

  1. A persistent and unconfirmed bit of folklore says that Abraham Lincoln supposedly greeted Harriet Beecher Stowe at the White House by saying, “So, you’re the little lady whose book has caused this great war!” Based on your research and on a reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, argue for or against this connection:  did Stowe’s novel play a substantial role in the outbreak of the Civil War, or not?

 
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  1. Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills was widely criticized among contemporary readers as a shocking, scandalous piece of fiction. What specific elements in the novel would have been

considered outrageous, disgraceful, and shameful during the time in which Harding’s novel was published?  (Note that much of the outrage was centered on contemporary notions of gender roles and the way in which Davis subverted them.)  Are there parallels for those troublesome elements in modern American society—ideas that would seem to be “untouchable” by respectable fiction?  If so, are they still focused on issues of gender, or is there some other basis for them?  Explain and defend your response.
 

  1. Consider James Fenimore Cooper’s portrayal of the exploration and settling of the American frontier in his novel The Pioneers. Compare/contrast this depiction to the pioneer experiences portrayed in at least three films/television series. How/why are modern interpretations similar to Cooper’s representation, and how/why are they different?  How does the time in which a particular interpretation is created affect the portrayal of American Westward expansion?  Based on your research, which portrayal is most accurate, and why?

 

  1. Discuss Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson in terms of the “place” and value of women during her day, both in the normal role of a white female in her community and also as a valuable commodity when dealing with the native Americans. Now, choose a more modern work of literature or film that explores one or more of the same basic theme/s in American life:  women’s role; the commodification of women; women in peril; the power dynamic between women and men.

 

How far do corporations intrude into the private lives of their employers?

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HOW FAR DO CORPORATIONS INTRUDE INTO THE PRIVATE LIVES OF THEIR EMPLOYERS?”

Final Research Project
The topic of your project needs to be a contemporary societal problem, such as healthcare reform, immigration reform, privacy rights, euthanasia, First Amendment Rights, stem cell research, capital punishment, corporate prisons, legalizing drugs, ageism, animal rights, cloning, prayer in schools, racial profiling, recycling/conservation, sexism, outsourcing jobs, workplace bullying, etc. The topic must focus on a single aspect, as in “How far do corporations intrude into the private lives of their employers?” or “The social costs of financing the distribution of custom-designed drugs.” You may suggest another topic to use, but the instructor must approve the topic during the Week Two Discussion.
The Final Research Project will present research relating the responsibilities of a critical thinker to contemporary society. In this assignment, you will do the following:

  • Research one aspect of a contemporary social problem.
  • Define the problem.
  • Propose a possible solution for the problem.
  • Create an argument that supports your thesis position. You should take on the perspective of a critically thinking researcher. The argument must present a thesis statement and evidence to support the thesis statement.
  • Evaluate the ethical outcomes that result from the position you take on the issue and explain how those outcomes would influence society and culture.
  • Interpret statistical data from at least two peer-reviewed scholarly sources.
  • Evaluate evidence using the following standards: validity, reliability, and bias related to the chosen topic and accurately identify strengths and weaknesses.

Research and Define the Problem
You must take on the perspective of your major field of study and explain in your paper what that perspective is and how it informs your view of the topic. The topics listed above are far too broad to write about in 10–12 pages (3,300–3,900 words). Instead, you must choose a narrowly defined thesis and approach it from the perspective of your field.
Example: If you are an economics major, and you are interested in immigration reform, you should approach a very specific aspect of immigration reform through the lens of economic theory and practice. A specific thesis question would not be, “How does illegal immigration influence the U.S. economy?” One could write thousands of pages on such a topic. Instead, a better question would be, “How do illegal immigrant hotel workers in Chicago impact the economy of Northern Illinois?” You would then want to do the research and determine the positive and negative impacts they have, ultimately trying to conclude how illegal immigration in this area should be approached ethically.