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Case Work Ethics Summary

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Summary This week I went out on the field with a couple of case workers. The caseworkers needed help with detaining children, and putting them in an out of home placement shelter. Caseworkers were asking people, mainly interns to help them with their case. The intake caseworkers had an ethical reason, as to why they wanted an additional caseworker accompanying them. One caseworker did not want to transport a child in her car, because of what the child did to his sibling to be placed out of the home. The other caseworker ethically did not want transport a teenage boy in her car. OCY’s policies says if we are transporting a caseworker who is of a different gender, they are to ask a caseworker who fits the clients gender to go out on the field with them and detain the child. Both times transporting the youths to placement was a success. …show more content…

A caseworker named Tashara Handcock asked me to interview two children from different schools, and take a photo of them for CPS. I completed the assigned cases, and obtain a photo of the children without any problems. Even on my own cases, when I interview my client it feels natural. My interviewing skills have improved very well to the point I feel comfortable talking with my clients. I know what questions to ask, and have the interview flow so it feels normal. On one of my cases I spoke with a teenage client stating I am ending an investigation the agency had assigned to me. I explained to the client the incident in which landed him in placement would be unfounded. The client understood, and did not have any questions as to why the case was

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