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Clinical social workers providing treatment to indMduals have the responsibility to allow full participation of the client when determining goals. Expected outcomes and the treatment of termination should be clearly specified and understood by both parties. What is the best way to develop this mutual understanding? 

Madeline is a single parent who works for a very controlling boss. He is demeaning and gives her jobs that others refuse. Madeline is afraid to speak up for herself due to needing the money to support her family. When she comes home in the evenings, immediately Madeline begins yelling at her children because the house is a mess. What behavior is the mother displaying? 

John walks past a fellow clinical social worker’s desk and overhears parts of a conversation. The colleague is making demeaning comments about another professional to someone on the other end of a phone line. Later, during lunch, John asks his colleague about the conversation. The colleague states he was talking with a client. What ethical standard has been violated by the fellow social worker? 

One particular personality disorder is more prevalent in females than males and involves 3% of the general population. Symptoms include a pattern of attention seeking behavior that may even become provocative in nature. Victims of this disorder may display rapidly shifting expressions of emotions, show self-dramatization and use physical appearance to draw attention to them. What disorder is described above?  

Indirect practice benefits all indMduals, but especially the population targeted by social welfare programs and policies. Social workers begin working with indMduals based on what foundational principle reinforced by the NASW Code of Ethics?