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The Final Project for this course is the creation of a case study analysis. Review the Final Project Guidelines and Rubric PDF document, paying particular attention to the Prompt section (which is a detailed list of requirements for your final project), as well as the Milestone section (which provides an overview of each of the milestones in this course). Although the milestones support your successful completion of the final project, note that these assignments are not full drafts of the elements in the final project prompt, so although you will be working on different skills and aspects of your final project during the term, you will need to complete all elements of your case study analysis for submission in Module Nine. To begin your work on this project, select a case study vignette for your final project from the Case Study Vignette Directory PDF document.  Identify the title of your chosen case study vignette in your discussion post title. Explain why you chose this particular case study vignette, and identify the central ethical conflict evident in the case study. When responding to at least two of your peers, share your thoughts on their identified central ethical conflict. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your reasoning. To complete this assignment, review the Milestone One Guidelines and Rubric PDF document.

Peer1-SM

            For my project, I chose the case study 15-14 At the Farnsworth. In this case, a school counselor overhears some of the teaching staff in the lounge, gossiping about information that can be found in the student’s cumulative school record. The school counselor, instead of confronting the teachers about the confidentiality of those records, chooses to no longer put her notes in the students’ files. According to the textbook, record entries need to be balanced with utility and the “need to know”. I believe that the counselor’s reaction is an example of too much risk management and she could be hurting the children and jeopardizing the school/staff/other children by withholding specific information.

 

References:

Koocher, G. P, & Keith-Spiegel, P. (2016). Ethics in Psychology and the Mental Health Professions (4th ed.). Oxford University Press.

Peer2-JN

I am choosing the Case 14-13: Daze Fluster because I feel like as a college student I can relate to the students in the case. My job right now as well is a 1 to 1 Paraprofessional where I follow a visually impaired student from class to class and help him out. Sometimes in my own classes in college not all my professors were ready or prepared and spent too much time on other topics or just fiddling around. I have found too that in the high school lots of teachers slide by the seat of their pants when it comes to day-to-day lessons.

 

The central ethical dilemma in this case on Daze Fluster is that each class he proves to be not prepared or organized to teach the class. This shows his lack of being able to be professional or stand by his ethical responsibilities to the students.