According to Reamer's Guide to Ethical Decision-Making, If a Client

question 70

Multiple Choice

According to Reamer's Guide to Ethical Decision-making, if a client tells his social worker that he committed an armed robbery for which another person has been incarcerated, the social worker, according to______principle, should report the confession despite breaking confidentiality with her client.

• A) One person's right to self-determination supersedes that same person's right to well-being
• B) One person's right to well-being supersedes another person's right to self-determination
• C) Rules about basic survival supersede rules governing lesser actions

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Definitions:

Immediate Reinforcement

The instant reward or punishment following a behavior, influencing the likelihood of that behavior's occurrence in the future.

Cognitive Processes

Mental activities that include thinking, knowing, remembering, judging, and problem-solving.

Operant Conditioning

An instructional process in which the magnitude of a behavior is fine-tuned by using positive or negative feedback.

Variable-ratio

A reinforcement schedule in behavioral psychology where a response is reinforced after an unpredictable number of responses.