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The Reamer (2003) article discusses boundary issues in social work. Using the scenario below), please select two of the six ethical scenarios and answer the following questions for each scenario:

Does this scenario present with an ethical issue (boundary violation or crossing)?
Identify and discuss the ethical dilemma.
Provide an explanation of the central theme of the issue as addressed in the Reamer article (if appropriate).
Identify the relevant standard from NASW Code of Ethics that relates to the violation (e.g. 1.01 Commitment to Clients).

9.2 Failure to Report a Case of Child Abuse:

Jake Dember, a frail five-year-old, was brought to the Emergency Room of Mt. Ebal Hospital, unconscious, covered with blood from head to toe, obviously with serious internal injuries. His father, Hilary, said that Jake fell from their second-floor apartment and landed headfirst on the
cement sidewalk. The medical team was able to save Jake’s life, though serious brain damage could not be reversed. Now, two weeks later, Jake is still in the hospital’s critical care unit. The attending physicians are determined to report this as a case of child abuse. Before doing so,
they have asked the hospital social worker, Josie Perry, to appraise the general home environment. Erica Dember, Jake’s mother, did not want to talk to Josie. She said that she and her husband were already in family therapy at the Family Service Agency. If Josie wanted to
know anything about them, she should talk to their therapist, Ed Custer.
Josie arranged to meet with Ed Custer on the following afternoon. Ed was willing to share his assessment of the Dember family since both parents had signed the customary consent forms when Jade was admitted to the hospital. In the course of their conversation, Ed
acknowledged that he had been aware of ongoing child abuse in this family, but since he thought that it was not too serious, he did not file a report as required by law. He feared that such a report would have interfered with the therapeutic relationship that he was trying to
develop with this family.

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there might be some people who would prefer to deny the existence of any God so powerful, rather than believing that all other things are uncertain.” In other words, there are possibly other people who would deny that there is a God than to believe that everything else in the world does not exist. Descartes believes that God?

is being and all other things are not being. All other things in the world compared to God are subordinate because God is almighty.
Another one of Descartes’ theories in Meditation One is the Evil Demon Argument. It is also worth noting that is this not Descartes own position, but uses it as an argumentative device. The Evil Demon Argument states that an evil demon has the will, power, and the knowledge to make a person a constant victim of deception. Even one is thinking something is self-evidently true, it’s not.

There is a distinction between the mind and the body. The mind is essentially thinking and the body is essentially extended so that the two have nothing in common. In Descartes’ Meditations on Philosophy, there is a character, the mediator, and he reasons that he might cast all the opinions of others into doubt if he can doubt the foundations of basic principles upon which his opinions are founded.

In the first meditation, Descartes rejects as if false any belief that is open to doubt. He pushes skepticism to its limits by introducing the notion of an “evil demon”, a being that always tricks us into believing true what is actually

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