Closing or transferring a social work case

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Closing or transferring a social work case can create ethical dilemmas for practitioners. How would you react in the following situations? Choose your most likely response and check your scores at the end to find out how you perform at ending a working relationship with a service user.
Quiz courtesy of Frank Cooper, List of Life Ltd
www.listoflife.com

  1. 1

    A chance encounter with a former client who tells you about problems she is having with her new key worker. She is struggling and has just given birth.

  2. 2

    A former client keeps finding excuses to pop into the office to chat to you. You referred her to some community groups and discussed becoming more independent as part of your ending.

  3. 3

    As you near the end of your time with a client, she begs you to extend the number of sessions and says that she can't manage without you and will fall to pieces if she can't see you regularly.

  4. 4

    You are preparing to transfer a long-standing client to another worker, and worry you will miss this person. In the final session do you:

  5. 5

    You are about to transfer a service user to another worker but a support project you arranged for him can't start work for another three months. You feel that he needs the support. Do you:

  6. 6

    During your initial assessment of a client, he says you are just another worker who has come into his life for a short while only to leave again shortly having made no difference. Do you:

  7. 7

    Having had a positive ending with a client, you see him in the street with tears running down his face. He does not see you. Do you:

  8. 8

    You are being transferred to another department. Your client is distraught after suffering bereavement. You have ten sessions left but will only be able to do six of them. Do you:

  9. 9

    After a particularly emotional but positive session with a client, he says that it is great to have a friend like you who he can rely on. Do you:

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