Exam 5: Ethical Issues in Social Work Research

What ethical guideline(s)is are violated in the following study? A child therapist thinks the new,untested psychotherapy she recently developed is more effective than physician-prescribed medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.To research the effectiveness of her therapy,she tells parents that the therapy replaces the need for the medications and then provides the therapy to half of her clients,without telling parents about the study or which treatment group their child is in.

Ethical obligations regarding analysis and reporting

Science can be affected by political matters.

Which of the following statements is true about the dilemma involving the right to receive services versus the responsibility to evaluate service effectiveness?

It is often as important to report that variables are not related as to report that they are related.