Comparison Between The General Decision-Making Model And The Ethical Approach

It is important for all helping professionals to think about ethics in a wider context beyond individuality for clinical practice (Miley & Dubois, 2007). Practitioners like social workers have a way of thinking which involves ethical preferences correlated with caring, autonomy, power and change through an empowerment perspective (Dolgoff, Harrington, & Loewenberg, 2012). Both the general decision-making model and the ethical principles screen can be used to inform how social workers might approach issues like surrogacy if confronted in practice. For the general decision making model, it is based on the assumption that social workers have the capability to plan rationally to serve human needs (Dolgoff, et al., 2012). This model can be used
A number of comparisons can be made between the general decision making model and the ethical principles screen. One of them include that both are used to help assist social workers to approach confronting issues. They are both used as guides to help make sure social workers make the most appropriate ethical decisions. Also, both approaches are comprised with seven stages which are used to help social workers to make ethical decisions whenever they are confronted with ethical dilemmas. They allow social workers to approach an ethical dilemma through a step by step process until the end where the social worker can make the most ethical decision (Dolgoff et al., 2012). Along with that, both contain processes and tools that are used to help social workers know what is involved in ethical decision making (Dolgoff et al., 2012). When exploring the issues regarding surrogacy, both approaches will focus on the problem and ensuring that everyone is protected as much as possible. For example, if there is an ethical dilemma where the surrogate wants to be part in the life of the unborn baby but the intended parents do not want that then both approaches would move towards this dilemma in a similar