Jenny Potter's Ethical Issues

The meet between Juan Ramirez and Jenny potter did hold a several ethical issues. When Juan read her name didn’t realize that Jenny Potter was a girl he dated in High School. When they met her s when he knew he knows her. They right away got acquaintance with their past and build a not a professional relationship. Apparently, they kept in contact to the point that her brother and Juan play golf together. Also, Jenny’s brother, Jenny and Juan have lunch together. Here was a professional that instead of following the National Organizations for Human Services Standards he decided to keep the old relationship going. As a professional he needed to stop the meeting. He needed to let her know that knowing her personally was going to interfere in helping her professionally. It was not ethical to keep the meeting knowing that it was a conflict of interest. This of course falls into the very first standard of the National Organization of Human Services which states “Human service professionals recognize and build on client and community strengths.” And “STANDARD 5
The standards are guidelines on how to work with people, and what to do in general. In order to minimize working with someone you know all you need to do is simply pass the case on to someone who does not know the person involved. This would make the ethical issue less likely to arise. In Juan’s case, yes he did not know that jenny was someone he had dated in the beginning, but once he realized it was her he should have gave her other options and declined the case. If the client refused to work with someone else, then he should have contacted his boss to figure out another way to direct the case. Then it would not have been a self-choice like Juan’s because a manager would have known n about the current issue. This would have made someone one Juan’s case less likely to be punished if something were to