Requirements: Your submission should be 4-6 pages, double-spaced, using 12-point font.
Your page count includes the Levy’s Value Classification Model chart.
All references must be in APA format.
Your paper should address the following points:
Select a value conflict from practice that occurred between you and a colleague, agency, parent or supervisor that revolved around a client or group.
Describe the conflict in detail.
Utilizing Levy’s Values Classification Model, provide the details of each of the three classifications from each position. Fill in the Levy’s Values Classification Model chart Download Levy’s Values Classification Model chartthat is provided and include it in your paper. Also present the case as a narrative, explaining in detail each of the classifications, i.e. Preferred Conceptions of People, Preferred Conceptions for Outcomes for Working with People, and Preferred Instrumentalities for Working with People from each of the parties to the case. Remember: Do not include the client as it revolves around your work with the client.
This classification model is not meant to provide resolution, but merely to help you understand the genesis of the value conflict. However, if you found resolution and would like to describe it in your narrative, you may enter it and explain how you and the other parties arrived at the resolution of the conflict. Include any mistaken use of values for knowledge or knowledge for values that may have altered the way the case was initially interpreted, and whether there were any dysfunctional outcomes as a result.
Include references to literature (at least three) and to the NASW Code of Ethics.
Here is an example of the Levy Value chart. Please note the X and Y axis are reversed here. But you can get a sense of the purpose of the chart, to explore decision-making from each party’s perspective.
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Social worker |
Psychiatrist |
Agency Director |
Social Policy Backdrop Only higher tiers of the socioeconomic ladder can access mental health care– all lower tiers must receive a serious diagnosis (label) to access mental health care. |
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Preferred Conceptions of people. |
All People deserve to have the same accuracy of diagnosis, to live unstigmatized, not boxed in by diagnosis, and to have leadership of their own path to wellness. |
Some people can afford to have more control over their medical records and paths and some cannot, but it matters little as long as the end-goal is the same. |
People are things of value to the organization. |
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Preferred Outcomes |
A healthy, independent, happy child and family who dictates when they are finished with the program. |
A healthy, independent, happy child and family- who can eventually move forward from the program.. |
That the client is healthy yet dependent on the agency. |
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Preferred Instrumentalities |
You will dictate your own progress and path. |
I will lead you to health, and you will have little say in the path. |
I will lead you to health, and you will have little say in the path. |
