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Secrets? An ethical issue involving cell phones

9/9/2011

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Submitted by an LCSW:
Recently a client asked that I look at a video she took of an argument she had with her spouse.  She videoed the argument on her cell phone without her spouse's knowledge.  I did look at it, and I could see him (but not her) and I could hear both of them.  

Clinically speaking, the video provided insight into the nature of the problem, but my gut says I shouldn't have looked at it.  It seems wrong to look at a video of someone who has no idea he's being videoed while arguing.  

Thoughts? 
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Fraud or what the heck?

9/2/2011

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I help serve a community breakfast in an inner city neighborhood on the weekends.  I often see clients there that I know don't really need the services of this totally donated breakfast.  On one hand, I think they are taking food that could go to someone who really needs it and on the other hand, is it really that bad that they do?  Should I tell the organizers of the breakfast? Should I say something to the clients?  (I know them from another agency.) There are really no eligibility requirements that I know of to partake of the breakfast, except they are supposed to be from the surrounding neighborhood.  It is not enforced though.
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