Ethical Dilemma

Using the APA ethics codePreview the document as your guide, you may choose to respond to ONE of the following ethical issues. Your response is to be only two pages double-spaced. Be sure to properly cite your information. Please include a title page in APA format (not included in two-page limit) with the title of the ethical issue you chose, your name, the date of submission, and Reading Area Community College. You also need to have a reference page for the article and your text book. SUBMIT YOUR SHORT PAPER AS AN ATTACHMENT (.rtf or .docx) TO THE APPROPRIATE DROP-BOX. Here are the dilemmas:

1. The executive director of the Mental Health Agency with which I am employed used his position to obtain and review clinical patient files of clients who were members of his church. He was a Deacon in a protestant church and indicated his knowledge of this clinical (confidential) information would be of help to him in his role as Deacon. What should I do? What ethical principles are to be applied here?

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2. One of my patients claimed she was raped; the police did not believe her and refused to follow up (because of her mental history). Another of my clients described how he raped a woman (the same woman). What should I do? What ethical principles are to be applied here