Please Help!! you will take on the role of an advocate. In social work practice, advocacy comes in many different forms. One of the ways in which social workers advocate is by bringing significant issues to the attention of supervisors, boards of directors, administrators, and others who have power to institute changes if they see fit to do so. Often, social workers have limited time (oral reports) or space (written reports) to make impactful statements. you will have the experience of writing a 'white paper. (See the below box Writing a White Paper for specific instructions on how to do so.)

a social worker's duties to warn, focusing on the Jaffe v. Redmond case, and to maintain confidentiality, focusing on the Tarasoff case, and under what kinds of circumstances those duties can be violated. Generally, our Code of Ethics explains that social workers must maintain these duties unless an individual is a threat to themselves or others.

Herbert (2002, p. 423) has made suggestions for different rules regarding the duty to warn: "A psychotherapist may warn a third party threatened explicitly or implicitly with physical harm by a patient, directly and/or by notifying the police, but need not, and is immune from civil liability under either election."

The white paper you will be writing aims to convince a non-profit social work agency's board of directors that your informed opinion about a social worker's duty to warn is correct. You will need to decide which guidelines for a social worker's duty to warn are the most ethically correct: the guidelines put forth by the Tarasoff decision, or Herbert's proposed guidelines. In order to compose your white paper, you will need to address the below points briefly, specifically, and convincingly.

1. How are the current duty to warn rules (based on the Tarasoff decision) different from Herbert's proposed rules?
2. In your informed opinion based on this Module's readings, are Herbert's (2002) suggested rules that contain more leeway better than the current duty to warn rules? Why or why not?
3. Tarasoff Big Idea Question: What do you believe would be the intended and unintended consequences for social workers and social work practice if Herbert's (2002) suggested rules regarding the duty to warn were instituted in place of the current rules that are based on the Tarasoff decision?