CORE VALUES
This core value emphasizes helping people in need and addressing social problems.
What is service?
A social worker discusses a client loudly in a public elevator.
What is a confidentiality violation?
The 2021 Code of Ethics revisions strengthened guidance in this ethical area.
What is cultural competence and cultural humility?
The 2021 Code of Ethics revisions added explicit language emphasizing this professional responsibility.
What is professional self-care?
A therapist accepts an expensive designer handbag from a client.
What is a boundary concern or potential dual relationship issue?
This core value focuses on challenging injustic and advocating for vulnerable populations.
What is social justice?
Social workers should disclose confidential information only with valid client consent or for this reason.
What is a compelling professional reason or legal requirement?
True OR False: Cultural Competence means mastering everything about another culture.
What is False?
What is false?
This occurs when a social worker has both a professional and personal relationship with a client.
What is a dual relationship?
This core value highlights the central importance of human connection in change.
What is the Importance of Human Relationships?
Before recording sessions or using client information for training, social workers should obtain this.
This concept involves lifelong learning, self-reflection, and awareness of power differences.
What is cultural humility?
Burnout, compassion fatigue, and unmanaged stress may contribute to this ethical concern.
What is professional impairment?
A client sends a therapist a friend request on social media. The therapist should first consider this.
What are professional boundaries and confidentiality risks?
This core value requires honesty, accountability, and ethical conduct.
What is integrity?
A clinician leaves client files visible on an unattended desk overnight.
What is a failure to protect confidentiality?
A worker assumes they fully understand a client's experience because they worked with similiar clients before. This is an example of this ethical risk.
What is making cultural assumptions over overgeneralizing?
A social worker continues practicing despite severe impairment affecting judgement and client care.
What is an ethical violation involving impairment and competence?
Social Workers should avoid relationships that risk this outcome for clients.
What is exploitation or harm?
This core value requires social workers to continually improve their knowledge and skills.
What is competence?
This ethical concept requires social workers to share only the minimum necessary information.
What is the minimum necessary standard?
The Code of Ethics encourages social workers to examine these unconscious influences that may affect practice.
What are implicit biases?
The Code of Ethics encourages organizations and agencies to support this among staff.
What is social worker self-care and well-being?
This should guide decisions when boundary situations are unclear.
What is consultation and ethical decision-making?