Values
Responsibility
Challenges
Standards
Guess Your Best
100
Social workers behave in a trustworthy manner. Social workers are continually aware of the profession’s mission, values, ethical principles, and ethical standards and practice in a manner consistent with them. Social workers act honestly and responsibly and promote ethical practices on the part of the organizations with which they are affiliated.
What is Integrity
100
Social workers’ primary responsibility is to promote the well-being of clients. In general, clients’ interests are primary. However, social workers’ responsibility to the larger society or specific legal obligations may on limited occasions supersede the loyalty owed clients, and clients should be so advised. (Examples include when a social worker is required by law to report that a client has abused a child or has threatened to harm self or others.)
What is Commitment to Clients
100
A complex situation that often involves a conflict.
What is an Ethical Dilemma
100
1) social workers’ ethical responsibilities to clients, (2) social workers’ ethical responsibilities to colleagues, (3) social workers’ ethical responsibilities in practice settings, (4) social workers’ ethical responsibilities as professionals, (5) social workers’ ethical responsibilities to the social work profession, and (6) social workers’ ethical responsibilities to the broader society.
What are Ethical Standards.
100
The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty
What is the SW Ethics Preamble
200
Social workers’ primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems. Social workers elevate service to others above self-interest. Social workers draw on their knowledge, values, and skills to help people in need and to address social problems. Social workers are encouraged to volunteer some portion of their professional skills with no expectation of significant financial return (pro bono service).
What is the value of Service
200
Social workers respect and promote the right of clients to self-determination and assist clients in their efforts to identify and clarify their goals. Social workers may limit clients’ right to self-determination when, in the social workers’ professional judgment, clients’ actions or potential actions pose a serious, foreseeable, and imminent risk to themselves or others.
What is Self-Determination
200
Helps to make ethical distinctions between competing values.
What are Ethical decision making steps
200
Commitment to Clients, self determination, informed consent and self determination are included in what Ethical Standard?
What is SOCIAL WORKERS’ ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES TO CLIENTS
200
Professional ethics are at the core of social work.
What is Purpose of the NASW Code of Ethics
300
Social workers recognize the central importance of human relationships. Social workers understand that relationships between and among people are an important vehicle for change. Social workers engage people as partners in the helping process. Social workers seek to strengthen relationships among people in a purposeful effort to promote, restore, maintain, and enhance the well-being of individuals, families, social groups, organizations, and communities.
What is the importance of human relationships
300
Social workers should understand culture and its function in human behavior and society, recognizing the strengths that exist in all cultures. (b) Social workers should have a knowledge base of their clients’ cultures and be able to demonstrate competence in the provision of services that are sensitive to clients’ cultures and to differences among people and cultural groups.
What is Cultural Competence and Social Diversity
300
Is there a conflict of values, or rights, or professional responsibilities?
What is, determine if there is an ethical dilemma.
300
Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Disputes Involving Colleagues, Referral for Services and Sexual Harassment are examples of what ethical standard?
What is, SOCIAL WORKERS’ ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES TO COLLEAGUES
300
•service •social justice •dignity and worth of the person •importance of human relationships •integrity •competence.
What are the SW core values
400
Social workers practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise. Social workers continually strive to increase their professional knowledge and skills and to apply them in practice. Social workers should aspire to contribute to the knowledge base of the profession.
What is Competence
400
Social workers should respect clients’ right to privacy. Social workers should not solicit private information from clients unless it is essential to providing services or conducting social work evaluation or research. Once private information is shared, standards of confidentiality apply. (b) Social workers may disclose confidential information when appropriate with valid consent from a client or a person legally authorized to consent on behalf of a client.
What is privacy and confidentiality
400
Have you conferred with clients and colleagues, as appropriate, about the potential risks and consequences of alternative courses of action? Can you support or justify your action plan with the values/principles on which the plan is based?
What is, DEVELOPING an action plan that is consistent with the ethical priorities that have been determined as central to the dilemma.
400
Integrity of the Profession and Evaluation and Research are included in what ethical standard?
What are a SOCIAL WORKERS’ ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION
400
Your feeling uncomfortable with a client and find it difficult to work with them.
What is, seeking supervision and consultation.
500
Social workers challenge social injustice. Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people. Social workers’ social change efforts are focused primarily on issues of poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social injustice. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision making for all people.
What is Social Justice
500
(a) Social workers who provide supervision or consultation should have the necessary knowledge and skill to supervise or consult appropriately and should do so only within their areas of knowledge and competence. (b) Social workers who provide supervision or consultation are responsible for setting clear, appropriate, and culturally sensitive boundaries.
What is supervision and consultation
500
How will you make use of core social work skills such as sensitive communication, skillful negotiation, and cultural competence?
What is IMPLEMENT your plan, utilizing the most appropriate practice skills and competencies
500
Social Welfare, Public Participation and Social and Political Action are included in what ethical standard?
What is a SOCIAL WORKERS’ ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES TO THE BROADER SOCIETY
500
You dread going to work everyday, empathy has become a bad word, you find yourself disengaged with clients and co-workers and cynicism has become your constant companion.
What is, BURN-OUT
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