Global Ethical Principles
An overarching framework for social workers to work towards the highest possible standards of professional integrity.
What is the Global Social Work Statement of Ethical Principles?
Points of view at the heart of debates on human rights
What are universalist and cultural relativist positions?
This continuous process requires global social workers to examine their own values, biases, and position in relation to the communities they serve.
What is critical self-reflexivity?
The ability to interact effectively with people from different cultures through awareness of one's own biases, knowledge of other cultures, and a positive attitude towards diversity
What is Cultural Competence?
This principle says that people should have a say in their own decisions.
WHAT IS SELF-DETERMINATION?
The difference between Universalism and Cultural Relativism
Universalism is used as a foundation for global ethical standards in social work and cultural relativism is the belief that moral values and practices depend on cultural context.
The following refers to the awareness of:
Social workers must understand how their own social identities, such as race, class, or nationality, can influence their practice.
What is power and privilege?
You are the social worker for a family in India. You notice, with all your clients, that the woman stays at home to care for the children and the man goes off to work. Do you step in and say something about the potential harm of gender roles?
No, not if it is culturally-based
The ethical standard that matches this statement:
Social Workers encourage people to be involved in decisions that affect their lives.
PROMOTING THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATION
Values most related to the discussion of CEDAW and other guarantees of human rights for special populations.
What is Equality and Non-Discrimination?
The idea that all countries and communities develop along a linear trajectory of forward progress.
What is linear development?
What term does this define?
A set of values or principles to guide decision-making in particular situations, not prescriptive rules that provide concrete instructions on behaving in specific situations.
What is a code of ethics?
This principle says that social workers support peace and nonviolence.
What is Professional Integrity?
What term describes: “Culture is the sole source of the validity of a moral right or rule and that there are no common standards, only culturally specific ones”
What is the extreme cultural relativist argument?
Chowa states that a global social worker must ‘decenter’ this concept that holds Western methods as superior.
What is Eurocentric?
Despite significant cultural differences between nations, many countries root ethical discourse heavily on _________________.
What is the United States?
-A practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people.
- Principles that include social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities.
-Engages people and structures to address life challenges and enhance wellbeing.
What is the Global Definition of the Social Work Profession?
Healy recommends this kind of stance: Between the extremes of universalism and cultural relativism
What is a moderately mid-range position?
Chapter 7 states that global social work and workers must acknowledge and recognize the historical role of the social work profession in perpetuating _________ systems and practices and the harm caused to marginalized and indigenous communities by __________ policies.
What are COLONIAL histories?
A theoretical framework utilized by social workers to prioritize relevant ethical standards when navigating ethical dilemmas, with the goal of determining the most ethical course of action.
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?