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M. Dimitrova, Yana. "PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SOCIAL WORKER." Knowledge International Journal 28, no. 6 (2018): 2075–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.35120/kij28062075y.
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Current study presents professional qualities of social worker and summarizes his professional knowledge, skills and qualities. Like any other profession, social work also has its obligations and responsibilities. They are based on ethical norms and requirements. Ethical rules are set in the Social Worker's Code of Ethics. It represents standards of ethical conduct in professional relations with clients, colleagues, institutions and society as a whole.Professional ethics is an integral part of the components that form the structure of the professional competence of the social worker. The term "professional ethics" refers to the set of requirements for the morality of the worker in each area of professional activity. There are common, valid for all professions requirements for labor morality, as well as specific for the specific profession or position.In the context of social work, the issue of professional ethics is particularly important because of the often necessary need in the daily life of the specialist to confront ethical dilemmas, to make a choice between the purely human response and the professional solution, to observe and apply moral norms.Moral categories in professional and educational activity are manifested in several ways: professional abilities; relations between the subjects in the pedagogical process; ethical relationship within the work team.Professional social work also requires the need for other components in the structure of professional ethics considered as a helping activity, more in the context of social support and assistance, such as caring for the social well-being of people. Professional social work also requires the need for other components in the structure of professional ethics - confidentiality, support volunteering, anti-discriminatory attitude, the best interest of the client, etc.Social work is among the professions that are realized and represent a special category - filled with humanity, compassion; a profession that requires love and concern for people, concern and responsibility towards their destiny, readiness for conscious and voluntary support in the name of their prosperity. It is these characteristics that can only occur when the social worker has high morals, values that are transformed into ethical attitudes and behaviors.
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Osmo, Rujla, and Ruth Landau. "Religious and Secular Belief Systems in Social Work: A Survey of Israeli Social Work Professionals." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 84, no. 3 (2003): 359–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.121.
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In this study, the authors examined the impact of religiosity on social workers' ranking of ethical principles. The findings indicate that religiosity may be a distinguishing variable in some, but not all, contexts of ethical decision making in social work practice. The religiosity of religious social workers may influence their ethical decision making in situations with religious connotations. Moreover, religious social workers' ethical hierarchies seem to be more consistent both in different contexts and in comparison to those of secular social workers. The prospect that social workers may be influenced in some situations by a competing code of rules in conflict with the professional code of ethics emphasizes the need for social workers' awareness of their own belief system.
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Featherstone, Brid, and Anna Gupta. "Social Workers’ Reflections on Ethics in Relation to Adoption in the UK: Everywhere but Nowhere?" British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 3 (2019): 833–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz033.
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Abstract Empirical research with social workers exploring their understandings and use of codes or ethical theories in practice remain underdeveloped in the UK. This article, based on the British Association of Social Work commissioned Enquiry into the role of the social worker in adoption with a focus on ethics and human rights, provides an important contribution in this context. The Enquiry engaged with a range of stakeholders and explored their perspectives on the adoption process, but the primary focus of this article is on how ethics were understood and discussed by social workers. One hundred and five social workers participated in the Enquiry through questionnaires, interviews and group discussions, and a thematic analysis of their data revealed important findings. For example, the social workers made no explicit reference to codes of ethics or specific ethical theories. However, some of the themes that emerge from the analysis support discussions in what is now a substantial international literature on the importance of recognising ‘ethics work’ by social workers (Banks, 2016). Weinberg’s (2009) explorations of moral distress and ethical trespass are also important and underdeveloped concepts that resonate with themes from the Enquiry and could support more ethically enquiring cultures within organisations and more broadly.
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Congress, Elaine P. "What Social Workers Should Know About Ethics: Understanding and Resolving Ethical Dilemmas." Advances in Social Work 1, no. 1 (2000): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/124.
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Recognizing ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in professional practice is crucial for social work practitioners, educators, and students. After a discussion about the limited, although growing, literature on social work ethics, the ten main tenets form the most current NASW Code of Ethics are presented. These topics include limits to confidentiality, confidentiality and technology, confidentiality in family and group work, managed care, cultural competence, dual relationships, sexual relationships, impairment and incompetence of colleagues, application to administrators and relevance to social work educators. In addition to understanding the Code of Ethics, social workers can use the ETHIC model of decision making for resolving ethical dilemmas. This easy to use five step process includes examining personal, agency, client, and professional values, thinking about ethical standards and relevant laws, hypothesizing about consequences, identifying the most vulnerable, and consulting with supervisors and colleagues. A case example involving confidentiality, HIV/AIDS and family therapy demonstrates how social workers can use the ETHIC model.
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Forti, Valeria Lucilia. "Pluralism, Social Work and an Ethical-Political Project: one theme many challenges." Revista Katálysis 20, no. 3 (2017): 382–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-02592017v20n3p382.
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Abstract This essay is the result of observations drawn from our decades of experience as a social worker and professor, particularly of classes in professional ethics in Social Work. It is also based on theoretical studies and qualitative empirical academic research about ethics/professional ethics and Social Work. The content was partially presented and debated in a lecture at the XV ENPESS. The arguments seek to deepen the debate about the relationship between pluralism and Social Work. Such a debate is essential to professionals in the field, since it is linked to the fundamental ethical principles of the current Code of Professional Ethics of Social Workers. It should be noted that there is a sufficient and critical apprehension of the subject by Social Work professionals and students must have an adequate and critical grasp of these issues, particularly considering the present moment when current conservative waves that are expressed with such importance in the social life of Brazilians and seem to have repercussions in this professional field.
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Leliūgienė, Irena, Violeta Andrijevska, and Angelė Kaušylienė. "REALISATION OF ETHICS IN THE ACTIVITY OF A SOCIAL WORKER." SOCIAL WELFARE: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH 2, no. 6 (2016): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21277/sw.v2i6.271.
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The article presents the results of the research in the realisation of ethics in social work activities. Social work is a complex and multifaceted profession in which practice is based on strong values. Social work values and ethical principles have been a particularly acute and debatable topic since ancient times. It has always been noticed that social work practical activities raise ethical issues and dilemmas. Ethical problems and their solutions are basic problems in the development of social work as a profession. Due to these reasons, the main goal of this article was set: to reveal how ethics are implemented by social workers in practice. In order to achieve the goal, the following objectives were set: 1. to explore the concept of ethics and values in social work context. 2. to analyse how the social worker's ethical standards are being implemented in various fields of activity. 3. to examine how ethics is realised in practice by the social workers of N District Municipality. In order to achieve the goal and tasks, the concept of ethics and values in social work was discussed as well as the analysis of social work ethics was implemented in various branches and spheres of activity. To reveal the topic, the research (survey) was carried out, which was attended by the N District Municipality social workers. Closed-ended questions were analysed by quantitative research methods and open-ended questions were processed by qualitative research methods. The results revealed that social workers of N District Municipality knew the ethical standards of their profession and implemented them in all the mentioned aspects of ethical codes. Social workers identified five main reasons which cause violations of ethical standards in their practice: apathy of colleagues, heavy workload, lack of offices, problematic clients and nervous tension at work.
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McMAHON, ROBIN L. "An ethical dilemma in a hospice setting." Palliative and Supportive Care 1, no. 1 (2003): 79–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478951503030013.
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The codes of ethics of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the National Association of Social Workers support ethical standards of client self-determination and confidentiality. Lack of societal consensus on the parameters of a terminally ill person's right to die continues to confound at times the health care field, including hospice programs. This article explores an actual case where a hospice social worker faced an ethical dilemma related to the sanctity of life versus patient autonomy. While a more seasoned social worker might have chosen a different alternative to the dilemma, this case illustrates the importance of creating an interdisciplinary rather than multidisciplinary hospice team and the need for ongoing dialogue on how to support patient choice.
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Jayawardana, Bhagya Hithaishi, and K. Nanayakkara. "Ethical Challenges in Social Work Practice in Sri Lanka." Asian Social Work Journal 3, no. 2 (2018): 37–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47405/aswj.v3i2.37.
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Ethical practice is fundamental to any practiced based profession including social work. The social work profession is a diverse one with a mission to promote wellbeing and quality of life for vulnerable people. Despite serving the society it’s also central to promoting social work Ethics to maintain the professional standards and lessen the ethical issues and dilemma’s faced in day today practice. Ethics are really important to any profession, yet a necessity for those rooted in and human services. In the Sri Lankan context, it is disheartening to see how social workers have lost their professional identity with the absence of a professional code of ethics in place. A qualitative research approach was followed to explore and describe the key ethical challenges faced by the social workers in Sri Lanka. Survey method, in-depth interviews and key informants interviews were utilized and analyzed based on purposive sampling method. The data were categorized based on different themes. The finding proves that there is no proper guideline to be followed for the practitioners, particularly in situations of ethical dilemmas and conflicts. Most of the Human Service Organizations have their own set of rules with lesser focus on the code of ethical conduct. The unethical practice unintentionally promotes the malpractice leading to scenarios where organizational set of rules violates the client’s self determination and confidentiality. Although most of the upcoming social work graduates are made aware of the importance of maintaining an ethical conduct, when they join the work force as social workers they face many constraints due to absence of a formal code of ethics. This has resulted most of the social workers not having any obligations to continue an ethical practice hence their practice is inevitably not much embedded in ethics. Thus the study provides an outlook on the ethical challenges faced by the social workers specially working in different sectors in Sri Lanka.
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Freud, Sophie, and Stefan Krug. "Beyond the Code of Ethics, Part II: Dual Relationships Revisited." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 83, no. 5 (2002): 483–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.228.
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The authors, both social work educators, serve on an ethics call line committee that provides insights on how the provisions of the (United States) National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics (NASW, 1996) interface with the ethical dilemmas encountered by the social work community. In this paper, the authors highlight aspects of social work practice that they consider ethical, yet not easily accommodated by the provisions of the current Code. They also question the 1996 introduction of the concept of dual relationships into the Code and suggest that the Code adopt the less ambiguous term of boundary violations. Also recognized by the authors is the need for clear boundaries for the protection of clients against temptations that might arise in a fiduciary relationship, and for the legal protection of social workers. But, the authors argue, social work practitioners in certain settings, with particular populations, and in certain roles, inevitably face multiple relationships as an integral aspect of their work. The authors conclude that social work's adoption of the psychoanalytic constrains of anonymity, neutrality, and abstinence has detoured the profession from its original double focus on individuals and their society.
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Freud, Sophie, and Stefan Krug. "Beyond the Code of Ethics, Part I: Complexities of Ethical Decision Making in Social Work Practice." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 83, no. 5 (2002): 474–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.55.
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The authors have acquired experience in, and opinions on, ethical decision making while serving on a (U.S.) National Association of Social Workers (NASW) peer consultation ethics call line. The authors agree with scholars who view all human perceptions and activities as shaped by values, with the concurrent need to become more self-conscious about the ethical dimension of our daily life and professional practice. It is argued that our social work code of ethics is a necessary but insufficient tool for ethical decision making. The Code of Ethics (National Association of Social Workers, 1996) is frequently used as a risk management tool, offering guidelines for practice which may or may not be compatible with the goals of social justice for which social work ideally stands. Additionally, the unique and unexpected ways ethical issues emerge in clinical practice work against attempts to apply the Code as a rule book. Distinctions between ethical, legal, and clinical issues are difficult, given that the two latter domains have inevitable ethical implications. The authors urge readers to supplement a model of purely rational, ethical decision making with their emotions and intuition as shaped by our culture and our profession. Ethical judgments are best made in small groups where members bring different perspectives and intuitions to the process while agreeing on basic humanistic values.
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O’Brien, Mike. "Social work registration and professionalism: Social justice and poverty – fellow travellers or discarded passengers?" Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 25, no. 3 (2016): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol25iss3id73.
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Poverty is a central focus for social work and social workers, but has received much less attention over recent times. While the ANZASW Code of Ethics and SWRB Code of Conduct differ in their expectations of social workers on social justice issues, it is the impact of managerialism and neo-liberalism and their incorporation of postmodern language of difference and diversity that is much more significant in this comparative neglect. Social workers need to reassert their collective voice on issues of poverty to meet their ethical obligations for competent practice.
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Woodcock, Ray. "Preamble, Purpose, and Ethical Principles Sections of the NASW Code of Ethics: A Preliminary Analysis." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 89, no. 4 (2008): 578–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3828.
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The first three, brief sections of the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers (1999) display striking inconsistency of content and uncertainty of purpose. The decision to incorporate those sections into a single code document along with the lengthy fourth section (Ethical Standards) appears to have contributed to their imperfection. The mission statement and the ethical principles, in particular, may develop better if they are divided into separate documents, each with its own distinct purpose. Such a development might help reduce the extent to which social workers must rely upon individualistic rather than shared wisdom in responding to common ethical issues.
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Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly, and Miri Ben-Amram. "Developing a Code of Ethics amongst Social Workers in Supported Employment: Exploring the Socio-ecological Model." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 6 (2020): 1834–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa009.
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Abstract This study reveals the ethical dilemmas encountered by social workers who mentor workers with intellectual and developmental disabilities that work in the free labour market through supported employment frameworks. The aim of the study is to examine the social workers' ethical dilemmas, while extracting rules of conduct and ethical codes that are unique to supported employment frameworks, through team simulation training. The study included forty-eight social workers who attended nine sessions in the course of one year. The findings, which were analysed using a qualitative methodology, revealed that the dilemmas, rules of ethical conduct and the derived ethical codes ranged from flexible solutions to setting firm boundaries. It emerged that the ethical dilemmas were associated with interactions that take place on all layers of the socio-ecological model. The contribution of the study is in developing an ecological approach to coping with the multidimensional dilemmas that arise in the context of supported employment. The findings will help develop a systemic approach amongst social workers towards coping with the ethical challenges involved in this type of employment.
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Cerchia, Rossella Esther, and Katherine Piccolo. "The Ethical Consumer and Codes of Ethics in the Fashion Industry." Laws 8, no. 4 (2019): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/laws8040023.
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Sustainability is a central challenge of the fashion industry. In an era where Internet and social networks allow information to spread quickly, more consumers are familiar with the call for “ethical fashion” as disasters such as Rana Plaza resound worldwide. However, consumers interested in buying “ethical” clothing could have a hard time orienting themselves amongst the abundance of brands claiming to be ethical on the market. Consumers might make purchasing decisions based on their knowledge of a brand. In this context, it is imaginable that corporate social responsibility (CSR) communications, including codes of ethics, could constitute one way a consumer can learn more about a company’s values. These codes may serve a variety of purposes—they are undoubtedly one of the ways a brand communicates its commitment to ethical principles. Indeed, by analyzing the codes of ethics of some of the industry’s well-known brands, it is evident that they primarily focus on employment and workers’ rights (including equality and discrimination issues), labor safety standards, bribery and anti-corruption, counterfeiting and unfair business practices, as well as respect for (and sometimes improvement of) the environment. A company’s code of ethics is also a powerful tool for improving brand image by adopting a code that responds to the issues that consumers care about. It is therefore necessary to distinguish between companies that are truly ethical and those that merely appear so. In order to protect consumer confidence in such documents, a fil rouge across legal systems may be found (although the specific characteristics may vary greatly) in the laws that protect consumers from misleading advertising.
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Krasnovа, Nataliia. "Pedagogical Ethics as a Component of Professional Ethics of a Specialist in Social Work." Bulletin of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University 1, no. 1 (339) (2021): 177–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.12958/2227-2844-2021-1(339)-1-177-190.
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This article characterizes professional ethics as a set of moral and ethical guidelines and values that define the system of norms and values that govern a particular specific professional activity, the specificity of which is that it specifies the general moral requirements for the uniqueness of a profession. , and analyzes the norms and rules of conduct, and its formation is considered as a system of moral principles, rules and norms of behavior of the specialist, taking into account the specifics of the profession and attitude to professional duty, based on a code of conduct that ensures the moral content of professional relationships; the concept of pedagogical ethics is given, which accumulates the principles of universal ethics of a specific profession and personal ethics and its structure is defined, which consists of ethical-worldview, professional-educational, cultural-behavioral, reflexive-evaluative elements; proved that the criterion of pedagogical ethics in the professional ethics of a social worker can be considered his activities aimed at improving the educational process, which is based on a humanistic orientation based on values (human life, respect for human dignity, social responsibility) and personal qualities: moral and humanistic (benevolence, altruism, tolerance, responsibility, etc.); psychological characteristics (stable mental state, emotional and volitional characteristics); psychoanalytic (self-control, self-criticism, self-assessment): psychological and pedagogical (communicativeness, empathy, perceptiveness, visuality, etc.).
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Orme, Joan, and Gavin Rennie. "The role of registration in ensuring ethical practice." International Social Work 49, no. 3 (2006): 333–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872806063405.
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English This article compares the processes of registration of social workers in the UK and New Zealand. Its findings are that registration is linked, not to the development of codes of ethics, but to regulation based on codes of conduct. This leads to a discussion of the implications for ethical practice. French Cet article compare les processus d'inscription des travailleurs sociaux au Royaume Uni et en Nouvelle Zélande. Les résultats de la recherche démontrent que l'inscription n'est pas liée au développement d'un code d'éthique mais plutôt à des règles fondées sur un code de conduite. L'article discute des implications pour une pratique éthique. Spanish Se compara el proceso de colegiación de trabajadores sociales en el Reino Unido y en Nueva Zelanda. Se halla que la colegiación está ligada no al desarrollo de códigos éticos, sino a regulaciones basadas en códigos de conducta. De ahí se deriva una exploración de las implicaciones para la práctica ética.
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Fine, Marshall, and Eli Teram. "Believers and Skeptics: Where Social Worker Situate Themselves Regarding the Code of Ethics." Ethics & Behavior 19, no. 1 (2009): 60–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10508420802623682.
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Solnica, Amy, Leonid Barski, and Alan Jotkowitz. "The healthcare worker at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Jewish ethical perspective." Journal of Medical Ethics 46, no. 7 (2020): 441–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2020-106294.
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The current COVID-19 pandemic has raised many questions and dilemmas for modern day ethicists and healthcare providers. Are physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers morally obligated to put themselves in harm’s way and treat patients during a pandemic, occurring a great risk to themselves, their families and potentially to other patients? The issue was relevant during the 1918 influenza epidemic and more recently severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic in 2003. Since the risk to the healthcare workers was great, there was tension between the ethical duty and responsibility to treat and the risk to one’s own life. This tension was further noted during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa that left hundreds of healthcare workers dead. The AMA Code of Ethics states that physicians are to ‘provide urgent medical care during disasters…even in the face of greater than usual risk to physicians’ own safety, health or life.’1 Classic Jewish sources have dealt with this question as well. There is an obligation ‘to not stand by idly when your friends life is in danger’; however, the question arises as to whether there are limits to this obligation? Is one required to risk one’s own life to save another’s? There is a consensus that one is not required but the question open to debate is whether it is praiseworthy to do so. However, regarding healthcare workers, there is agreement for ethical, professional and societal reasons that they are required to put themselves in harm’s way to care for their patients.
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Miklyaeva, Anastasiya V., Elena K. Veselova, Galina V. Semenova, and Elena V. Bakhvalova. "Ethical Regulation as a Problem-Solving Resource Leading to Participant Interaction in the Educational Process in Terms of Integration and Inclusion." Integration of Education 23, no. 3 (2019): 423–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.096.023.201903.423-439.
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Introduction. The article is dedicated to analysing the possible ethical regulation of problems that arise during the interaction of participants in the educational process through integration and inclusion (based on the example of teaching children with disabilities and orphaned children in regular schools). The relevance of the article is in its discussion of the trend towards the spread of inclusive and integrative practices in modern Russian education. Materials and Methods. The study was aimed at investigating problems experienced in terms of inclusion and integration in the context of ethical principles of interaction in education. The study involved 391 respondents, all students of regular schools of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Oblast, in which programs of inclusion and/or integration have been put into practice, as well as their parents and teachers. The problems arising in the interaction of subjects of education in the conditions of integration and inclusion were studied by sociometry (characteristics of the position of special children in the system of interpersonal relations with peers in a heterogeneous class), structured interviews (analysis of the teachers’ attitudes to work in heterogeneous classes) and questionnaires (analysis of the parents’ attitude to teaching their children in a heterogeneous class). Interpretation of the results was carried out by comparing the empirical data with the ethical principles fixed in the Model Code of Professional Ethics of Pedagogical Workers, as well as ethical codes adopted by representatives of related professions. Results. During processes of integration and inclusion, a hidden or obvious social exclusion is observed in every part of interaction during the educational process (“student-student”, “student-teacher”, “student-parent”, “parent-teacher”) and is specified by the following characteristics: discrimination and stigmatisation of children with special needs and their parents; exclusion of children with special needs to the fringes of the social system inside their class; intentional or unintentional information disclosure about the child’s health and/or his family status. The ethical principles that are most often violated in the interaction of participants in the educational process (the principle of respect, the principle of competence, the principle of confidentiality) are highlighted. A theoretical comparison of the items that reveal these ethical principles in the professional codes of doctors, social workers, educational psychologists and the Model Code of Professional Ethics of Pedagogical Workers showed that ethical regulation can become a useful resource for resolving moral conflicts that arise in pedagogical interaction. For this, it is necessary to indicate the principles of respect and competence regarding the conditions of an integrated and inclusive education, as well as to develop special content related to the principle of confidentiality. Discussion and Conclusion. The findings contribute to the development of pedagogical deontology and can be used to clarify ethical principles of interaction in ter ms of integration and inclusion in education.
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Dolinsky, Hillary Rose, and Natalie Helbig. "Risky Business: Applying Ethical Standards to Social Media Use with Vulnerable Populations." Advances in Social Work 16, no. 1 (2015): 55–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/18133.
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Social media is changing how those in the helping professions offer clinical, medical, or educational services, provide referrals, administer therapeutic interventions, and conduct research. Non-profits and government organizations working with vulnerable populations need to consider the possibility of ethical mistakes when using social media. A comparison of Facebook strategies used with the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD) mandate to engage and locate current and former youth in the child welfare system was conducted. Facebook practices and strategies were examined based on the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics and the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Standards for Technology and Social Work Practice. The ethical standards examined include: obtaining consent, preserving confidentiality, verifying youth identity online, and avoiding disclosure of foster care affiliation. Findings demonstrate the importance of providing guidelines and best practices when adopting social media tools for interacting with vulnerable populations.
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Trappenburg, Margo, Thomas Kampen, and Evelien Tonkens. "Social Workers in a Modernising Welfare State: Professionals or Street-Level Bureaucrats?" British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 6 (2019): 1669–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz120.
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Abstract Social workers are often depicted as street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) or professionals interchangeably. However, to find out how social workers relate to new policy measures, a clear distinction between SLBs and professionals is helpful. Ideal–typical SLBs subscribe to new policies although they may diverge from them in practice, to accommodate clients. Ideal–typical professionals weigh new policies against their ethical code. If the new policy goes against their professional principles, they protest on behalf of their clients. In this article, we study Dutch social workers who have to implement a new policy that (i) obliges their clients to actively participate in society and (ii) obliges them to rely on family and friends when they need help. The data for this article are derived from two projects: interviews with twenty-nine experienced social workers and interviews with social workers in neighbourhood teams and observations of their interactions with clients in six municipalities. We found that Dutch social workers think as professionals: they weigh the new policy against their ethical code and have serious doubts about the second part of the new policy. Hence, they find ways to avoid implementation. However, they behave as SLBs, bending the rules in practice. They rarely confront policymakers or higher management.
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Raines, James C. "Ethics in an Epidemic: Nine Issues to Consider." Children & Schools 43, no. 2 (2021): 89–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cs/cdab011.
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Abstract This article addresses nine ethical concerns facing school social workers during an epidemic and other emergency situations when they must rely on electronic communication platforms, such as Doxy.me, Skype, or Zoom. These issues of concern are use of appropriate terminology, client self-determination, technological competence, informed consent, confidentiality, boundary issues, social justice, record keeping, and professional self-care. The article combines research on the psychosocial effects of quarantine on students and their families and data about the effectiveness of telemental health. It provides legal expectations from the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act as well as ethical guidance from the American Telemedicine Association and the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics to provide practical strategies about how to help students and their families during a time of prolonged stress. The article takes a strengths-based approach to crisis intervention by indicating both the advantages and the disadvantages of using electronic communication tools to provide continuity of care to clients.
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Gumz, Edward J., and Cynthia L. Grant. "Restorative Justice: A Systematic Review of the Social Work Literature." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 90, no. 1 (2009): 119–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3853.
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Restorative justice is an alternative paradigm for dealing with the effects of crime and wrongdoing that seeks to bring healing to victims, offenders, and the community. Although a key element of social work's ethical code is the obligation to work toward social justice, this has been viewed primarily as efforts to ensure a fair distribution of resources and opportunities. Yet justice is also restorative in nature–-seeking to restore and enhance victims, offenders, and communities to fuller functioning. This article systematically reviews 80 social work peer-reviewed articles dealing with restorative justice. The role of social workers in restorative justice programs remains largely unknown. Suggestions are made for enhancing social work practice in the restorative justice arena.
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Greif, G. L. "When a Social Worker Becomes a Voluntary Commissioner and Calls on the Code of Ethics." Social Work 49, no. 2 (2004): 277–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/49.2.277.
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Brooks, Rochelle. "The Development Of A Code Of Ethics: An Online Classroom Approach To Making Connections Between Ethical Foundations And The Challenges Presented By Information Technology." American Journal of Business Education (AJBE) 3, no. 10 (2010): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/ajbe.v3i10.483.
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In today's organizations, ethical challenges relate to areas like fraud, right to privacy for consumers, social responsibility, and trade restrictions. For Information Technology (IT) specifically, these can translate to considerations on how technology is used to violate people’s privacy, how automation leads to job reductions, or how management information and its corresponding systems are used and abused for personal gain. In the last 25 years, we have seen an overwhelming technology infusion affecting business, education, and society. Virtually all areas of our society have been transformed by the usage of technology. The change is important from an ethical perspective in terms of who Information Technology (IT) workers are today and what their tasks are. In the 1980s, IT workers were mainly limited to technical fields, such as programming, data processing, server administration, and phone services. Today, IT workers are integrated into every department of organizations, they function globally, and they have access to a wealth of knowledge and information (Payne & Landry, 2006). With the power and the skills to access such large amounts of data comes the need for ethical employees. Morality of respect doesn’t appear, fully formed, at a particular age. Instead it develops slowly and higher education needs to take a role in this. Higher education, specifically in business schools, needs to take some responsibility in preparing students for the ethical usage of information technology and the underlying information within those systems. In this research investigation, an assignment was provided to students in an online course entitled Ethics and Technology in which they were given the opportunity to develop a code of ethics that focused on key challenge areas in the usage of information technology while at the same time making connections to ethical leaders.
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Hughes, Alex. "Corporate Strategy and the Management of Ethical Trade: The Case of the UK Food and Clothing Retailers." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 37, no. 7 (2005): 1145–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3753.
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Ethical trade, involving codes of conduct for worker welfare, has recently emerged as a form of corporate self-regulation for global commodity chains in the context of a neoliberal trading environment. I present a particular critique of ethical trade based on its embeddedness in corporate strategies and management systems. The ethical trading strategies of leading UK food and clothing retailers form the empirical focus of inquiry, and theories found in the literature on economic geography concerning corporate strategy and interfirm organisation are used to gain critical insight into the management systems used by these retailers when they attempt to put ethical trading principles into practice in their global supply chains. Variations are observed between retailers in terms of their commitment to ethical trade, which are shaped by issues of corporate culture, financial management, and corporate restructuring. Varying levels of commitment to ethical trading strategy are argued in turn to influence organisational approaches to social auditing in the supply chain. Three contrasting modes of organisation for ethical monitoring are suggested to be used by retail companies—the arm's-length approach, the coordinated approach, and the developmental approach—each of which holds contrasting implications for suppliers and workers at production sites. I argue that corporate approaches to ethical trade vary markedly and that these variations have the capacity to shape the regulation of labour conditions at sites of export production.
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Teh, Yang Yang, Yoges Munisamy, Peace Yuh Ju Wong, Kevin Tan, Jingrui Huang, and Jacqueline Au Yong. "Singapore social work practice with lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients." International Social Work 61, no. 1 (2015): 51–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872815603785.
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This is a first Singapore exploratory study to understand Singapore social workers’ perceptions of their practice with lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) clients and examine how they may differ by their training, clinical experiences, and demographics. This is crucial, given the societal stigma and lack of social work support for the LGB populations in Singapore. A mixed method comprising a survey of 89 social workers and a focus group discussion was utilized. Findings suggest that clinical experiences with LGB clients, years of practice, and religious affiliations influence their work with this population. Recommendations include the need for more LGB-specific research and training, and review of practice supervision and ethical code to address practice dilemmas.
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Weier, Justine, and Graham Davidson. "Remote rural community perceptions of ethical psychological practice." South Pacific Journal of Psychology 11, no. 2 (1999): 24–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0257543400000596.
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AbstractAll residents bar one of an isolated rural Australian town were interviewed to obtain their understandings of psychologists' roles vis a vis other professional workers' roles in rural communities, confidentiality expectations and limits to confidentiality, and overlaps between psychologists' professional and their other non-professional social roles. Data were gathered using a Kellian repertory grid technique and analysed using a multidimensional scaling technique. The results indicated that residents construed the psychologist's role as being different from other health or pastoral-counselling professionals' roles. Residents reported a complex array of opinions regarding the application of confidentiality standards, and limits to confidentiality, although all reported that limits to confidentiality should exist. Although residents reported and accepted that psychologists engage in a variety of non-professional, social roles in small rural communities, they also expected that psychologists would clearly differentiate between their professional role and their non-professional roles. Results overall were consistent with research findings with urban residents and with the professional code and guidelines.
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Pritzker, Suzanne, and Katie Richards-Schuster. "Promoting Young People’s Participation: Exploring Social Work’s Contribution to the Literature." Social Work 61, no. 3 (2016): 217–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/sww018.
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Abstract In the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics, social workers are called on to promote meaningful involvement in decision making among vulnerable populations. The ethical imperatives and social justice implications associated with unequal participation suggest that the field of social work is uniquely situated to lead research and practice in the area of youth civic engagement. This article examines the current state of the social work literature regarding how young people participate civically. Authors identified 113 articles on this topic published over the past decade in journals with a large presence in social work or by social work authors. They present the findings of their exploratory research, with a focus on describing where this research is being published, the range of research foci, and the terms used to describe this work. Increased attention to promoting youth civic engagement is needed in the profession’s core journals. Based on the analysis of this literature, they recommend moving toward a cohesive body of social work scholarship that includes increased collaboration among scholars, more unified terms and language, increased range of research foci and methodologies, and more rigorous and comparative testing of strategies by which youths participate civically.
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Korolovych, Oksana. "THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE STUDY OF CORPORATE ETHICS." MEST Journal 9, no. 1 (2021): 54–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.12709/mest.09.09.01.07.
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The article examines some approaches to the understanding of the concept of corporate ethics. The author interprets corporate ethics as a set of moral principles and standards of corporate relations. Corporate ethics is the key element that unites all members of the corporation in a single social organism. Corporate ethics acts as a form of social consciousness inherent in both entrepreneurs and employees who share common goals of their professional activities. It is a non-economic factor having an effective impact on corporation activities. The author analyzes why large organizations characterized by anonymous relations (corporations) establish ethical regulation with all its structural elements (code, ethical committees, etc.). The author makes a distinction between the direct immediate duties of the employee and his/her discretionary duties. Corporate ethics does not hinder efficiency, and it can inspire workers to achieve the organization's main goal. Also, corporate ethics implements in the corporation such functions as the function of protecting the moral prestige of the corporation, the function of defending the interests of members of the corporation, the function of coordinating competing interests, the ambitions of the members of the corporation to ensure cohesion, unity of the group. The implementation of the above functions of corporate ethics can be a competitive advantage for the organization. The author concludes that it is important for the organization to create such a system of moral regulation (structures, institutions) that motivate employees to act morally, in which it would be beneficial to be socially responsible, but that would simultaneously take into account and protect the interests of workers
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Prokop, Jiří. "Dilemata sociálních pracovníků s ohledem na práci s romským etnikiem." Homo et Societas 5 (2020): 49–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/25436104hs.20.004.13237.
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V tomto textu nejprve vymezíme dilemata a popíšeme proces jejich vzniku. Budeme se věnovat popisu dilemat v historii a to prostřednictvím šesti hodnotových a etických směrů. Nastíníme etická dilemata neboli problémy sociálních pracovníků tak, jak jsou pojímány v Etickém kodexu Společnosti sociálních pracovníků České republiky. V další části se budeme věnovat dilematům současné sociální práce. Zvlášť pak ve zkratce popíšeme dilema mezi právem a etikou. Celkem vymezíme osmnáct dilemat a ke každému uvedeme, jak se eventuálně mohou promítnout do práce s romským etnikem. Jedná o osobní zkušenosti autora a také o zkušenosti sociálních pracovníků. Také zde navrhneme možnosti, jak s těmito dilematy pracovat. Dylematy pracowników socjalnych związane z pracą z romską grupą etniczną W tym tekście w pierwszej kolejności zdefiniujemy dylematy oraz opiszemy proces ich powstawania. Skoncentrujemy się na opisie dylematów w historii za pośrednictwem sześciu wartości i kierunków etycznych. Zarysujemy dylematy etyczne oraz problemy pracowników socjalnych tak jak są ujęte w Kodeksie Etyki Pracowników Socjalnych Republiki Czeskiej. W części dalszej zajmiemy się dylematem współczesnej pracy socjalnej. Zdefiniujemy osiemnaście dylematów i podamy jak każdy z nich może rzutować na pracę z romską grupą etniczną. Przedstawione zostaną osobiste doświadczenia Autora jak i doświadczenia pracowników socjalnych. W tej pracy sugerujemy różne możliwości radzenia sobie z dylematami. Dilemmas of social workers with regard to work with the Roma ethnic group In this paper we will first define the dilemmas and describe the process of their their formation. We will describe dilemmas in history through six ethical value and ethical orientations. We will outline the ethical problems of social workers as they are included in the Code of Ethics of the Society of Social Workers oft he Czech Republic. In the next part of we will deal with the dilemmas of contemporary social work. We will define eighteen dilemmas and statefore each of them how they may eventually be reflected in work with the Roma ethnic group. The author’s personal experiences as well as the experiences of social workers will be presented. In this paper we suggest different options for dealing with dilemmas.
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Yearwood, Charla, Rosemary A. Barbera, Amy K. Fisher, and Carol Hostetter. "Dismantling White Supremacy in Social Work Education." Advances in Social Work 21, no. 2/3 (2021): i—vii. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/25652.
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We are excited to share this special edition of Advances in Social Work with you. When we distributed a call for abstracts, we were inundated – in a good way – with proposals. The need for social workers to discuss the role that white supremacy occupies within our history, education, and practice was obvious. Because of the number of abstracts received, we made the decision to publish a double edition so that the important information contained in these articles can be widely shared. The submissions fell into three general themes--historical, instructional, and institutional examinations. Each set of articles offers much for us to reflect and act upon moving forward. There is a reckoning happening and we are thrilled that this special edition is part of that reckoning. In all, we hope that this special issue will help advance our conversations in social work education around white supremacy and how it influences our practice, research, and education. Recognizing that our Code of Ethics calls us to “pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups”, we believe it is important for social work as a profession to consistently evaluate its own institutions for ways we can practice what we preach. As social work educators, we have the ethical and moral responsibility to learn, grow, and challenge ourselves. We can do better. We must do better.
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TONG, SILVIA THERESA. "WHO SHOULD BE THE CASE MANAGER FOR PERSONS WITH MENTAL ILLNESS? SOCIAL WORKER, NURSE OR OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST?" Hong Kong Journal of Social Work 52, no. 01n02 (2018): 101–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219246218000086.
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Case manager for persons with mental illness is a skilled professional who works directly with clients and administers specialized care to them. The ultimate goal is to facilitate clients to re-integrate into the community during their recovery process. In Hong Kong, professionals usually employed as case manager in the community setting are social workers, psychiatric nurses and occupational therapists. In principle, every member of the recovery team could be the case manager. However, who is the best fit for this role? This article discusses which professional would best fill the role of case manager. The role of case manager and their relationship with clients are examined. The article explores the core values, roles, functions and work practice of three disciplines in caring for the mentally ill. The code of ethics, training and characteristic of approaches employed from each discipline are reviewed and discussed. In conclusion, social workers, nurses and occupational therapists share similarities in philosophy and theoretical foundations. Expertise from each discipline complements one another and contributes to the symphony in the recovery journey.
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Вікторія Ісаченко. "MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITY SYSTEM IN SOCIAL WORK." Social work and social education, no. 5 (December 23, 2020): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.31499/2618-0715.5.2020.220764.
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The main management mechanisms of the communicative activity system in social work in Ukraine are considered in the article. The concept of communication in the professional activity of a social worker is revealed. The problems of communicative activity in the management of a social institution are analyzed. The functions of communication in the system of state management of social work are determined. It is established that business communication in the field of social work involves the construction of a holistic and objective process of communicative activity. Communicative activity and communication from different positions and theories are considered. The legal and normative-legal requirements to the communicative competence of the social sphere specialist are clarified. The significance of the "Code of Ethics of specialists in social work of Ukraine" in the work of specialists in the social sphere is revealed. Theoretical, methodological and practical bases of communicative activity in social work are covered. The emphasis is on the world and domestic experience. The article contains theoretical and analytical materials, practical and scientific developments. The article investigates the areas of improving the mechanism of communicative activity, describes the role and importance of the effectiveness of innovative methods of communicative activity in building relationships in society.
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George, Elizabeth Onyedikachi, and Prince Chiagozie Ekoh. "Social workers' perception of practice with lesbians, gays and bisexuals (LGBs) in Nigeria." Journal of Comparative Social Work 15, no. 2 (2020): 56–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v15i2.306.
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People from Low-to-Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) like Nigeria, irrespective of differences in beliefs and sexual orientation, face similar challenges in terms of living standards, access to resources and quality of life. However, people who have been ‘othered’ on the basis of their nonconformity to heteronormativity face additional challenges. The existence of the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act (SSMPA) of 2014, which criminalizes the normalization of homosexual ‘lifestyles’ and the persistence of a homophobic socio-political climate in Nigeria, exposes lesbians, gays and bisexuals (LGBs) in Nigeria to unique difficulties. Although social workers are expected to work, guided by the values of social justice and respect for human rights, with the vulnerable and oppressed in society such as LGBs, the socio-political contexts they operate in can limit how well they do this work. This paper seeks to explore the views of social workers on social work practice with LGBs in Nigeria, with qualitative data obtained from 12 professional social workers using in-depth interviews that were thematically analysed. Findings show that social workers’ perception of practice with LGBs in Nigeria is influenced by existing policies in the country, in addition to cultural and religious beliefs. Some social workers also view LGBs through a medical perspective of homosexuality being an illness, which can affect their work with this population. Recommendations from the study include developing a contextualized ethical code that addresses practice dilemmas and further research centred on the experiences of LGBs and social work practice, as this is one of the few studies on social work practice in Nigeria with this population.
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Carvalho, Fabiana Aparecida de. "A reafirmação do Projeto Ético-Político do Serviço Social: um desafio urgente." Serviço Social e Saúde 10, no. 1 (2015): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/sss.v10i1.1381.
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O presente artigo reflete a necessidade urgente e contemporânea acerca da reafirmação do Projeto Ético-Político da categoria do Serviço Social. Através da participação de alguns fóruns de articulação profissional de base, como reuniões de comissões de conselhos de direito, grupo de estudos e eventos de formação profissional, como palestras e seminários em diversos municípios de diferentes Estados brasileiros, deparei-me com inúmeras assistentes sociais que questionam a legitimidade do Projeto Ético-Político, bem como do próprio Código de Ética da profissão. Trata-se de um evento que destaca um movimento paradoxal entre a academia e a base profissional. Nesse sentido, propõe-se o convite à (re)visitação a esses princípios e à reafirmação dos mesmos. Compreendendo assim, que a práxis profissional deve alcançar a práxis social e materializar-se em lutas políticas em favor de um novo modelo societário, que não seja o capitalismo e a sua insaciável sede de lucro e mais valia. Um modelo que não justifique suas crises capitais para adensar a miséria de muitos seres humanos. Abstract: This article reflects the urgent and contemporary about the reaffirmation of the ethicalpolitical project of the category of Social Work. Through participation in some forums to articulate professional basis, including meetings of committees of boards of law, the study group and training events such as lectures and seminars in various cities of different states of Brazil, I came across numerous social workers who question the legitimacy of the Ethical Political Project, as well as the Code of Ethics of the profession. This is an event that highlights a paradoxical movement between academia and professional basis. Accordingly, it is proposed to call for (re) visitation to the reaffirmation of these principles and the same. Understanding then, that professional practice must achieve social praxis and effect in political struggles in favor of a new corporate model, that is not capitalism and its insatiable thirst for profit and added value. A model that does not justify their attacks to capital deepening the misery of many humans.
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Patrignani, Norberto, and Diane Whitehouse. "Slow Tech: a quest for good, clean and fair ICT." Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 12, no. 2 (2014): 78–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jices-11-2013-0051.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the term Slow Tech as a way of describing information and communication technology (ICT) that is good, clean and fair. These are technologies that are human centred, environmentally sustainable and socially desirable. Design/methodology/approach – The paper's approach is based on a qualitative discourse that justifies the introduction of Slow Tech as a new design paradigm. Findings – The limits of the human body, and the need to take into account human wellbeing, the limits of the planet and stakeholders' interests in decision making, all suggest the need for a new paradigm, Slow Tech, in the design of ICT and ICT systems. Three scenarios are described as case studies. Practical implications – In order to prepare the next generation of researchers and computer professionals, many different actions need to be taken. Universities and colleges need to redesign education programmes for computer scientists and engineers by introducing subjects related to the social and ethical implications of computing (currently, only few countries, like the UK, have already done this), and computer professionals' associations need to introduce a code of ethics or ethical analysis into their members' career development. As a result, future computer professionals who are familiar with the Slow Tech approach will be able to collaborate much more easily across the kind of cross disciplinary teams suited to design human centred, sustainable and desirable technologies. Social implications – Rather than simply focusing on the role of computer professionals, all members of society are called to play a new role in the design of future ICT scenarios. Starting a societal dialogue that involves computer professionals, users, researchers, designers, ICT industrialists, and policy makers is very much needed. Originality/value – The value of this paper is in its call for reflection followed by action. Based on an holistic approach to the design of new ICT systems, the paper advocates a new starting point for systems design: it should be based on a long-term view of the desirability and social importance of technologies, their environmental impact and sustainability, and the fairness and equity of the conditions of workers involved in the computing manufacturing processes.
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Machado, Anita. "A Code of Ethics for Social Workers,." Global Bioethics Enquiry Journal 5, no. 3 (2017): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.38020/gbe.5.3.2017.130-133.
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Susic, Esta, Ema Nicea Gruber, and Blazenka Guberina Korotaj. "Training for Person Centered Medicine in a Forensic Hospital." International Journal of Person Centered Medicine 4, no. 3 (2015): 189–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v4i3.481.
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The education and training needed for health professionals performing person centered medicine in a prison hospital is presented. The health professionals involved work in the department for forensic psychiatry of a prison hospital and conduct mandatory psychiatric treatment during a person’s prison sentence using a bio-psycho-social model of treatment and rehabilitation. Such health professionals work with mentally ill people having partially diminished capacity who perpetrated criminal activities and were sentenced according to the Croatian Criminal Code or Criminal Procedures Act and the Law for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness. Required professional skills include capabilities to provide person-centered psychiatric treatment aimed at reducing psychopathology, articulating theoretical concepts, therapeutic procedures, health professionals' roles and self-understanding, interpersonal issues, relations between patient/prisoner and health professional, ethical dilemmas, and challenges establishing partnerships. Since each patient is also a person serving a prison sentence, the health professional must also know the legislative framework, work as a civil servant, pass the State service examination and be part of a team with different types of other professionals, particularly social workers, occupational therapists, prison officers, court officers, and state officers. For health professionals to practice person centered medicine in a prison setting is a quite demanding and stressful challenge. It may be the hardest way to practice, but it is the right way to do it.
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Martin, Sean. "Being Pono: Ethical dilemmas as learning tools for student social workers." Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work 28, no. 1 (2016): 68–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.11157/anzswj-vol28iss1id121.
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Social workers in Aotearoa New Zealand are bound by codes of practice and ethics, including the three Maori values of tika, pono and aroha. Ethical dilemmas occur frequently in practice situations for social workers. Student social workers on practicum may have to face these issues not only in regard to work with service users, but also in the behaviour and actions of the social workers and staff in the agency in which they are placed. Given the evidence regarding the disjuncture of learning transfer between theoretical and practical settings, this article argues that ethics and whistle-blowing issues faced by social work students are beneficial experiences in terms of translating theory and belief into practice.
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Bowles, Wendy, Heather Boetto, Peter Jones, and Jennifer McKinnon. "Is social work really greening? Exploring the place of sustainability and environment in social work codes of ethics." International Social Work 61, no. 4 (2016): 503–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872816651695.
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This article examines the extent to which issues of environmental sustainability are represented in three national social work codes of ethics – the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia. These national codes are discussed and implications for social work are analysed with a view to strengthening the profession’s position regarding environmental sustainability. Findings suggest that national codes do not include concern for environmental sustainability as a core professional concern. The authors make recommendations for developing ethical practice and further argue that the international professional body of social work, the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW), should take a fundamental leadership role in advocating for environmental sustainability.
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Goniewicz, Mariusz, Patryk Rzońca, Jadwiga Klukow, Jakub Pawlikowski, Jarosław Sak, and Krzysztof Goniewicz. "DNR declaration — emergency medical system nurses’ opinions." Open Medicine 8, no. 1 (2013): 69–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/s11536-012-0092-y.
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AbstractAdvance directive and other declarations of will made by patients in a case of mental illness still raise ethical and legal issues. In Poland there is no legal regulation, neither research about code of conduct in situation of do not attempt resuscitation. There are also not enough studies regarding Healthcare workers’ opinion about DNAR declaration (Do Not Attempt Resuscitation). The study is aimed at finding out emergency medical system nurses opinion on the subject of enforcing do not attempt resuscitation in situation of circulatory and respiratory arrest. Methods: The research was conducted by means of the diagnostic survey method applying a self — constructed questionnaire. The study was carried out among 82 (100%) nurses, from September to December 2011. Obtained information were analyzed statistically, Chi-square of independence with assumed p ≤ 0.05. level of significance was used for statistical analysis. Results: The study of the respondents’ opinion shows that 67% Healthcare employees think that DNAR declaration should be obligatory in Poland. Contrary opinion has 7.3% of respondents. In their opinion the decision to refrain from resuscitating should be made by attending physician − 46.3% and medical board − 29.3%. Information enclosed within DNAR declaration, in most of respondents’ opinion − 59.5%, should be only passed on in written form. Conclusions: Majority of respondents agree that patients have a right to refrain from resuscitating as a self − determination act. Respondents concur the introduction of DNAR declaration in Polish Healthcare system. In respondents’ opinion that decision should be required in written form and an attending physician should decide about its implementation, what violates the existing rule. The execution of living will declaration raises ethical issues. Additionally, it also appears as public/social problem. The last stage of incurable disease is given as justifiable circumstances of DNAR.
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Mapp, Susan, Jane McPherson, David Androff, and Shirley Gatenio Gabel. "Social Work Is a Human Rights Profession." Social Work 64, no. 3 (2019): 259–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/swz023.
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AbstractAs defined by the International Federation of Social Workers, social work is a human rights profession. This is explicitly stated in the professional codes of ethics in many nations. However, the most recent version of the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers continues to exclude any mention of human rights, fitting in with the history of U.S. exceptionalism on this subject. Social workers around the world have a long history of working for the achievement of human rights, including an explicit grounding of practice in human rights principles: human dignity, nondiscrimination, participation, transparency, and accountability. Utilizing these principles, U.S. social workers can move from the deficit model of the needs-based approach to competently contextualizing individual issues in their larger human rights framework. In this way, social work can address larger social problems and make way for the concurrent achievement of human rights. This article explains these principles and provides a case example of how to apply them in practice.
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Doucet, Andrea. "Decolonizing Family Photographs: Ecological Imaginaries and Nonrepresentational Ethnographies." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 47, no. 6 (2018): 729–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891241617744859.
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This article lays out my process of developing an ecological and nonrepresentational approach for conducting an ethnography of family photos as objects of investigation, practices, and sites for the making and remaking of decolonizing stories and histories. It is rooted in a three-part project on family photographs: first, an ongoing project with a three-generation Indigenous family who has a history with Canada’s residential school system; second, revisiting my own family photo albums that include photos of missionary nuns in my family who had worked in Indigenous schools and communities in the 1950s–60s; and third, the development of a politico-ethico-onto-epistemological approach for viewing and analyzing family photos and narratives from and about photographs. The article focuses on the latter two parts of this project. Informed by my reading of Lorraine Code’s “ecological thinking” approach to knowledge making, I bring Code into conversation with Phillip Vannini’s “nonrepresentational ethnographies” combined with new materialist writing on performativity and vitality; selected Indigenous scholars’ writing on ontological multiplicity, knowledge making as relationship, and the making of life worlds; Margaret Somers’s approach to nonrepresentational narratives and ontological narrativity; and Annette Kuhn’s work on analyzing family photographs and cultural memory. I demonstrate this approach through the analysis of one of my family photos. I also reflect on the ethical challenges of attempting to analyze a different kind of family photo, such as photos of residential schooling that are increasingly on display in media, online, and in public venues. I argue for the need to address representational issues of social injustice in nonrepresentational approaches and a recognition that there are sites and times—especially in cases of human rights abuses, violence, or trauma—when nonrepresentational ethnographies and narratives call for strategic negotiation with representation.
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Chakraborty, S. K., Verghese Kurien, Jittu Singh, et al. "Management Paradigms Beyond Profit Maximization." Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers 29, no. 3 (2004): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0256090920040308.
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The dominant paradigm today, both in corporate management and in business educa- tion, is profit maximization and maximization of the wealth of the owners. But, the obsession with ‘profit at any cost,’ when carried to an extreme, can lead to Enrons, WorldComs, and Parmalats and the shortening of hundreds of thousands of lives in sweat shops. Fortunately, alternatives have appeared that successfully blend concern for profits with humane concerns. Today, virtually, every Fortune 500 company has adopted a code of conduct and put in place the needed management structures and processes to ensure compliance. Similarly, corporate social responsibility has gathered momentum. Spirituality in management, the democratization of the workplace including internal justice systems and ‘good citizenship’ behaviour in the organization, and catering to the needs of all the stakeholders-not just shareholders-are some of the other offshoots of humane corporate management. In a developing country context, in which there are so many battles to be won against poverty and deprivation and in which a society needs to be modernized without losing track of its ethical and spiritual moorings, humane business management is a necessity. In this colloquium, our panel members addressed the following issues: What humane alternatives there are to mindless commercialism and how to manage each alternative without loss of profitability. How to enrich business practices and what we teach in business schools with these new paradigms of management. The salient features of the responses are as follows: The globalization strategy of a few powerful nations has robbed country after country of its right to choose its own path-not only economic but cultural as well-with the new milieu verging on the inhumane. An immense effort is necessary to nourish humane values as the cause and ethical conduct as a consequence. Cooperative enterprises or new workers' enterprises can provide the organiza- tional means whereby a significant proportion of humanity takes on the tasks of creating productive employment and overcoming poverty, thus achieving social integration without placing undue importance on the interests of capital providers. Enduring companies have demonstrated that by simultaneously attending to a variety of stakeholders and focusing on composite goals, rather than profit maximization alone, it is possible to acquire and maintain industry leadership. Firms need to move from a feudal relationship with their business partners to a ‘strategic partnership’ and invest more in hygiene factors and HRD for long-term employee satisfaction, performance, and development. The need is to evolve through dialogue among businessmen, government, and civic society a consensus on what the social responsibility of business is and what are legitimate and illegitimate actions. A larger social conscience can emerge if corporate leaders recognize that they cannot ensure long-term growth without generating sufficient ‘social capital.’ ‘Social capital’ involves the creation of trust, reciprocity, and tolerance of third party actions. There is a bonus from corporate social responsibility, ethicality, and spirituality in terms of stronger staff bonding with the organization and stronger motivation. This can be converted into higher productivity, better product quality, better and faster implementation of the needed changes and innovations.
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Congress, Elaine, and Donna McAuliffe. "Social work ethics." International Social Work 49, no. 2 (2006): 151–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872806061211.
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English This article compares and contrasts two main areas of the Australian and US codes of ethics for social workers. These have been selected for comparison because recent revisions in their provisions about dual relationships and confidentiality raise challenging questions about acceptable practice standards. French Cet article compare et contraste deux grands domaines des codes d'éthique pour les travailleurs sociaux d'Australie et des Etats-Unis. Ces deux codes d'éthique ont été sélectionnés pour comparaison en raison de leurs récentes révisions aux niveaux des 'relations doubles' et de la confidentialité. Ces questions posent des défis de taille quant aux normes de pratiques acceptables. Spanish Se comparan dos áreas principales de los códigos de trabajo social de Australia y de los Estados Unidos. Se eligieron estos dos códigos para comparación porque sus revisiones recientes acerca de relaciones duales y de secreto profesional suscitan cuestiones difíciles acerca de estándares aceptables.
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Swain, Phillip A. "Procedurally fair? Fairly procedural?: … ethics, fairness and welfare practice." Children Australia 24, no. 3 (1999): 34–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s103507720000924x.
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This paper examines the principles of procedural fairness and their application to welfare practice. The paper considers whether social workers ought to measure the adequacy of their practice, not just against those requirements ususally set out in the professional Codes of Ethics, but also against the procedural fairness expectations of decision-making more usually the province of courts and like bodies. The paper concludes that these expectations are not only in keeping with the Code of Ethics, but that competent practice demands no less of practitioners.
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DiFranks, N. N. "Social Workers and the NASW Code of Ethics: Belief, Behavior, Disjuncture." Social Work 53, no. 2 (2008): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/53.2.167.
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Solas, John. "What kind of social justice does social work seek?" International Social Work 51, no. 6 (2008): 813–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0020872808095252.
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English One of social work's most important practice values is social justice, as cited in the IFSW Code of Ethics. This article deconstructs what the term 'social justice' represents, since it is essential for social work - and the IFSW Code - to be clear about the type of social justice it seeks to uphold. French L'une des plus importantes valeurs du travail social est la justice sociale, telle que citée dans le Code d'éthique et de Déontologie de la FITS (2005). Cet article déconstruit ce que le terme de 'justice sociale' représente, puisqu'il est essentiel pour le travail social - et le Code de la FITS - afin d'être clair sur le type de justice sociale qu'il vise à promouvoir. Spanish Uno de los valores de práctica más importantes del trabajo social es la justicia social, como está descrita en el Código de Ética (2005) del IFSW. Este ensayo describe lo que el término 'justicia social' representa, ya que es esencial en el trabajo social - al igual que el Código del IFSW - para clarificar el tipo de justicia social que se busca mantener.
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Ryder, Robert, and Jeri Hepworth. "AAMFT ETHICAL CODE: “DUAL RELATIONSHIPS”." Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 16, no. 2 (1990): 127–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.1990.tb00833.x.
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