Ethics And Values In Social Work: An Integrated Approach For A Comprehensive Curriculum

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In a unique and student-friendly package, Ethics and Values in Social Work offers a series of learning modules that will ensure graduates receive a comprehensive ethics and values education. Designed to be easily incorporated into any curriculum, each module helps students integrate the knowledge, skills, self-awareness, and critical thinking abilities required for dealing with ethical issues. From applying basic ethical standards of practice to managing complex ethical dilemmas, this textbook equips readers with a range of tools and strategies for responding to ethical questions and concerns. Traditional ethics textbooks provide students with a model for ethical decision making. This breakthrough textbook goes beyond ethical decision making by providing students with a strategic framework for managing ethical issues that includes guidelines for engaging others in ethical discussions and using conflict resolution theory to promote collaborative solutions. Some textbooks introduce students to ethical theories, such as deontology, teleology, and virtue ethics. This textbook goes beyond describing these theories by providing students with opportunities to apply, compare, and contrast these approaches as they relate to various contexts of social work practice. A wealth of case scenarios, discussion questions, and role-play exercises make this an engaging, thought-provoking teaching and learning tool. At a basic level, this textbook teaches students the essential principles and standards that define ethical practice. At a more profound level, Ethics and Values in Social Work inspires students to reach for the highest values of profession: service, dignity and worth of the person, human relationships, integrity, competence, social justice, human rights, and scientific inquiry.

Paperback: 464 pages

Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (October 14, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0195320956

ISBN-13: 978-0195320954

Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 0.8 x 7 inches

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Over a 40-year career in the human services, I became acutely aware of the relevance of ethical behavior on the part of human services workers - whether during my time as a psychiatric hospital volunteer while in college, followed by time spent as a licensed master's-level social worker, or ending with decades spent teaching at 4 universities. I always had an "ethics component" in all my courses -- in some institutions whole courses were devoted to the subject. Over the decades, as the for-profit, entrepreneurial sector made significant in-roads into what were traditionally not-for-profit services,I saw a change in the attiudes of many entering students, and a focus in textbooks and in agency practice toward adopting the for-profit ethos and operational modalities as a matter of "survival". The bottom-line became increasingly a priority highly-valued and influential at all levels of decision-making unfortunately, sometimes to the detriment of the quality of services and their ethical delivery, in my view. It is thus with some pleasure that I appreciate the new textbook by Dr. Allan Edward Barsky. From the start(literally) - the inside front cover, students are presented with a "Framework for Managing Ethical Issues" which is a tip-off that the volume is written in student-friendly language, and covers ethical issues in a comprehensive manner -- including their impact on risk management, on resolving conflict, distinctions between "the ethical" and "the legal", and a host of other issues which impact the intersection of ethics and values in social work (and the other human services as well).

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