This text can be used as a main text for a social work ethics course, or as a supplement in introductory, practice, or practicum courses. It provides a unique integration of theory and practice, by presenting cases that evoke ethical dilemmas that students are likely to encounter in their practice, and offering models for classifying value conflicts and making ethical decisions.
The text incorporates the most up-to-date issues that students are likely to face in practice, including managed care, welfare reform, assisted suicide, child abuse and adoption, domestic violence, determining the capacity of the elderly, confidentiality in a high-tech age, lay-professional relationships, and conflicts between personal and professional values.
This how-to approach provides a way of thinking about values and ethics that permits the student or practitioner to make his or her own decisions, based on rational decision-making models. The author has provided numerous cases and a number of tables that encapsulate the ethical conflicts among the parties to help students visualize and understand the issues and processes involved in resolving ethical dilemmas.
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Each chapter ends with "Conclusion."
Cases.
Tables.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
I.VALUES.
1.The Nature and Function of Values.
Definition.
Values and Knowledge.
Functions of Values.
Classification of Values.
Professional Values versus Client Values.
2.Values Classification.
Illustrative Cases and Analysis.
3.Personal Values versus Professional Values.
What to Do with Personal Values?
Strategies for Conflict Resolution.
II.ETHICS.
4.Ethics in Social Work.
A Time Line of Social Work's Code of Ethics.
Definition.
Ethics and Morals.
General Ethics versus Professional Ethics.
A Model of Ethical Decision Making.
The Tyranny of Principles.
Sources of Professional Ethics.
Social Work Ethics.
5.Confidentiality.
Confidentiality.
Privileged Communication.
Informed Consent.
6.Domestic Violence.
Patterns and Scope of the Problem.
Public Policy Development.
Professional Values.
7.Child Welfare.
Child Abuse and Neglect.
Adoption.
8.Welfare Reform.
The Scope of Welfare.
Provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work.
Opportunity Act.
Moral Perspectives.
The Political Right on the Morality of Welfare Recipients.
The Ideology and Values of the Social Work Community.
Moral Dilemmas.
9.Managed Care.
Characteristics and Functions of Managed Care.
Ethical Dilemmas in Managed Behavioral Health Care.
10.Lay-Professional Relationships.
Circumventing the Waiting List.
Fund-Raising.
III.AUTONOMY AND PATERNALISM.
11.Autonomy versus Paternalism.
The Principle of Respect for Autonomy.
Autonomy as Self-Determination.
The Principle of Benefience.
Paternalism.
Decision-Making Capacity.
Community as a Counterprinciple.
Autonomy and Paternalism in Social Work Practice.
12.Refusal of Services.
Illustrative Cases and Analysis.
13.Assisted Suicide.
The Philosopher's Brief.
Religious Perspectives.
The Supreme Court Decision.
Medical Practice.
The Social Work Approach.
14.Spirituality, Ethics and Social Work in Long-Term Care.
Determining Capacity.
Refusal of Nutrition and Hydration.
Spirituality and Religion.
Case Study for Panel Discussion.
Questions for the Panel.
The Protestant Perspective.
The Catholic Perspective.
The Muslim Perspective.
The Jewish Perspective.
The Hindu Perspective.
The Social Work Perspective.
Epilogue: Social Work Ethics in Practice.
Values in Conflict.
Ethical Decision-Making.
Ethics in Practice.
The Ethics of Ambiguity.
Ethics and Character.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
