Rethinking Values and Ethics in Social Work
1st Edition
Published on 16. September 2017
256 pages
978-1-137-45503-1 (ISBN)
Description
Ethics and values, the cornerstone of good social work practice, are vital in upholding the dignity of service users. Written by a group of global experts, this book addresses questions such as, 'How can the ethical demands of the values of human rights, social justice and professional integrity be understood for contemporary social work practice?'
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-137-45503-1 (9781137455031)
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Richard Hugman | Jan Carter
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Social Work Ethics and Values in Turbulent Times
- Introduction
- The public and the private
- On conscience
- References
- 2 Human Rights and Ethics
- Introduction
- Point of departure: understanding human rights
- Defining human rights
- Collective versus individual human rights
- Role of the United Nations and social workorganizations
- Universalism and cultural relativism
- Guidelines for analysing cultural relativism
- Overview of social work ethics
- Connecting human rights to social work ethics
- Conclusion
- References
- 3 Social Justice
- Introduction
- Social justice and the evolution of social work
- Social justice and the evolution of social work
- Summary
- Conclusion: implications for social work practice
- References
- 4 Professional Integrity: From Conformity to Commitment
- Introduction
- Professional integrity as a complex moral quality
- Philosophical perspectives on integrity
- Versions of professional integrity
- Cases
- Reflections on the cases
- Conclusion: developing professional integrity
- Acknowledgements
- References
- 5 Power and Authority in Social Work Practice: Some Ethical Issues
- Introduction
- Power and authority: the inevitable ground ofsocial work
- Power and authority: the ethical challenge
- Case study: child protection
- The ethics of power and authority in practice
- Conclusion
- References
- 6 The Political Ethics of Care and Feminist Posthuman Ethics: Contributions to Social Work
- Introduction
- The ethics of care and posthuman ethics approaches
- Definition of care
- The phases of care and their moral elements
- The integrity of care
- Uses of the political ethics of care in social work
- Further ways in which care and posthuman ethics arerelevant to social work
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- 7 The Political is Personal: On Being, Knowing, and Doing Something About Social Justice
- Introduction
- Social work, cross-border migration and the questionof social justice
- Espérance's Story
- The person-structure interface and justice as practice
- Reflexivity, affect and justice as process
- Espérance's story revisited
- Conclusion: towards a relational and affectiveframework for just practice
- References
- 8 Shifting From a Rights-based Social Work to a Responsibility-based Social Work: An Initial Articulation
- Introduction
- Rights-based social work: theoretical underpinningsand critics
- Philosophical underpinnings of rights and implicationsfor social work practice
- Critiques of the language of rights and theirimplications for social work
- Responsibility-based social work: an initial articulation
- Individual responsibility and its implications for socialwork practice
- The dilemma of legal and moral responsibilities and itsimplications for social work practice
- Collective responsibility and its implications for socialwork practice
- Conclusion: dialectics between rights and responsibility
- References
- 9 Ethics and Settler Societies: Reflections on Social Work and Indigenous Peoples
- Introduction
- Overview of Indigenous Peoples
- Colonization and the ongoing undermining of sovereignty
- Human rights and Indigenous Peoples
- The United Nations and Indigenous Peoples
- Indigenous Peoples and social work: the positions ofprofessional organizations
- Indigenous Peoples and the social work profession:friends or foes?
- Intersections between professional ethics andindigenous values
- Case example
- Conclusion: where do we go from here?
- References
- 10 A Critical Analysis of Social and Environmental Justice: Reorienting Social Work to an Ethic of Ecological Justice
- Introduction
- Social work, ethics and social justice
- Challenges in defining social justice
- Extending social justice to the environment
- Environmental justice
- Critical analysis of social and environmental justice
- Shallow justice
- Reconsidering justice
- Ecological justice: an ecocentric approach to justice
- Conclusion: implications
- References
- 11 Social Work Ethics in Community Practice
- Introduction
- A historical legacy
- The context that shapes ethics
- Applying the social work codes of ethics
- Making ethical decisions in practice
- Conclusion
- References
- 12 Ethics in Organizations
- Introduction
- Organizations as sites of action
- Accountability as responsibility taking
- Pursuing social work values and ethics in acollaborative way
- Conclusion
- References
- 13 Postmodern Ethics for Practice
- Introduction: the postmodern position
- Bauman's ethics perspective
- Bauman on social work
- Applying Bauman to social work
- A postmodern critical perspective
- Conclusion: building on Bauman for social work
- Notes
- References
- 14 Rethinking Values and Ethics in Social Work: The Way Forward
- Introduction
- Two consciences: the social and the moral
- Important debates in social work values and ethics
- Contemporary debates: 'moral outrage' and thepursuit of meaning
- Revisiting the 'means-ends' chain
- Conclusion - values and ethics as process and as purpose
- References
- Index
