Ethical decisions for social work practice / Frank M. Loewenberg, Ralph Dolgoff, Donna Harrington.

This classic text is designed to help students recognize ethical issues and dilemma, reason carefully about ethical issues, clarify their ethical aspirations at the level demanded by the profession, and achieve a more ethical stance in their practice. It places ethical decision making within the con...

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Main Author: Loewenberg, Frank M.
Other Authors: Dolgoff, Ralph., Harrington, Donna.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Itasca, Ill. : F. E. Peacock Publishers, c2000.
Edition:6th ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to ethical decision making: Ethical choice in the helping professions; Values and professional ethics; Guidelines for ethical decision making
  • Ethical dilemmas in professional practice: Confidentiality and informed consent; Client rights and professional expertise; Value neutrality and imposing values; Equality, inequality, limited resources, and advocacy; Professional relationship, limits, dilemmas, and problems; Bureaucratic and work relationships; Private practice social work; Changing world/changing problems; Social work with selected client groups; Whose responsibility are professional ethics?
  • Appendixes: Additional exemplars; Codes of Ethics; Glossary.