By Ralph Dolgoff
Moral judgements FOR SOCIAL paintings perform may also help you know moral concerns and dilemmas, cause conscientiously approximately moral matters, make clear your moral aspirations on the point demanded by means of the career, and accomplish a extra moral stance on your perform. It areas moral choice making in the context ethics and offers directions, together with moral monitors, that will help you determine priorities between competing moral tasks.
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If you are an excellent social work practitioner, it is unlikely that you will experience any difficulty living up to the ethical standards expressed in the Code. Cultural diversity is an important consideration in social work ethical decision making. The personal values of a professional social worker play no part in ethical decision making. 3 1. Why should social workers be ethical in their professional practices? 2. If you had to create a Code of Ethics for the social work profession based on your experiences and knowledge, what would you select as the three most important general principles?
There is a general assumption that human service professionals have an ethical duty to obey the law. However, “in some circumstances, competing ethical principles may be so fundamental that they justify disobedience of the law” (Melton, 32 CHAPTER 2 1988, p. 944). This dilemma is highlighted by the Tarasoff decision (Tarasoff v. 2nd 334 at 340). The wider implications of this decision will be discussed in detail in Chapter 8. Here we will only note that, in Tarasoff, the California Supreme Court held that in some situations the welfare and safety of the community may be more important than the confidentiality principle.
Additional exemplars and a glossary will be found in the appendices. ” Answers and explanations for each pretest question are presented after the competency notes at the end of this chapter. Ethical issues will continue to cause discomfort even after this book has been completed: Every decision a social worker makes entails ethical risks. Perhaps the most agonizing of these risks is the danger of making a choice that may hurt or damage a client or someone else. Nevertheless, a fear of doing harm that leads to inaction can interfere with doing the right thing.
