Ethical Issues in Social Work (Professional Ethics)

✍ Scribed by Richard Hugman

• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 213
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It has always been recognised that the practice of social work raises ethical questions and dilemmas. Recently, however, traditional ways of addressing ethical issues in social work have come to seem inadequate, as a result of developments both in philosophy and in social work theory and practice. This collection of thought-provoking essays explores the ethics of social work practice on the light of these changes. Ethical Issues in Social Work provides up to date critical analyses of the ethical implications of new legislation in community care and criminal justice, and of trends in social work thought and policy, such as managerialism, user empowerment, feminism and anti-oppressive practice. This study provides important and stimulating reading for social work students and their teachers, and for all practitioners and managers who are concerned about the ethical dimensions of their work.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Notes on contributors......Page 12
1 Ethical issues in social work an overview Richard Hugman and David Smith......Page 14
2 In search of the holy grail Naina Patel......Page 29
3 Ethical issues in social work research Geraldine Macdonald and Kenneth Macdonald......Page 59
4 Confidentiality, accountability and the boundaries of client-worker relationships......Page 78
5 The morally active practitioner and the ethics of anti racist social work Charles Husband......Page 97
6 Feminist ethics in practice Sue Wise......Page 117
7 Managerialism and the ethics of management Maurice Vanstone......Page 133
8 Enforced altruism in community care Ann Davis and Kathryn Ellis......Page 149
9 Can social work empower Julie Browne......Page 168
10 Towards a new view of probation values Mike Nellis......Page 187
Index......Page 212