Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World: Cases and Commentaries

✍ Scribed by Sarah Banks, Kirsten Nøhr

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 297
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World
Copyright
Contents
List of cases by country
List of Tables
List of contributors of cases
Notes on editors and authors of chapter introductions
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Global ethics for social work? A case-based approach
2 Negotiating roles and boundaries
Introduction
Case study 2.1
Case 2.1 Doing harm with a good heart: volunteer social work in a post-disaster situation in China
Commentary 1: Angela On Kee Tsun
Commentary 2: Grant Larson and Julie Drolet
Questions for discussion
Case study 2.2
Case 2.2 ‘When the tables turned’: a social work intern’s moral dilemma in a Botswana police station
Commentary 1: Gloria Jacques and Rodreck Mupedziswa
Commentary 2: Peta-Anne Baker
Questions for discussion
Case study 2.3
Case 2.3 When is it right to accept a gift? A Lithuanian social work student’s dilemma
Commentary 1: Nino Zganec
Commentary 2: Howard Sercombe
Questions for discussion
Case study 2.4
Case 2.4 ‘Why should I have to reveal anything about my personal life?’ A dilemma for a lesbian student in Britain
Commentary 1: Nicki Ward
Commentary 2: Joan C.Tronto
Questions for discussion
3 Respecting rights
Introduction
Case study 3.1
Case 3.1 Issues of choice and coercion: working in a psychiatric hospital in the USA
Commentary 1: Donna Harrington
Commentary 2: Siu-man Ng
Questions for discussion
Case study 3.2
Case 3.2 The reluctant vegan: the case of an older man in a Swedish care home
Commentary 1: Titti Fränkel and Erik Blennberger
Commentary 2: Hilde Lindemann
Questions for discussion
Case study 3.3
Case 3.3 Social work in Vietnam: a Dutch student’s perspective
Commentary 1: Nguyen Thi Thai Lan
Commentary 2: Richard Hugman
Questions for discussion
Case study 3.4
Case 3.4 Ethical issues in international social work research: a case from India
Commentary 1: P. K. Visvesvaran
Commentary 2: Wendy Bowles and Margaret Alston
Questions for discussion
4 Being fair
Introduction
Case study 4.1
Case 4.1 Dilemmas in working with an illegal migrant: a case from Japan
Commentary 1: Akira Namae
Commentary 2: Shimon E. Spiro
Questions for discussion
Case study 4.2
Case 4.2 A young man waiting for a transplant: dilemmas for a hospital-based social worker in Britain
Commentary 1: Tamara Catchpole Horsburgh and Lawrence Nuttall
Commentary 2: Amy M. Chow
Questions for discussion
Case study 4.3
Case 4.3 Dilemmas in working with a gypsy family: a story from a Portuguese social educator
Commentary 1: Adalberto Dias de Carvalho, Ana Maria Serapicos, Florbela Samagaio, Gabriela Trevisan, Walter Almeida, Álvaro Faria and Igor Magalhães
Commentary 2: Vivienne Bozalek
Questions for discussion
Case study 4.4
Case 4.4 A gay applicant who wants to adopt a child: a case from Turkey
Commentary 1: Agnes Verbruggen
Commentary 2: Ana M. ˇSobocan
Questions for discussion
5 Challenging and developing organisations
Introduction
Case study 5.1
Case 5.1 Establishing the facts: issues for organisations working with young women in Iran
Commentary 1: Habib Aghabakhshi and Abbas Ali Yazdani
Commentary 2: Beverley Burke
Questions for discussion
Case study 5.2
Case 5.2 Deciding on the right to health care insurance: a case from Peru
Commentary 1: María Jesús Úriz Pemán
Commentary 2: Lynne M. Healy
Questions for discussion
Case study 5.3
Case 5.3 The vicious cycle: issues for a church-based social worker in Australia
Commentary 1: Truus Fraaije, Han Aalbers and Peter van Zilfhout
Commentary 2: Melissa Floyd
Questions for discussion
Case study 5.4
Case 5.4 Bending the law? A case about reporting child abuse in Denmark
Commentary 1: Marianne Skytte
Commentary 2: Chris Beckett
Questions for discussion
6 Working with policy and politics
Introduction
Case study 6.1
Case 6.1 Challenging pernicious policies: working with refugees in Australia
Commentary 1: Sema Buz and Emrah ¸ Akbas
Commentary 2: Linda Harms Smith
Questions for discussion
Case study 6.2
Case 6.2 Maintaining organisational integrity in an area of conflict: a women’s NGO in Pakistan
Commentary 1: Ian Sinclair
Commentary 2: Gracy Fernandes
Questions for discussion
Case study 6.3
Case 6.3 The shrinking welfare state: caring for older people in Finland
Commentary 1: Aira Vanhala
Commentary 2: Hiroshi Kosaka
Questions for discussion
Case study 6.4
Case 6.4 Maintaining professional integrity in an area of conflict: working with a sexually abused girl in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Commentary 1: Mahmoud Baidoun and Jane Lindsay
Commentary 2: David N. Jones
Questions for discussion
7 Working with cases and commentaries
Introduction
Cases without commentaries Case
Case
7.1 Taking money from a dubious source: a dilemma for a social worker in China
Case 7.2 Maintaining professional secrecy: a French ethical situation
Case 7.3 Institutional pressures and social work ethics: a case from Jamaica
Case 7.4 Between education and punishment: dilemmas for a Malaysian youth worker
Case 7.5 Maintaining the rules: a dilemma about a homeless person in Spain
Case 7.6 Balancing a girl’s need with a mother’s decision: a dilemma for a youth worker in Finland
Using cases and commentaries in teaching and learning
Exercise I: Participants analyse a case and reflect on the commentaries
Exercise II: Participants analyse a case and write their own commentary
Exercise III: Participants research issues raised by a case and commentaries
Exercise IV: Using cases as a basis for dialogue, discussion or debate
Exercise V: Using cases as a basis for drama or role play
Exercise VI: Participants write their own cases
Exercise VII: Using cases in web-based learning
Exercise VIII: Using a case as a basis for a written assignment
Index