Code of Ethics Flashcards
What is the primary mission in the social work profession?
enhance human well-being and help meet the basic human needs of all people, with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty
What’re the core values in social work?
-Service
-Social Justice
-Dignity and Worth of the Person
-Importance of Human Relationships
-Integrity
-Competence
What six purposes does the NASW Code of Ethics serve?
-Identifies core values on which social work’s mission is based
-Summarizes broad ethical principles that reflect the profession’s core values and establishes a set of specific ethical standards that should be used to guide social work practice
-Designed to help social workers identify relevant considerations when professional obligations conflict or ethical uncertainties arise
-Provides ethical standards to which the general public can hold the social work profession accountable
-Articulates standards that the social workers are required to cooperate in its implementation, participate in NASW adjudication proceedings, and abide by any NASW disciplinary rulings or sanctions based on it
Ethical Principles: Value
service
social worker’s primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems
Ethical Principles: Social Justice
social workers challenge social injustice
Ethical Principles: Dignity and Worth of the Person
social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person
Ethical Principles: Importance of Human Relationships
social workers recognize the central importance of human relationships
Ethical Principles: Integrity
social workers behave in a trustworthy manner
Ethical Principles: Competence
social workers practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise
Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibilities to Clients: Commitment to Clients
social worker’s primary responsibility is to promote the well-being of clients
social workers’ responsibility to the larger society or specific legal obligations may on limited occasions supersede the loyalty owed clients, and clients should be so advised
Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibilities to Clients: Self-Determination
social workers respect and promote the right of clients to self-determination and assist clients in their efforts to identify and clarify their goals
Glossary of Terms: Lesser Eligibility
welfare grants should not be higher than the lowest paying job in society
Cloward and Piven note that the principle represents a way to control labor and to maintain incentives for workers to accept low-paying or undesirable jobs that they might otherwise reject
the concept of Less Eligibility derives from Elizabethan Poor Law and suggests economic and wage issues underpin the size of benefits and the availability of welfare
Glossary of Terms: Incremental Changes
small changes built on each other
Glossary of Terms: Putative Father
alleged father of a child born out of wedlock
Glossary of Terms: Socioeconomic Status
determined by education, occupation, and income of head of household
