Ethics Flashcards
What organization last updated in 2017, stands for national association of social workers?
NASW
What six things does NASW do?
- Identifies core values
- Summarizes ethical principles + specific standards guiding practice
- Identifies relevant factors when obligations conflict or when uncertainties come up
- Allows for general accountabilities
- Socializes practitioners that are new
- Expands on unethical standards
Who established code of ethics for social workers?
NASW
What role did NASW have?
It established Code of Ethics
NASW established the code of ethics
Code of ethics do what?
Serve as guide to social worker daily professional conduct
Original mission of social work profession?
- Enhance (improve) well-being of humans
- Aid people getting basic needs
- Especially oppressed people, vulnerable, living in poverty
What is fundamental to social work?
-Attention to environmental forces contribute + address issue of living
True or false: social workers promote social justice + change w/on behalf of others?
True
True or false: Clients used inclusively to refer to individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities?
True
True or false: Social workers are sensitive to cultural and ethnic diversity and aim to end discrimination, oppression, poverty and other types of social injustice?
True
How do social workers strive to end discrimination, oppression, poverty, and other forms of social injustice? Activities in form of?
Direct practice Community organizing Supervision Consulting Administration Advocacy Social or political action Policy development Policy implementation Social action Political action Research Evaluation
Social workers seek to do what?
To enhance the capacity of people to address their own needs
Social workers seek to promote what?
Responsiveness of organizations, communities, social institutions to people’s needs and society’s problems
True or false: the mission of the profession of social work is rooted in a set (group) of core values?
True
What are core values embraced by social workers w/in profession’s history, foundation of social work’s purpose+ perspective:
Acronym to remember by:
SSDHIC-
“singing songs does have intellectual components”
Service Social Justice Dignity + person worth Human relationship significance Integrity Competence
_________ ______ are at the core of social work
Professional ethics
What does profession have obligation to articulate?
BEE
Basic values
Ethical principles
Ethical standards
What is relevant to all social workers and students regardless of their professional functions, settings in which they work or populations they serve:
The Code
True or false: NASW is used by licensing/regulatory boards?
True
Can a code of ethics guarantee ethical behavior?
No
Can a code of ethics resolve all ethical issues, arguments, capture richness or complexity which is undergone to make appropriate choices in a moral community?
No
True or false: A code of ethics lays forth values, ethical principles, and ethical standards (regulations) to which professionals aspire and by which actions can be judged.
True
True or false: Social workers ethical behavior should come from personal commitment to engage in ethical practice.
True
5 sources of ethical dilemmas?
- standards conflicting with each other
- standards conflicting with institutional demands
- loyalties conflicting with each other
- good solutions seem unattainable
- when professionals finds it hard to stick to ethical standards
True or false: respect is given to individuals/communities that are worked with to make own decisions, and at times, their decisions don’t abide by what we see best for situation, individual, or community, but we are guided by our standard to prioritize self-determination and empower people.
True
What are the standards valued within code of ethics?
Principal Ethical Standards:
- Self-determination/autonomy
- Informed consent
- Professional competence
- Conflicts of interest
- Dual and sexual relationships
- Privacy and confidentiality
- Supervision
- Non-discrimination
- Professionalism
What principal ethical standard means we don’t decide we take charge of situation w/out telling population we work w/that this is what we plan on doing, and we received consent to go forward
Informed Consent
What principal ethical standard related to allegiance and loyalty to protect those we are working w/in particular bounds (restrictions, boundaries, or territories)?
Privacy and Confidentiality
True or False: If we are working w/person, family, they need be aware that when they tell us something (talk to us), unless they share info that can harm others or themselves, and being professionals, we are mandated to tell others?
True
True or false: We have a standard that requires (mandates) that we are provided with ongoing, continued supervision, so when practicing, we reflect on what we are learning and we are provided with supervisors who assist us through these situations that we may later down the road.
Non-discrimination + always acting as a professional
True
NASW feeds into an organization on a global level (international) level titled what?
IFFW
IFFW stands for?
International federation of social workers
True or false: All social workers, irrespective (or regardless) of their type of practice, can be a part of IFFW?
True
Organization which brings schools together all around the world discussing professional training to teach social workers, prepare social workers for future and challenges we foresee?
International Association of Schools of social work
What two organizations have developed (created) what they call an international code of ethics that serves as guidelines for ethical practice, and their code of ethics includes having skills we do not practice
IFFW and International Association of Schools of social work
What provides us with way to understand social situations, appropriate, professional ways of responding to certain situations?
The Social Work Code of Ethics
What helps guide how we make decisions, prioritizing what’s necessary?
Values
When we have a conflict, what helps us see our way through the conflict?
Values
What are embodied in the professions’ national and international code of ethics?
Values
What is the foundation of social work practice, purpose and perspective?
The Core Values of Social Workers
What tells us what is good and what is bad?
Morals
What helps us judge others more than values do?
Morals
True or false: we typically don’t have morals as a profession?
True
What is something we have on a personal basis so we distinguish them from ethics?
Morals
What is codified into a formal system or a set of rules that a profession can adopt?
Ethics
What term describes the idea when we don’t think about social workers acting morally or immorally?
Ethics
We are more likely to think about social workers acting ethically or unethically with regard to their professional standards. True or false?
True
True or false: when we say someone is acting unprofessionally, we are really talking about, in most cases, whether they have acted ethically or unethically?
True
True or false: all social workers, no matter what their practice, can be a part of the professional organization called the National association of Schools of social work?
True
True or false: in social work, we respect individuals or communities we work with to make their decisions, and sometimes their decisions don’t necessarily go along with what we see as best for the situation, individual, or community?
True
