Ethics Flashcards

1
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What organization last updated in 2017, stands for national association of social workers?

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NASW

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2
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What six things does NASW do?

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  1. Identifies core values
  2. Summarizes ethical principles + specific standards guiding practice
  3. Identifies relevant factors when obligations conflict or when uncertainties come up
  4. Allows for general accountabilities
  5. Socializes practitioners that are new
  6. Expands on unethical standards
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3
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Who established code of ethics for social workers?

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NASW

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4
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What role did NASW have?

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It established Code of Ethics

NASW established the code of ethics

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5
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Code of ethics do what?

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Serve as guide to social worker daily professional conduct

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6
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Original mission of social work profession?

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  • Enhance (improve) well-being of humans
  • Aid people getting basic needs
  • Especially oppressed people, vulnerable, living in poverty
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7
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What is fundamental to social work?

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-Attention to environmental forces contribute + address issue of living

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8
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True or false: social workers promote social justice + change w/on behalf of others?

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True

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9
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True or false: Clients used inclusively to refer to individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities?

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True

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10
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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?

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True

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How do social workers strive to end discrimination, oppression, poverty, and other forms of social injustice? Activities in form of?

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Direct practice
Community organizing 
Supervision
Consulting
Administration
Advocacy
Social or political action
Policy development
Policy implementation
Social action
Political action
Research
Evaluation
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12
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Social workers seek to do what?

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To enhance the capacity of people to address their own needs

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13
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Social workers seek to promote what?

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Responsiveness of organizations, communities, social institutions to people’s needs and society’s problems

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14
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True or false: the mission of the profession of social work is rooted in a set (group) of core values?

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True

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15
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What are core values embraced by social workers w/in profession’s history, foundation of social work’s purpose+ perspective:

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Acronym to remember by:
SSDHIC-
“singing songs does have intellectual components”

Service
Social Justice
Dignity + person worth
Human relationship significance
Integrity
Competence
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16
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_________ ______ are at the core of social work

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Professional ethics

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17
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What does profession have obligation to articulate?

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BEE
Basic values
Ethical principles
Ethical standards

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18
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What is relevant to all social workers and students regardless of their professional functions, settings in which they work or populations they serve:

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The Code

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19
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True or false: NASW is used by licensing/regulatory boards?

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True

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20
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Can a code of ethics guarantee ethical behavior?

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No

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21
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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?

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No

22
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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.

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True

23
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True or false: Social workers ethical behavior should come from personal commitment to engage in ethical practice.

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True

24
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5 sources of ethical dilemmas?

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  1. standards conflicting with each other
  2. standards conflicting with institutional demands
  3. loyalties conflicting with each other
  4. good solutions seem unattainable
  5. when professionals finds it hard to stick to ethical standards
25
Q

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.

A

True

26
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What are the standards valued within code of ethics?

Principal Ethical Standards:

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  • Self-determination/autonomy
  • Informed consent
  • Professional competence
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Dual and sexual relationships
  • Privacy and confidentiality
  • Supervision
  • Non-discrimination
  • Professionalism
27
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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

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Informed Consent

28
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What principal ethical standard related to allegiance and loyalty to protect those we are working w/in particular bounds (restrictions, boundaries, or territories)?

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Privacy and Confidentiality

29
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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?

A

True

30
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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

A

True

31
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NASW feeds into an organization on a global level (international) level titled what?

A

IFFW

32
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IFFW stands for?

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International federation of social workers

33
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True or false: All social workers, irrespective (or regardless) of their type of practice, can be a part of IFFW?

A

True

34
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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?

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International Association of Schools of social work

35
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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

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IFFW and International Association of Schools of social work

36
Q

What provides us with way to understand social situations, appropriate, professional ways of responding to certain situations?

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The Social Work Code of Ethics

37
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What helps guide how we make decisions, prioritizing what’s necessary?

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Values

38
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When we have a conflict, what helps us see our way through the conflict?

A

Values

39
Q

What are embodied in the professions’ national and international code of ethics?

A

Values

40
Q

What is the foundation of social work practice, purpose and perspective?

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The Core Values of Social Workers

41
Q

What tells us what is good and what is bad?

A

Morals

42
Q

What helps us judge others more than values do?

A

Morals

43
Q

True or false: we typically don’t have morals as a profession?

A

True

44
Q

What is something we have on a personal basis so we distinguish them from ethics?

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Morals

45
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What is codified into a formal system or a set of rules that a profession can adopt?

A

Ethics

46
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What term describes the idea when we don’t think about social workers acting morally or immorally?

A

Ethics

47
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We are more likely to think about social workers acting ethically or unethically with regard to their professional standards. True or false?

A

True

48
Q

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?

A

True

49
Q

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?

A

True

50
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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?

A

True