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