Review Flashcards
What is the NASW?
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is a professional organization in the United States that represents and supports social workers. The mission of the NASW is to enhance the well-being of individuals, families, and communities, while also promoting and ensuring the highest standards of the social work profession.
What is the CSWE?
The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) is a national association in the United States that is responsible for accrediting social work education programs. The primary purpose of CSWE is to promote and maintain the quality of social work education at the undergraduate and graduate levels. CSWE governs various aspects of social work education, including accreditation standards, curriculum guidelines, and program evaluations.
What are values?
Values refer to the core beliefs, principles, and standards that guide and influence an individual’s attitudes, choices, behaviors, and decisions. These are deeply ingrained convictions that shape a person’s character and serve as a foundation for ethical and moral conduct. Values can be influenced by various factors, including culture, religion, family, personal experiences, and societal norms.
What are ethics?
Ethics provides a framework for individuals and societies to make decisions and judgments about what is morally acceptable and to establish standards for conduct.
What are the 6 social work ethical values/principles?
service
social justice
dignity and worth of the person
importance of human relationships
integrity
competence
How is the ethical principle of “Service” defined in the NASW Code of Ethics?
Social workers elevate service to others above self-interest. Social workers draw on their knowledge, values, and skills to help people in need and to address social problems. Social workers are encouraged to volunteer some portion of their professional skills with no expectation of significant financial return (pro bono service).
How is the ethical principle of “social justice” defined in the NASW Code of Ethics?
Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people. Social workers’ social change efforts are focused primarily on issues of poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social injustice. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision making for all people.
How is the ethical principle of “Dignity and worth of the person” defined in the NASW Code of Ethics?
Social workers treat each person in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers promote clients’ socially responsible self-determination. Social workers seek to enhance clients’ capacity and opportunity to change and to address their own needs. Social workers are cognizant of their dual responsibility to clients and to the broader society. They seek to resolve conflicts between clients’ interests and the broader society’s interests in a socially responsible manner consistent with the values, ethical principles, and ethical standards of the profession.
How is the ethical principle of “Importance of Human Relationships” defined in the NASW Code of Ethics?
Social workers understand that relationships between and among people are an important vehicle for change. Social workers engage people as partners in the helping process. Social workers seek to strengthen relationships among people in a purposeful effort to promote, restore, maintain, and enhance the well-being of individuals, families, social groups, organizations, and communities.
How is the ethical principle of “integrity” defined in the NASW Code of Ethics?
Social workers are continually aware of the profession’s mission, values, ethical principles, and ethical standards and practice in a manner consistent with them. Social workers should take measures to care for themselves professionally and personally. Social workers act honestly and responsibly and promote ethical practices on the part of the organizations with which they are affiliated.
How is the ethical principle of “Competence” defined in the NASW Code of Ethics?
Social workers continually strive to increase their professional knowledge and skills and to apply them in practice. Social workers should aspire to contribute to the knowledge base of the profession.
Define the term “competencies”.
Competencies refer to the combination of knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that individuals possess and can effectively apply in specific roles or situations.
What is competency 1 as stated in the CSWE EPAS?
Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior
What’s the difference between a principle and a theory?
a theory is a broader and more comprehensive framework that explains and predicts phenomena, while a principle is a fundamental truth or guideline that guides behavior or decision-making
The NASW Code of Ethics identifies 6 areas in which social workers have ethical responsibilities. What are those 6 areas?
Clients
Colleagues
Practice Settings
as Professionals
the Social Work Profession
Broader Society
What is an ethical dilemma?
An ethical dilemma presents a choice that must be made between two mutually exclusive courses of action
How are dilemma formulations written?
________________ v _________________
What are information sources used to gather information regarding a dilemma, to decide on a solution?
interviews with client(s)
clients’ natural & formal supports
colleagues & supervisors
policy manuals
laws
books & web research
other involved professionals
What is informed consent?
Informed consent is a process through which individuals are provided with relevant information regarding treatment, a program, or research study, enabling them to make voluntary and well-informed decisions about whether to participate or proceed
What is free will?
the ability to make choices
What are the 4 components that are necessary to exercise free will?
- having the information needed to make a decision
- having the ability to understand, reason, and reflect clearly and logically about the problem
- having choices of courses of action
- having the ability to put one’s selected choice into action
What are the 5 frameworks for ethical decision making as stated in the text book?
Reamer’s Application of Gewirth’s Principles Hierarchy
Dolgoff, Harrington, & Loewenberg’s Ethical Principles Screen
A Bioethics Perspective: The Medical Model, Beauchamp & Childress
Social Justice: John Rawls’s Framework for Decision Making
Ethics of Care, Carol Gilligan, Nel Noddings
