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544 pp.
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ISBN-13:
9780190678111

Copyright Year:
2019

Imprint: OUP US

Ethics and Values in Social Work

An Integrated Approach for a Comprehensive Curriculum, Second Edition

Allan Edward Barsky

Social work ethics provide practitioners with guidance on how to promote social work values such as respect, social justice, human relationships, service, competence, and integrity. Students entering the profession need to develop a real-world understanding of how to apply these values in practice while also managing the dilemmas that arise when social workers, clients, and others encounter conflicting values and ethical obligations. Ethics and Values in Social Work offers a comprehensive set of teaching and learning materials to help students develop the knowledge, self-awareness, and critical thinking skills required to handle values and ethical issues in all levels of practice - individual, family, group, organization, community, and social policy. BSW and MSW students will particularly appreciate how complex ethical obligations and theories have been translated into plain language. Additionally, the comprehensive set of case examples and exercises provides realistic scenarios to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills across a range of practice situations.

Readership : This book is primarily designed for BSW and MSW students, who will appreciate how complex ethical obligations and theories have been translated into plain language.

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I. Foundations of Values and Ethics
1. Values--Mine, Theirs, and Ours
2. Theory, Values, and Ethics--Macro Perspectives
3. Theory, Moral Decision-Making, and Ethics--Micro Perspectives
4. Research, Values, and Ethics
5. Practice, Values, and Ethics--Social Work with Individuals
6. Practice, Values, and Ethics--Social Work with Families
7. Practice, Values, and Ethics--Social Work with Groups
8. Practice, Values, and Ethics--Social Work with Organizations
9. Practice, Values, and Ethics--Social Work with Communities
10. Policy, Values, and Ethics
Part II. Advanced Values and Ethics
11. Supervision, Values, and Ethics
12. Administration, Values, and Ethics
13. Psychopathology, Mental Health, Values, and Ethics
14. Child Welfare, Values, and Ethics
15. Criminal Justice, Values, and Ethics
16. Elders, Values, and Ethics
17. International Social Work, Values, and Ethics
18. Private Clinical Social Work Practice, Values, and Ethics
Appendix: Worksheet for Managing Ethical Issues
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Instructor's Manual
For each chapter:
- Teaching Strategies
- Discussion Questions and Exercises
- Additional Questions for Tests or Assignments
PowerPoint Slides
- Lecture slides included for each chapter

Allan Edward Barsky, PhD, JD, MSW, is Professor in the Sandler School of Social Work at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Barsky publishes a regular column entitled "Ethics Alive!" in The New Social Worker, available at http://www.socialworker.com/topics/allan barsky.

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Special Features

Provides a range of tools and strategies for identifying, analyzing, and responding to ethical problems, dilemmas, and breaches.

New to this Edition

Includes two entirely new chapters ("International Social Work, Values, and Ethics" and "Private Clinical Social Work Practice, Values, and Ethics").
Covers updates regarding new laws and ethical practice standards, including the revised NASW Code of Ethics (featuring additional standards on the use of technology in social work practice and a major revision on exceptions to confidentiality).
Shares additional material on narrative ethics, virtue ethics, and ethics of care (which assists with the relational and emotional aspects of managing ethical issues).
Features new case studies, discussion questions, and exercises reflecting current and emerging ethical issues (e.g., duties to protect in relation to clients who may be affiliated with terrorist organizations; videoconferencing, social robots, electronic records, apps, and other technology in practice; interprofessional practice; and international practice issues).