Ethical Decisions for Social Work Practice

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F.E. Peacock Publishers, 2000 - 344 pages
This classic text helps students recognize ethical issues and dilemmas, reason carefully about ethical issues, clarify their ethical aspirations at the level demanded by the profession, and achieve a more ethical stance in their practice. It places ethical decision making within the context of professional ethics and provides guidelines, including three ethical screens. Topics include whether ethics can be taught, conflicts between law and ethics, child abuse and confidentiality, client self-determination, client-worker value gaps, dual relationships, end-of-life decisions, and concerns in dealing with the ill, the elderly, and clients with HIV and AIDS.

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Contents

Guidelines for Ethical Decision Making
3
Ethical Choices in the Helping Professions
5
Values and Professional Ethics
19
Copyright

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About the author (2000)

Frank M. Loewenberg is professor emeritus and former director of the School of Social Work of Bar-Ilan University. He is the author of FROM CHARITY TO SOCIAL JUSTICE (Transaction Books, 2001) and recently edited FIFTY YEARS OF SOCIAL WORK IN ISRAEL: MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF A CHANGING SOCIETY (Jerusalem Magnes Press, 1998). He was a contributor to the INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOCIAL POLICY (Routledge, 2004). Ralph Dolgoff is a professor and has served as dean of the University of Maryland School of Social Work, as associate dean and acting dean at Adelphi University, and as senior program specialist at the CSWE. He is co-author of UNDERSTANDING SOCIAL WELFARE: A SEARCH FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, Seventh Edition (Allyn & Bacon, 2007), and is author of AN INTRODUCTION TO SUPERVISORY PRACTICE IN HUMAN SERVICES (Pearson, 2005). Donna Harrington is professor and doctoral program director at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her research focuses on child welfare and child maltreatment.

Bibliographic information

TitleEthical Decisions for Social Work Practice
AuthorsFrank M. Loewenberg, Ralph Dolgoff, Donna Harrington
EditorsFrank M. Loewenberg, Ralph Dolgoff, Donna Harrington
Edition6
PublisherF.E. Peacock Publishers, 2000
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized24 Aug 2007
ISBN087581431X, 9780875814315
Length344 pages
  
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