Ethics and values in social work /
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| Author / Creator: | Banks, Sarah. |
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. |
| Description: | xxvi, 278 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Practical social work series Practical social work. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8778222 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures, lists and tables
- List of practice focus boxes
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The current context of social work
- Terminology: 'social work', 'social workers' and 'service users'
- Terminology: 'ethics' and 'values'
- Ethics, religion and politics
- Rationale and aims of the book
- The structure of the book
- 1. Ethical challenges in social work
- Introduction
- The ethical, the technical and the legal
- Ethical issues, problems and dilemmas
- What are the ethical challenges in social work?
- Social work as a human services profession
- Social work and state welfare systems
- Blame and guilt in social work
- Conclusions
- 2. Principle-based approaches to social work ethics
- Introduction
- The place of religious ethics
- Principles
- Respect and autonomy in the social work relationship: duty-based principles
- Promoting welfare and justice in society: utilitarian principles
- Commitments to emancipation and social justice: the challenge of radical and anti-oppressive principles
- 'Common morality' approaches to ethics
- Conclusions
- 3. Character and relationship-based approaches to social work ethics
- Introduction
- The importance of character in the professional role: virtue-based approaches
- The caring relationship between professional and service user: the 'ethics of care'
- Responding to the call of the other: the ethics of proximity
- Diversity, narrative and constructionism: postmodern ethics?
- The fragmentation of value
- Elements of professional ethics: principles, character, care and relationships
- Towards a situated ethics of social justice
- Conclusions
- 4. Principles into practice: professionalism and codes of ethics
- Introduction
- The traditional model of professionalism and trait theory
- Professional codes of ethics for social work
- The components of codes of ethics
- The functions of codes of ethics
- Some limitations and critiques of codes of ethics
- Conclusions
- 5. Service users' rights: clienthood, citizenship, consumerism and activism
- Introduction
- Rights as valid claims
- Human rights
- Universal versus particular and absolute versus conditional rights
- Relational rights and responsibilities
- Democratic professionalism, consumerism or radicalism?
- Conclusions
- 6. Social workers' responsibilities: policies, procedures and managerialism
- Introduction
- Duties
- 'Relational duties' or responsibilities
- Social work as a 'role-job' with specific duties
- Conflicting responsibilities
- The professional is personal: vocation and commitment in social work
- The professional is political: challenging injustices and 'blowing the whistle'
- The separation of personal, professional and agency values and life
- Committed/radical, professional, technical-bureaucratic and quasi-business models of practice
- The growth of managerialism, authoritarianism and marketization: the case of Britain
- Ethics in bureaucratic and quasi-business settings: defensive, reflective and reflexive practice
- Conclusions
- 7. Ethical problems and dilemmas in practice
- Introduction
- Ethical judgements
- Ethical judgements in context
- Ethical decision-making and 'ethics work'
- Practitioners' accounts of ethical difficulties
- Developing the reflective and reflexive practitioner: case examples from trainee social workers
- When is blame and guilt justified? Case examples from experienced practitioners
- Courage and commitment in multiprofessional working: a team manager's case
- Conclusions
- References
- Index