Ethics and Values in Social Work

<p>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. <em>Ethics and Values in Social Work</em> 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.</p>