ABSTRACT

The Ethical Foundations of Social Work provides you with an engaging, theoretical and practice-based grounding in social work ethics. The authors first examine when, how and why principles and debates historically emerged, then explicitly map them onto everyday ethical challenges and situations in social work practice. As a result, the book promotes an ethically conscious approach where principles can be flexibly and confidently applied as tools to help you with critical problem solving.

part |45 pages

What is Social Work?

chapter Chapter1|24 pages

Social work histories

chapter Chapter2|19 pages

Ethics and values in social work

part |66 pages

The Social Dimensions of Social Work Ethics

chapter Chapter3|19 pages

Power in social work

chapter Chapter4|19 pages

The idea of empowerment in social work

chapter Chapter5|24 pages

Bureaucracy and social work

part |74 pages

Theorising Ethical Practice

chapter Chapter6|22 pages

Respect for the person, self-determination and the idea of universality

The Kantian perspective

chapter Chapter7|27 pages

Social justice

The ethics of Mill and Rawls

chapter Chapter8|22 pages

Professionalism in social work

Character-and relationship-based approaches to ethics