ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values is a comprehensive exploration and assessment of current and future issues facing social work practice and education. It is the first book to codify ethical practices for social workers from across the globe and in myriad workplace settings.

Each section meaningfully captures this complex subject area:

  • ethics writ large
  • visions of diverse values
  • abortion
  • relationship and gender issues
  • micro and mezzo practice settings
  • social work education
  • technological issues
  • spirituality
  • globalism
  • economic issues
  • special topics

Leaving no stone unturned, this handbook comprehensively addresses the most controversial topics in an evenhanded manner. Among professional social workers, values and ethics traverse political boundaries, cultural identifications, and languages. This handbook will help to make sense of this unity within diversity.

With contributions from the world’s leading scholars, this book will be a valuable resource for all social work students, academics, researchers, and practitioners who seek a coherent and objective analysis in the abstract arena of ethics and values.

part Section I|68 pages

Ethics writ large

chapter 6|8 pages

Social worker self-care

An ethical responsibility

chapter 7|7 pages

The test of a good conscience

part Section II|26 pages

Visions of diverse values

part Section III|26 pages

Abortion

chapter 14|10 pages

Self-determination and abortion access

A pro-choice perspective on the International Statement of Ethical Principles

chapter 15|8 pages

Social work’s first obligation

The role of social workers in protecting unborn children

chapter 16|7 pages

Mercy or murder

Social work and ambivalence over abortion

part Section IV|24 pages

Relationship and gender issues

chapter 17|10 pages

Advocating for self-determination, arriving at safety

How social workers can address ethical dilemmas in intimate partner violence

chapter 18|8 pages

Social work clinical practice and intimate partner violence

A system approach to help reverse the macro and individual effects of violence

part Section VI|18 pages

Mezzo practice settings

chapter 24|10 pages

Ethics and values in social group work

chapter 25|7 pages

Ethical challenges in group work

Potential perils and preventive practices

part Section VII|24 pages

Macro practice settings

chapter 26|7 pages

The ethical geography of macro practice

Human rights to utilitarianism

chapter 28|8 pages

Toward response-able social work

Diffracting care through justice

part Section VIII|26 pages

Social work education

chapter 30|7 pages

Disagreement about ethics and values in practice

Using vignettes to study social work

chapter 31|8 pages

Ethical study abroad

Good intentions aren’t enough

part Section X|26 pages

Spirituality

chapter 37|5 pages

An ethical decision-making model

An Islamic perspective

chapter 38|7 pages

Social work ethics and values

An Arabic-Islamic perspective

part Section XI|50 pages

Globalism

chapter 41|8 pages

Welcoming the stranger

The ethics of policy and practice with migrant and refugee populations

chapter 42|7 pages

From the Welfare State to welfare markets

Organization and management of UK social work/social care

chapter 43|9 pages

Trading the hard road

Social work ethics and the politicization of food distribution in Zimbabwe

part Section XIII|28 pages

Special topics

chapter 48|9 pages

Unconscious awareness

The implicit and oppressive ethical context of bilingual social work practice

chapter 49|8 pages

Interprofessional ethics

Working in the cross-disciplinary moral and practice space