ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which social workers can engage in interprofessional learning about values and ethics so that they are better prepared for interprofessional ethical decision-making in practice. The complexity of organizational structures and workplaces that dominate health, social services, education, legal, environmental, and housing sectors demand coworkers to share decision-making processes that often have ethical dimensions. Moves toward interprofessional education have history dating back some decades, most markedly in the medical, nursing, and allied health fields but then expanding to other disciplines. Alongside knowledge and skills lie values, those principles, beliefs, and attitudes that influence actions, decisions, and behaviors in practice. Most social work codes of ethics set the requirement for professional supervision as an ethical obligation, and using an ethical decision-making model as a way of working through a complex case is a good way of ensuring that continued attention is paid to the ethical dimensions of practice.
