ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors aim to examine the virtue of courage. They begin by looking at the way in which courage in social work is seen in practice that struggles against opposition or threat in some way. So far they have considered the way in which courage appears as an ethical virtue in practice that struggles against injustice or opposition and practice that exercises authority. Courage is an ethical virtue that they have so far argued is relevant both to the most challenging situations faced by social workers and to obstacles encountered in everyday practice. However, as they have attempted to show, courage is not binary, capable of being only present or absent. The authors have explored the ethical virtue of courage from the perspective that it is central to all ethical virtues in social work.
