Introduction: ethics and value perspectives in social work

Title: Introduction: ethics and value perspectives in social work
Creator: Gray, Mel; Webb, Stephen A.
Relation: Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work p. 1-16
Relation: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=314639
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2010
Description: In social work moral dilemmas are the rule rather than the exception. Social workers often agonize over moral dilemmas. Not only is the subject matter of social work ethics hard to grasp but, more importantly, the practical realities of reaching moral judgements are challenging and extremely complex. Learning about social work ethics requires not only high standards of scholarship but also makes demands on one's experiential and emotional resources. Social workers often have to choose to do either one thing or another. Because of the way practice and the organizational context are arranged, he or she cannot do both in relation to clients. Front-line practitioners face situations where there is often a moral conflict between what seems to be the right course of action.
Subject: social work; moral dilemmas; value perspectives; ethics
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/932787
Identifier: uon:11452
Identifier: ISBN:9780230221451
Language: eng

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