LibGuides: SWR-375: Week 7 Resources

Week 7 Required Resources

Textbook

Your course textbook can be accessed via the Redshelf link in the Getting Started module.

Kirst-Ashman, K.K., & Hull, Jr., G.H. (2018). Understanding generalist practice. Cengage Learning.

Read Chapter 11. Social work, as has been discussed, is a value-based profession. Understanding the values and ethical standards that underly social work practice, is essential to all phases of the GIM. This chapter presents ethical dilemmas- situations in which two or more ethical values and/or ethical standards conflict- and provides ideas for their ethical resolution.
Read Chapter 16. Returning to topics covered in the earlier course, Documentation in Social Work, this chapter is an additional source of information on the importance of quality recordkeeping in social work practice.

Articles

Practicing Ethically during COVID-19: Social Work Challenges and Responses
Banks, S., Cai, T., deJonge, E., Shears, J., Shum, M., Sobocan, A.M., Strom, K., Truell, R., Uriz, M. J., & Weinberg, M. (2020). Practicing ethically during COVID-19: Social work challenges and responses, International Social Work, 63(5), 569-583.
The COVID-19 pandemic raised innumerable ethical dilemmas for social workers. This article analyzes some of those dilemmas and offers suggestions for how they can be best resolved.
What Social Workers Should Know about Ethics: Understanding and Resolving Ethical Dilemmas
Congress, E. (2000). What social workers should know about ethics: Understanding and resolving ethical dilemmas, Advances in Social Work, 1(1), 1-26.
Read pages 9-26.
The assigned pages of this seminal article, present the ETHIC framework for ethical decision making that you are asked to apply in this week’s assignment.

Reflections on Teaching Orthodox Jewish Students from an Asian Educator
Wang, D.S. (2021). Reflections on teaching Orthodox Jewish students from an Asian educator. Reflections: Narratives on Professional Helping, 27(1), 64-69.
This article is a personal reflection on learning from interactions with people of different cultures.

Videos

Alexander Street (Producer). (2018). Ethics and values in social work: Client-centered processes for managing ethical concerns [Video] Microtraining Associates.

Social workers encounter what may be termed “ethical concerns” as well as formal “ethical dilemmas.” While this lesson focuses on the ETHIC framework of ethical decision making, there are many different ways that social workers manage ethical concerns and ethical dilemmas.