Social Work Values & Ethics: SOWK 3853: Find Books

Social work ethics provide practitioners with guidance on how to promote social work values such as respect, social justice, human relationships, service, competence, and integrity.

This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. As such, it enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens.

This textbook provides students with an invaluable introduction to the real world of social work practice and includes knowledge, methods, and skills for advanced practice.

This book identifies and explains in a highly accessible manner the absolute value of social theory for social work.

This is the first book to discuss the skills and insights necessary for practicing social work in Canada and the United States.

Using a case-based approach to connect the classroom and the practice environment, this foundational text incorporates a broad set of themes that include advocacy, social justice, global focus, ethics, theory, and critical thinking. Integrated, up-to-date content related to diversity, social justice, and international issues helps readers develop the basic skills of engagement, assessment, intervention, and reflective practice, as well as the key skills needed for the field experience. Each chapter of the book is mapped to the latest Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) to aid schools of social work in connecting the course content with monitored outcomes.

Role, status, and potential of gerontological social work in aging.

Focus on macro-level skills useful for community organizing.

Practical and useful advice on how to conduct a good assessment.

Text focused on the nine core CSWE competencies.

Methods to help assist groups to gain a sense of empowerment and create change in their own lives and communities.

Valid and reliable strengths-based assessment tools for researchers, educators, and program evaluators.

"I am enthusiastic about this publication...it is an excellent manuscript--well-conceived, well-written, and the contributors all appear to be very well-qualified." --Philip Popple, Western Michigan University This book will be helpful to you in teaching policy, practice, or introductory social work courses at the BSW or MSW level if you want to: - Generate stimulating discussion and debate among your students on how social work's roles are changing now, and may change further in the future. - Expose your students to the thoughts and opinions of many of today's leaders in social work education, in essays specially written for this volume.

Social work ethics provide practitioners with guidance on how to promote social work values such as respect, social justice, human relationships, service, competence, and integrity. Students entering the profession need to develop a real-world understanding of how to apply these values inpractice while also managing the dilemmas that arise when social workers, clients, and others encounter conflicting values and ethical obligations. Ethics and Values in Social Work offers a comprehensive set of teaching and learning materials to help students develop the knowledge, self-awareness,and critical thinking skills required to handle values and ethical issues in all levels of practice - individual, family, group, organization, community, and social policy. BSW and MSW students will particularly appreciate how complex ethical obligations and theories have been translated into plainlanguage. Additionally, the comprehensive set of case examples and exercises provides realistic scenarios to develop critical thinking and problem solving skills across a range of practice situations.

Social media and the digital revolution have fundamentally changed the meaning of "social" and "work." Social work, like all other professions, will undergo dramatic changes as apps and algorithms overtake human operations. The failure of social sciences in general and social work in particular warrants thoughtful innovations that ensure sustainable services. The author believes altruism is professionally unattainable until social work is completely re-founded. The Future of Social Work discusses seven new algorithms of social practice that challenge the existing model of social work education and offers a new perspective for radical transformation of the entire system. The book warns against academic complacence and shows how this radical transformation is necessary in order to prevent inevitable alienation, avarice, and anger in a techno-scientific world.