With the eight edition of ETHICAL DECISIONS FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE, you'll learn to recognize ethical issues and dilemmas, reason carefully about ethical issues, clarify your ethical aspirations at the level demanded by the profession, and achieve a more ethical stance in your practice. This classic social work text places ethical decision-making within the context of professional ethics and provides useful guidelines, including two ethical screens to help social work practitioners identify priorities among competing ethical obligations. Developed specifically for social workers, the text features numerous case-like exemplars based on real-world practice and drawn from a variety of social work settings.

Table of Contents

Preface. Part 1: INTRODUCTION TO ETHICAL DECISION MAKING. 1. Ethical Choices in the Helping Professions. 2. Values and Professional Ethics. 3. Guidelines for Ethical Decision Making: Concepts, Approaches, and Values. 4. Guidelines for Ethical Decision Making. Part 2: ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE. 5. Confidentiality and Informed Consent. 6. Client Rights and Professional Expertise. 7. Value Neutrality and Imposing Values. 8. Equality, Inequality, Limited Resources, and Advocacy. 9. The Professional Relationship: Limits, Dilemmas, and Problems. 10. Organizational and Work Relationships. 11. Social Work with Selected Client Groups. 12. Changing World/Changing Dilemmas. 13. Whose Responsibility Are Professional Ethics? Appendix A: Additional Exemplars. Appendix B: Glossary. Bibliography. Index.