Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World (eBook, ePUB)

Cases and Commentaries
Redaktion: Banks, Sarah; Nøhr, Kirsten

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ethical considerations are central to social work, yet there are often situations where values conflict. This text looks at real life case studies of ethical problems in the areas of: respecting rights, negotiating roles and boundaries, being fair, challenging and developing organisations and working with policy and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136661280
• Artikelnr.: 38269127

Autorenporträt

Sarah Banks is Professor in the School of Applied Sciences, Durham University, UK. She teaches and researches in community, youth and social work and is co-director of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action. She is co-editor of the journal Ethics and Social Welfare, and author of several books on ethics for the social professions. Kirsten Nøhr is a qualified social educator, MA in Higher Education, currently working at Hogeschool van Amsterdam (University of Applied Sciences) in the Netherlands. She was a senior lecturer for social educators in Denmark for many years and co-editor of the journal, Dansk Pædagogisk Tidsskrift (Danish Journal of Education).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Global ethics for social work? A case-based approach. Sarah Banks; 2.
Negotiating roles and boundaries; Introduction, Frank Philippart; Case 2.1:
Doing harm with a good heart: volunteer social work in a post- disaster
situation in China; Case 2.2: 'When the tables turned': a social work
intern's moral dilemma in a Botswana police station; Case 2.3: When is it
right to accept a gift? A Lithuanian social work student's dilemma; Case
2.4: 'Why should I have to reveal anything about my personal life?' a
dilemma for a lesbian student in Britain; 3. Respecting rights.
Introduction: Linda Briskman and María Jesús Úriz Pemán; Case 3.1: Issues
of choice and coercion: working in a psychiatric hospital in the USA; Case
3.2: The reluctant vegan: the case of an older man in a Swedish care home;
Case 3.3: Social work in Vietnam: a Dutch student's perspective; Case 3.4:
Ethical issues in international social work research: a case from India; 4.
Being fair. Introduction: Frederic Reamer; Case 4.1: Dilemmas in working
with an illegal migrant: a case from Japan. Case 4.2.: A young man waiting
for a transplant: dilemmas for a hospital-based social worker; Case 4.3.:
Dilemmas in working with a gypsy family: a story from a Portuguese social
educator; Case 4.4: A gay applicant who wants to adopt a child: a case from
Turkey 5. Challenging and developing organizations. Introduction: Donna
McAuliffe; Case 5.1: Establishing the facts: issues for organizations
working with young women in Iran; Case 5.2: Deciding on the right to health
care insurance: a case from Peru; Case 5.3: The vicious cycle: issues for a
church-based social worker in Australia; Case 5.4: Bending the Law? A case
about reporting child abuse in Denmark; 6. Working with policy and
politics; Introduction: Derek Clifford; Case 6.2: Maintaining
organizational integrity in an area of conflict: a women's NGO in Pakistan;
Case 6.3: The shrinking welfare state: caring for older people in Finland;
Case 6.4: Maintaining professional integrity in an area of conflict:
working with a sexually abused girl in the Occupied Palestinian
Territories; 7. Working with cases and commentaries; Introduction: Kirsten
Nøhr; Case 7.1: Taking money from a dubious source: a dilemma for a social
worker in China; Case 7.2: Maintaining professional secrecy: a French
ethical situation Case 7.3: Institutional pressures and social work ethics:
a case from Jamaica; Case 7.4: Between education and punishment: dilemmas
for a Malaysian youth worker; Case 7.5: Maintaining the rules: a dilemma
about a homeless person in Spain; Case 7.6: Balancing a girl's need with a
mother's decision: a dilemma for a youth worker in Finland; Using cases and
commentaries in teaching and learning: Sarah Banks and Kirsten Nøhr;
Exercises