Values and ethics in social work practice / Lester Parrott.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Applying values and ethics to social work practice is taught widely across the qualifying degree programme, on both Masters and BA courses. This book is a clear introduction to this subject and will help students develop their understanding by showing social work students how ethics can have positive impacts on the lives of vulnerable people. There are chapters on how social workers can make good ethical and value-based decisions when working with risk, and how the role of the social worker as professional can impact on service users. Above all the book is a timely and clear introduction to the subject, with an emphasis on advocacy and empowerment and how the beginning social worker can start to apply these concepts.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• About the author (p. ix)
• Introduction (p. xi)
• Chapter 1 The context of social work practice (p. 1)
• Markets and managerialism
• What is neo-liberal capitalism?
• What does it mean to make an informed choice?
• Chapter 2 Anti-oppressive practice (p. 22)
• Anti-oppressive practice: achieving social Justice
• Understanding difference
• Intersectionaltty
• Empowerment
• Partnership
• Democratic and consumerist approaches to empowerment
• Chapter 6 Principles and consequences (p. 44)
• Introduction
• Kant's principled approach - also known as deontology
• Utilitarian consequentialism
• The importance of the principled and consequentialist approaches
• Virtue theory
• Problems with virtue ethics
• A feminist ethic of care
• Problems of an ethic of care
• Chapter 4 Being accountable (p. 68)
• What do service users value?
• Accountability
• The law and accountability
• Accountability and the law
• Ethics and accountability
• Accountability and practical reason
• Chapter 5 Managing risk (p. 86)
• Risk and social work
• Risk management
• Risk: conflicts and dilemmas
• Chapter 6 Advocacy and social work (p. 103)
• A definition of advocacy
• Forms of advocacy
• Bateman's principles of advocacy
• Government policy
• Ethical dilemmas
• The importance of confidentiality
• Ethics, the self and others
• Supervision
• Banks's first-order principles
• Assertiveness and caring for self
• Trade unions and social work
• Consequential
• Duty-based
• Rights-based
• Chapter 7 The ethics of partnership working (p. 126)
• Interprofessional working, partnership and social work
• Joined-up care
• The ethics of partnership
• Partnership and professionals
• Effective partnerships
• Codes of conduct
• Codes of ethics
• Communicative reason
• Partnership projects
• Chapter 8 Ethics in social work organisations (p. 144)
• Ethics and organisations
• Bureaucratic/procedural approach
• Flexible/reflective approach
• Flexible action
• Instrumental relationship
• Moral relationship
• Efficiency
• Calculability
• Predictability
• Control through the substitution of non-human for human technology
• Findings
• Accountability
• Whistle blowing
• Whistle blowing: a definition
• Qualifying disclosures
• Making a qualifying disclosure to the employer or via internal procedures
• Chapter 9 Globalisation: Cultures, values and relativism (p. 167)
• Political
• Economic
• Social and cultural
• Discussion
• Rights are universal (deontological)
• Rights are dependent upon cultural context (teleological)
• Appendix 1 Professional Capabilities Framework (p. 184)
• References (p. 185)
• Index (p. 195)

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