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Ethics and values in social work / Sarah Banks.

By: Banks, Sarah.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Practical social work: Publisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Edition: Fourth edition.Description: xxvi, 278 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780230300170; 0230300170.Subject(s): Social service -- Moral and ethical aspects | Social workers -- Professional ethicsDDC classification: 174.9362
Contents:
Ethical challenges in social work -- Principle-based approaches to social work ethics -- Character and relationship-based approaches to social work ethics -- Principles into practice: professionalism and codes of ethics -- Service users\' rights: clienthood, citizenship, consumerism and activism -- Social workers\' responsibilities: policies, procedures and managerialism -- Ethical problems and dilemmas in practice.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This thoroughly revised edition of a modern social work classic textbook from a leading international author, offers a clear and systematic account of professional ethics in relation to social work practice, framed within a global context, and combines a sound grasp of theoretical issues with a sharp focus on the latest policy and practice.
Ethics and Values in Social Work successfully synthesises the complex ideas and concepts that characterise social work's value base. Written with Banks' trademark accessibility and theoretical rigour, this book will continue to be an invaluable resource for all students, educators and practitioners of social work.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-268) and index.

Ethical challenges in social work -- Principle-based approaches to social work ethics -- Character and relationship-based approaches to social work ethics -- Principles into practice: professionalism and codes of ethics -- Service users\' rights: clienthood, citizenship, consumerism and activism -- Social workers\' responsibilities: policies, procedures and managerialism -- Ethical problems and dilemmas in practice.

CIT Module PLAC 7010 - Core reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of figures, lists and tables (p. xiii)
  • List of practice focus boxes (p. xv)
  • Preface to the fourth edition (p. xvii)
  • Acknowledgements (p. xxiv)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • The current context of social work (p. 1)
  • Terminology: 'social work', 'social workers' and 'service users' (p. 2)
  • Terminology: 'ethics' and 'values' (p. 4)
  • Ethics, religion and politics (p. 9)
  • Rationale and aims of the book (p. 11)
  • The structure of the book (p. 15)
  • 1 Ethical challenges in social work (p. 17)
  • Introduction (p. 17)
  • The ethical, the technical and the legal (p. 18)
  • Ethical issues, problems and dilemmas (p. 19)
  • What are the ethical challenges in social work? (p. 20)
  • Social work as a human services profession (p. 26)
  • Social work and state welfare systems (p. 27)
  • Blame and guilt in social work (p. 30)
  • Conclusions (p. 34)
  • 2 Principle-based approaches to social work ethics (p. 39)
  • Introduction (p. 39)
  • The place of religious ethics (p. 40)
  • Principles (p. 41)
  • Respect and autonomy in the social work relationship: duty-based principles (p. 42)
  • Promoting welfare and justice in society: utilitarian principles (p. 49)
  • Commitments to emancipation and social justice: the challenge of radical and anti-oppressive principles (p. 53)
  • 'Common morality' approaches to ethics (p. 55)
  • Conclusions (p. 65)
  • 3 Character and relationship-based approaches to social work ethics (p. 69)
  • Introduction (p. 69)
  • The importance of character in the professional role: virtue-based approaches (p. 71)
  • The caring relationship between professional and service user: the 'ethics of care' (p. 77)
  • Responding to the call of the other: the ethics of proximity (p. 82)
  • Diversity, narrative and constructionism: postmodern ethics? (p. 84)
  • The fragmentation of value (p. 87)
  • Elements of professional ethics: principles, character, care and relationships (p. 89)
  • Towards a situated ethics of social justice (p. 92)
  • Conclusions (p. 95)
  • 4 Principles into practice: professionalism and codes of ethics (p. 102)
  • Introduction (p. 102)
  • The traditional model of professionalism and trait theory (p. 102)
  • Professional codes of ethics for social work (p. 108)
  • The components of codes of ethics (p. 110)
  • The functions of codes of ethics (p. 114)
  • Some limitations and critiques of codes of ethics (p. 116)
  • Conclusions (p. 121)
  • 5 Service users' rights: clienthood, citizenship, consumerism and activism (p. 126)
  • Introduction (p. 126)
  • Rights as valid claims (p. 127)
  • Human rights (p. 129)
  • Universal versus particular and absolute versus conditional rights (p. 132)
  • Relational rights and responsibilities (p. 134)
  • Democratic professionalism, consumerism or radicalism? (p. 147)
  • Conclusions (p. 155)
  • 6 Social workers' responsibilities: policies, procedures and managerialism (p. 159)
  • Introduction (p. 159)
  • Duties (p. 160)
  • 'Relational duties' or responsibilities (p. 161)
  • Social work as a 'role-job' with specific duties (p. 163)
  • Conflicting responsibilities (p. 164)
  • The professional is personal: vocation and commitment in social work (p. 166)
  • The professional is political: challenging injustices and 'blowing the whistle' (p. 169)
  • The separation of personal, professional and agency values and life (p. 173)
  • Committed/radical, professional, technical-bureaucratic and quasi-business models of practice (p. 178)
  • The growth of managerialism, authoritarianism and marketization: the case of Britain (p. 186)
  • Ethics in bureaucratic and quasi-business settings: defensive, reflective and reflexive practice (p. 189)
  • Conclusions (p. 191)
  • 7 Ethical problems and dilemmas in practice (p. 196)
  • Introduction (p. 196)
  • Ethical judgements (p. 197)
  • Ethical judgements in context (p. 200)
  • Ethical decision-making and 'ethics work' (p. 202)
  • Practitioners' accounts of ethical difficulties (p. 205)
  • Developing the reflective and reflexive practitioner: case examples from trainee social workers (p. 207)
  • When is blame and guilt justified? Case examples from experienced practitioners (p. 218)
  • Courage and commitment in multiprofessional working: a team manager's case (p. 228)
  • Conclusions (p. 236)
  • References (p. 242)
  • Index (p. 269)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sarah Banks is Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action at Durham University, UK. A qualified social worker, she is author of Ethics in Professional Life and Ethics, Accountability and the Social Professions and co-editor of Practising Social Work Ethics Around the World: Cases and Commentaries.