Social Work Values and Ethics: Identifying and Resolving Professional Dilemmas

by Elaine P. Congress

This text teaches both students and practitioners to apply the 1996 National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics to real practice experiences with clients in individual, family, group, and community settings. It covers a wide variety of practice settings as well as professional issues such as dual relationships, impaired colleagues, and interdisciplinary collaboration. This text uses a clear, five-step decision-making model, the ETHIC model, for identifying and resolving ethical issues and dilemmas.

197 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Elaine Piller Congress, DSW

Reviews

[Katie]

I feel like this was well written. It doesn't just present the Code of Ethics but discusses it in context of specific fields within social work. It then also presents a framework for making ethical decisions by asking five questions.