SOWK 2405 Ethics for the Social Work Profession
This course explores professional organizations and codes of ethics in the social work field and other helping professions. Issues concerning due process, least restrictive environment, right to treatment, multiple relationships, client advocacy, value clarification, and professional responsibility will be examined. The student will analyze case studies with the professional standards. (3 lect.)
Major Topics
- Ethical principles
- Ethical standards of the social work profession
- Ethical standards of various professional organizations
- Ethical decision-making models
- Personal values
- Ethics codes from a diversity perspective
- Confidentiality
- Informed consent
- Clients rights
- Multiple relationships
- Professional competence and training
- Agency policies
- Legal issues
Outcomes
In order to successfully complete this course, the student will:
1. Describe how value clarification is a lifelong process.
2. Compare standards of professional organizations.
3. Identify ethics codes from a diversity perspective.
4. Evaluate ethical dilemmas in both professional and nonprofessional situations.
5. Utilize a variety of ethical decision-making models.
6. Apply a specific code of ethics to selected case situations.
7. Examine legal issues, policies, confidentiality, informed consent, and client’s rights.