Everyday ethics
Learning Objectives
After considering this resource, you should be able to explain the importance of ethics in underpinning social work practice and theory, and outline some of the key ethical theories.
We face ethics-related dilemmas in everyday life, but as social workers, ethical decision-making is a central element of good practice.
This chapter, taken from Dunk-West's How to be a social worker looks at the ethical foundations of social work, examining the relationship between the personal and emerging professional self, discussing how to make ethical decisions and what is required in order to justify such decisions, and assessing some of the ethical issues that arise in organisations.