306 Pages
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Routledge
312 Pages
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Routledge
312 Pages
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Routledge
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Professional knowledge doesn't guarantee you'll make the right decisions when it comes to professional ethics Ethics in Social Work introduces students, practitioners, and educators to theoretical and conceptual approaches to professional ethics and to the practice-related aspects of dealing with ethical problems and dilemmas. This unique book equips social workers with the ability to choose... Read more
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- What Is Ethics?
- Rationale for Writing This Book
- The Structure of This Book
- PART I: THEORETICAL AND PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVES
- Chapter 1. Classical Ethics
- The Early Greek Tradition
- Stoic and Epicurean Approaches to Happiness and Ethics
- Ethics in the Works of Maimonides and Spinoza
- Early Greek and Jewish Perspectives on Ethics
- Christian and Buddhist Perspectives on Ethics
- The Ethics of the Dalai Lama
- The Ethics of Gandhi
- The Ethics of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Chapter 2. Theories of Ethics
- The Theological Approach
- The Intuitive or Hedonistic Approach
- The Deontological Approach of Immanuel Kant
- The Teleological Approach
- The Theory of Moral Commitment
- The Golden Rule Approach
- Situational Ethics
- Chapter 3. Virtues
- Virtues in Eastern Philosophy
- Virtues and Character in Social Work
- Cardinal Virtues
- Maimonides’s Approach to Virtues
- Virtues in Psychology and Philosophy
- The Virtues According to Comte-Sponville
- Chapter 4. Values
- Personal Values
- Religious Values in the Western World
- Caring Professionals’ Identification of Values
- Professional Values in Social Work
- Achieving Compromise Between Conflicting Values
- Case Example: A Request for Help Having an Abortion
- Chapter 5. Etiquette for Social Workers
- The Concept of Etiquette
- Hippocrates’ Medical Etiquette As Guide
- Ten Commandments of Medical Etiquette for Social Workers
- Etiquette and Advertisement
- Etiquette and Consultation
- Chapter 6. Good and Bad in Professional Responsibility
- Martin Buber’s Approach to Good and Bad
- Moral and Immoral Concepts of Good
- Case Example: The Student Who Failed to Show Up for Work
- Moral Responsibility
- Case Example: A Worker with a Drinking Problem
- Consultation with Colleagues
- Chapter 7. Social Justice
- Justice and Charity in Jewish Tradition
- Maimonides’s Approach to Charity
- Social Work and Distribution of Resources
- Case Example: Distribution of Money for New Immigrants
- Rawls’s Theory of Social Justice
- PART II: APPLIED ASPECTS OF THERAPEUTIC WORK
- Chapter 8. Social Welfare and Distributive Justice
- Distributive Justice
- Case Example: Allocation of Limited Resources
- Case Example: The Man Who Chose to Travel the World
- Case Example: The Expensive Patient
- Case Example: Four Different Kidney Patient Situations
- Blasszauer’s Decision-Making Criteria
- Chapter 9. Trust in Client-Social Worker Relationships
- Fiduciary Relationships in Social Work
- Case example: The Resident Who Wanted to Keep His Affair Secret
- Case example: The Parents Who Refuse to Accept the Doctors’ Advice
- Fiduciary Relationships in Other Caring Professions
- Case Example: The Woman Who Refused an Operation
- Chapter 10. Ethical Dilemmas
- Ethical Dilemmas in Social Work
- Case Example: The Suicidal Client
- Case Example: A Request to Keep a Medical Diagnosis Secret
- Case Example: The Girl Who Asked for Advice Regarding Abortion
- Case Example: Whether to Give Financial Support Beyond the Time Allocated
- Chapter 11. Resolution of Ethical Dilemmas
- Termination of Treatment: Principles of Intervention
- Ethical Dilemmas and Decision Making
- Basic Ethical Principles
- Phases in the Analysis of Ethical Dilemmas and Decision Making
- Ethical Decision Making in S
Biography
David Guttmann
