Short description:

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values is a comprehensive exploration and assessment of current and future issues facing social work practice and education.

Long description:

The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values is a comprehensive exploration and assessment of current and future issues facing social work practice and education. It is the first book to codify ethical practices for social workers from across the globe and in myriad workplace settings.

Each section meaningfully captures this complex subject area:

• ethics writ large











• visions of diverse values











• abortion











• relationship and gender issues











• micro and mezzo practice settings











• social work education











• technological issues











• spirituality











• globalism











• economic issues











• special topics

Leaving no stone unturned, this handbook comprehensively addresses the most controversial topics in an evenhanded manner. Among professional social workers, values and ethics traverse political boundaries, cultural identifications, and languages. This handbook will help to make sense of this unity within diversity.

With contributions from the world?s leading scholars, this book will be a valuable resource for all social work students, academics, researchers, and practitioners who seek a coherent and objective analysis in the abstract arena of ethics and values.

'This impressive volume provides an excellent illustration of how social work values and ethics demand clarity regarding both relevant questions and sensible solutions. In advocating for lucidity of thought and inquiry, this book is a valuable resource for those wishing to engage in thinking about and practicing social work in a variety of settings'. - Daniel Pollack, Professor at Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University, New York City

'Stephen Marson and Robert McKinney have compiled the most comprehensive resource on social work values and ethics available. With a cadre of diverse experts and authors, this book contains a wealth of information and guidance for both neophyte and experienced practitioners. It is a remarkable and timely undertaking.' Grafton H. Hull, Jr. EdD., Professor Emeritus, University of Utah College of Social Work

'Marson and McKinney have pulled together a thorough anthology of essays and research articles about ethics in social work and the principles that should guide our professional work. There is nothing more important in professional education than teaching students how to confront ethical issues and to solve ethical problems while maintaining the dignity of all persons. We sometimes give ethics short shrift, but this collection of work from these world-wide authors helps us understand the range of moral and ethical problems we face In practice as well as the means by which we are able to ethically mitigate the human suffering that abounds in our world.' - Kay Seeley Hoffman PhD, University of Kentucky, Professor Emeritus

'I congratulate the editors of this volume for seeking out a range of reasoned views on the contentious subject of abortion. Most social workers will, at one time or another, encounter clients with strongly pro-life convictions. This volume will surely stimulate a rigorous discussion of this important topic, and the social work professi

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; List of contributors; 1 A historical foundation to social work values and ethics Stephen M. Marson and Robert McKinney; SECTION I Ethics Writ Large; 2 International Analysis of Human Rights and Social Work Ethics; Annie J. Keeney, Abdulaziz Albrithen, Shannon Harrison, Linda Briskman and David Androff; 3 Ethical Theories and Social Work Practice; Frederic G. Reamer; 4 Then and Now: The History and Development of Social Work Ethics; Terricka Hardy; 5 An Integrated Principle-Based Approach of International Social Work Ethical Principles and Servant Leadership Principles ; Sandra R. Williamson-Ashe and Charles M. S. Birore; 6 Social Worker Self-Care: An Ethical Responsibility; Dorothy S. Greene and Karen Cummings-Lilly; 7 The Test of a Good Conscience; John Solas; 8 Narrative Ethics in Social Work Practice; Allan Barsky; 9 How a Relational Approach to Practice Can Encourage Social Work to Return to Its Ethical Endeavour; Elizabeth C Reimer and Lester J Thompson; 10 Ethical Action in Challenging Times; Kim Strom-Gottfried; SECTION II Visions of Diverse Values; 11 Social work ethics and values within the context of South African social work education and practice; Sue Cook; 12 Barriers to the Designing a Code of Ethics for Social Workers in the Arab Society; Fakir Al Gharaibeh; 13 Disability Ethics: A Confluence of Human and Distributive Rights; Elizabeth DePoy and Stephen Gilson ; SECTION III; Abortion; 14 Self-Determination and Abortion Access: A Pro-Choice Perspective on the International Statement of Ethical Principles; Heather Witt, Erica Goldblatt Hyatt, Carly Franklin, and Maha Younes; 15 Preventing and Ending Abortion: The Role of Social Workers in Protecting Unborn Children; William C. Rainford, Bruce Thyer; 16 Mercy or Murder: Social Work and Ambivalence over Abortion; Mary S. Sheridan../part contents