Values and Ethics in Social Work Practice (Transforming Social Work Practice Series) - Softcover

Parrott, Lester

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1446293882 ISBN 13: 9781446293881

Publisher: Learning Matters, 2014

Synopsis

Applying values and ethics to social work practice is taught widely across the qualifying degree programme, on both Masters and BA courses. This book is a clear introduction to this subject and will help students develop their understanding by showing social work students how ethics can have positive impacts on the lives of vulnerable people. There are chapters on how social workers can make good ethical and value-based decisions when working with risk, and how the role of the social worker as professional can impact on service users.

Above all the book is a timely and clear introduction to the subject, with an emphasis on advocacy and empowerment and how the beginning social worker can start to apply these concepts.

About this title

About the Author

Lester Parrott is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Keele University where he teaches and publishes in the area of social policy and social work. He is the author of "Social Work and Social Care", a textbook on the relevance and relationship of social policy to social workers.

From the Back Cover

This timely and clear introduction to values and ethics in social work practice places an emphasis on advocacy and empowerment, and how the beginning social worker can start to apply these concepts. This will, in turn, help social work students develop their understanding by showing them how ethics can have positive impacts on the lives of vulnerable people.

Edition details

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1446293882
• ISBN 13: 9781446293881
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 216