Ethical and Legal Considerations in Social Work

Shaniya Robinson came to County Human Resources Administration every month and met with social workers. Mr. Robinson is a 25-year-old African-American woman who is undergoing treatment for schizophrenia with adult behavioral medical service. During the meeting, the client reported that she was under great pressure as it was difficult to adapt to becoming a new mother. Her baby baby, her 5 month old baby, often a cannibalist with a tooth, is often crying. Mr. Robinson is also currently unemployed and economically struggling, but it is difficult to maintain long-term employment due to psychiatric disorders.

"Ethical thinking in multi-ethnic personal social work research", Kelly F. Jackson. Values ​​of social work and ethics journal 7 (1), 2010. "The emergence and popularity of multinational peoples in the United States needs to be critically examined and understood as social work researchers apply to people who equate the complexity of identity with multiple people. "1996" Personal Responsibilities and Work Opportunities and Solutions "Regulatory Survey: Characteristics of children and families in contact with child welfare systems, the routes and services they encounter in the system, and the short-term See long-term impact

Moral consideration is different from legal consideration. The law enforces legal considerations, but for ethical consideration the law may be enforceable. Ethical consideration is related by individual responsibility to society, legal consideration written, approved and enforced by the government. Regarding specific products and services, ethical considerations vary from company to company, but because the opposite law violates the law, legal considerations will not change at all times. Taking tobacco advertisement as an example, it is a legitimate consideration to say that tobacco is harmful to health; without it, they can not sell it. Not using vulgar or obscenity can be considered ethical consideration rather than legal consideration.

Moral decision making is a process. There are many examples of social work, there is no simple answer to complex moral issues. Social workers need to consider the values, principles, and standards of this Code related to all situations that require ethical judgment. Decisions and actions of social workers should be consistent with the spirit and letters of the Code of Conduct. In addition to this norm, there are many other sources of ethical thinking that may be useful. While recognizing that social workers in ethics should use NASW's ethics as the main source of information, social workers should first consider ethical theory and principles, social work theory and research, law, regulation, institutional policy , And other relevant ethics should be considered.