Importance Of Social Work Ethics

SOCIAL WORK PHILOSOPHY IS BASED ON CERTAIN PRINCIPLES, WHICH PROVIDE GUIDELINES TO EVERY SOCIAL WORKER TO PERFORM HIS ROLE EFFECTIVELY IN HUMAN SITUATIONS. EXPLAIN IN DETAIL.

Social work is an applied science, which is dealing with human situations. Whatever the work is, either case work, group work or for community development, in all these situations, workers are supposed to work for human beings by keeping few principles in mind along with ethics. While dealing with human situations, there are some main principles of modern social work that needs to be kept in mind.

Dignity and worth of Individuals:

While practicing social work profession, workers should work with dignity and should recognize the worth of individuals. Either it is casework,

Since, every individual has own entities and he has been given with certain abilities, resources and potentialities etc. So, the worker’s role is to recognize them abilities and treat them accordingly. So far the work for community development is concerned; it is the right of every individual to be respected by the workers. In order to establish good relation between the client within the group or community, worker’s role is to recognize or consider them as human beings because God gifts the workers with certain qualities.

Right of Self Determination:

Another basic principle of modern social work is the ‘right of self determination’, which can only be done by the individuals. It is the responsibility of social workers to observe them, means whether they are capable of doing things by their own or not. In casework, individual knows his/her strength and weaknesses and should determine his/her own ways to achieve desired goals.

In group work and community, the same thing should be kept in mind. This is the basic right of the people i.e. Self-determination. They should utilize themselves, resources and their abilities to achieve any desired goal. The individuals can only do this. By doing this, we might have better standard of living.

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Other than that, they should be trained in such a way that they’ll be able to work out their resources to be independent. The client or individuals themselves can only do this thing.

Self-Awareness:

This principle is related to the workers and social work profession for sure. It says that workers have to control them while working with the human situations. They are not supposed to be open about their likes, dislikes and prejudices and they can’t even exercise it while dealing with human activities.

Since, this principle depends more on the workers so they have to follow the same methodology for all the individuals no matter whether it is casework, group work or community. The main purpose of the worker is to facilitate the process of achieving goals of the individuals. In short, a worker cannot accept a client or a group on his personal basis. That’s the reason these principles are made for modern social work profession and it’s the prime responsibility of the workers along with the individuals to take these principles into an