Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Challenges for ethical practice
1. Social work in its environment
2. Context of professional practice
3. What ethics?
Part Two: Meeting the challenge - social work ethics
4. Codes of ethics
5. The purpose of social work
Part Three: Social work and ethics in practice
6. Autonomy, paternalism and self-determination
7. Privacy and confidentiality
8. Social control and toleration
Part Four: Ethics - The source of power in social work
9. Ethical decision-making
10. Ethics: The source of power in social work
References
Index
Wendy Bowles is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Charles Sturt
University and co-author of Research for Social Workers. She has
served on the National Ethics Committee of the Australian
Association of Social Workers.
Michael Collingridge is Professor and Head of the School of
Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University, and has
taught and researched in professional ethics and law for many
years.
Steven Curry is Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied
Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, and has
worked with government and professional organisations on issues of
ethics and professional practice.
Bruce Valentine is Lecturer in Social Work at Charles Sturt
University and has extensive experience in the fields of health and
welfare.
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