1) Zhang Jie is a mature and responsible Primary Six student who will be taking his Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) this year. His school made a referral and would like me to see Zhang Jie. I am a social worker in a community-based agency providing school-based social work. Zhang Jie’s teachers observed that for the past three months, Zhang Jie’s enthusiasm and concentration in class has declined. His grades too were affected. Zhang Jie expressed that he was feeling stress. He is stress
0 What is Corporate Social Responsibility and Its Importance on Businesses? Corporate Social Responsibility has been viewed as the sense of responsibility exhibited by a company towards the community and environment within which it operates (Business Dictionary, 2014). The definition of Corporate Social Responsibility can further be broadened to account for volunteering and philanthropy through an expansion from the stakeholders’ perceptive. Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility may go
Articles used in this research agreed on the common ways to treat or handle the ethical dilemma of confidentiality. To begin with, The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics (NASW) states that social workers should respect clients’ privacy and protect the confidentiality of all information obtained. The NASW Code of Ethics (Section 1.07c) declares: “The general expectation that social workers will keep information confidential does not apply when disclosure is necessary to prevent
ETHICAL CLIMATE Every organization can be identified by its unique culture. According to Needle (2004) organizational culture is the values, beliefs and principles of organizational members as a the result of the environmental factors the organization operates in. These factors include the history, the nature of markets they work in and the impact on the management according to the targets they have to achieve, working conditions of the employees and how that is reflected on their behaviors, the
assignment is to identify some of the key professional practice issues within the case in Liffey View. The author will give a critical discussion of the professional practice issues within Liffey View. Reference to professional behaviour, codes of conducts and ethics will also be mentioned. Ethics within social is relating to the morals of doing right or wrong and preventing or removing harm form a service user (McLaren, Leathard, 2009). Social care workers have a duty of care to do no wrong to service
As a social worker, one is to adhere to the following ethical principle attributed to service: “Social workers' primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems.” (NASW, 2017) Organization x focuses on the social concern recidivism. Competence refers to the ability of social workers to possess the knowledge and skills needed in the profession. Furthermore, having the ability to expand and apply that knowledge and those skills to practice. The following ethical principle
7. Ethical concepts (M8) Ethics can be said to simply mean a system of morally just ideologies. Individual’s ethical conception has a significant influence on their style of decision making and the manner they lead their personal lives. Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society and is also described as moral philosophy. Some basic ethical concepts include individual’s rights, autonomy, Justice, Fidelity, Veracity and acting in the best interest of individuals/ clients. CRITICAL
The service learning opportunity I chose was working at the food pantry for a local group called Allies Linked for the Prevention of HIV and AIDS (ALPHA). ALPHA is a local organization that supports individuals with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the Treasure Valley community. ALPHA provides multiple services their specific community, Housing Opportunities for persons with AIDS, providing support for navigating the medical bureaucracy called Linkage
Ethical issues surrounding video games “In the United States alone, an estimated 99 percent of boys and 94 percent of girls play video games with 97 percent playing at least one hour per day. The revenue from the video game industry topped $25 billion dollars in 2010 alone (compared to Hollywood's box office sales of $10.8 billion for the U.S. and Canada) and video games have become an important part of popular culture.” (Vitelli, 2014). In today’s society, there is a lot of discussion on the potential
In this case study, social work ethics and cultural sensitivity will be used to minimise unprofessional judgements. The social workers Code of Ethics is at the core of the profession. These ethics are salient as they help in making sound judgments and decisions when working with clients from different backgrounds. When identifying the ethical obligations of Singapore social workers, one will look at the Singapore Association of Social Workers (SASW, 2004) Code of Professional Ethics. The SASW subscribes