The Ethical Foundations of Social Work

The Ethical Foundations of Social Work offers an engaging, theoretically rigorous and practice-orientated grounding in social work ethics.

The Ethical Foundations of Social Work offers an engaging, theoretically rigorous and practice-orientated grounding in social work ethics.

Fully revised and expanded, with the addition of four new chapters on Decolonial Ethics, Social Work and Radicalisation, the Ethics of Recognition and Epistemic Injustice, this book examines when, how and why principles and debates have historically emerged, and explicitly map them onto everyday ethical challenges and situations in social work practice. By presenting and explaining key theories and applying them to real-world practice examples from different regions, The Ethical Foundations of Social Work guides social work students and practitioners in developing ethical reasoning to support ethical decision-making in diverse contexts.

Promoting an ethically 'conscious' approach in which principles are integrated flexibly and confidently as tools for critical problem solving, this book serves as a core or supplemental textbook for Social Work Ethics courses at undergraduate or postgraduate levels.

Autorentext

Annie Pullen Sansfaçon is Full Professor of Social Work at the University of Montreal, in Canada, and hold the Canada Research Chair ReParE on Partnership Research and the Empowerment of Vulnerablized Youth.

Stephen Cowden, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Gloucestershire. His research interests are diverse but include Social Work Ethics, Critical Pedagogy and Radicalisation and Safeguarding.

Inhalt

0.Introduction - The Importance of Situating the Ethical Social Work Project in a Global, Changing World. Part One - What Is Social Work? 1.The Historical Emergence of Social Work. 2.Contemporary Social Work: Care or Control? Part Two - Ethics in Social Dynamics. 3.Power in Social Work. 4.Epistemic Injustice and Social Work. 5.Radicalisation, Social Work and Society. 6.Empowerment. Part Three - Ethical Perspectives for Social Work. 7.Decolonial Ethics. 8.Kantian ethics, Respect for the Person and Self-Determination. 9.The Ethics of Mill, Bentham and Rawls. 10.Virtue Ethics and Ethics of Care. 11.The Ethics of "Recognition".