| CODE | SWP5144 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Social Work Professional Identity and Ethical Practice | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Social Policy and Social Work | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit will expose students to the different facets making up the professional identity of the social worker. Apart from dealing with different issues in this regard, students will be encouraged to understand and begin to adopt the identity of the social worker. Furthermore, this study-unit will be looking at the importance of value based social work practice. It will involve theoretical input, student presentations and students working in groups to discuss situations where ethical issues arise in practice. The ethical principles underlying social work practice will be explored in depth and students will be encouraged to consider and discuss some important ethical dilemmas. Students will have the opportunity to look at ethical decisions taken by other social workers and share their views about them. Study-Unit Aims: - To help students understand the different dimensions of the social work profession; - To help students begin to integrate the social work identity into their self-concept; - To provide students with the opportunity to study the importance of value based social work practice; - To introduce and help students explore the ethical principles underlying social work; - To encourage students to consider and discuss some important ethical dilemmas in social work practice; - To facilitate the exploration of how workers in the social arena, when implementing their role as agents of change, differently apply values to the micro, meso and macro levels, for participants; - To use case studies to help participants better understand the application of ethical values and principles to practice. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Demonstrate an understanding of the values and ethics relevant to the macro, meso and micro levels of social work practice; - Show a clear understanding of what ethical issues and ethical dilemmas in social work practice consist of; - Demonstrate that they understand the different dimensions to the identity of the social worker and the relationship between these dimensions; - Explain how they now understand themselves in relation to the development of their social work identity. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Use and apply ethics and values in their practice; - Differentiate between ethical issues and ethical dilemmas; - Identify ethical principles in practice; - Evaluate him/herself in relation to his.her development of a social work identity; - Identify areas of growth in relation to their development of a social work identity; - Engage in reflective practice such that he/she can integrate values and ethics in his/her practice; - Engage in reflective practice such that students are aware of potential ethical issues and dilemmas. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: - Parrott, L. (2014). Values and Ethics in Social Work Practice (3rd edition). UK: SAge Publications. - Banks, S. (2020). Ethics and Values in Social Work (5th ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing.. - Biestek, F. (1987). The Casework Relationship. Chicago: Loyola University Press. - Byrne, David. (2005) 2nd edition Social Exclusion. UK: Open University Press. Reamer, F.G.(2018). Social Work Ethics and Values (5th ed.). Columbia University Press. Supplementary Readings: - Adams, Robert, Dominelli, Lena and Payne, Malcolm (eds.). (2002). Critical Practice in Social Work. Hampshire: Palgrave.Advances in Social Work – Vol. 6(1), Spring 2005 - Special Issue on The Futures of Social Work. - Chalmers, Iain (2005) ‘If evidence-based policy works in practice, does it matter if it doesn’t work in theory?’ Evidence & Policy 1(2), 227 –242. - Côté, J.E., & Levine, C.G. (2002). Identify formation, agency, and culture. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers. - Dominelli, Lena (2004). Social Work: Theory and Practice for a Changing Profession. Cambridge: Polity Press. - Fawcett, Barbara, Featherstone, Brid, Fook, Jan, and Rossiter, Amy (eds.). (2000). Practice and Research in Social Work: Postmodern Feminist Perspectives. London: Routledge. - Ferguson, Iain, Lavalette, Michael, Whitmore, Elizabeth (eds.) (2005). Globalisation, Global Justice and Social Work. UK: Routledge. - Holstein, J.A., & Gubrium, J.F. (2000). The self we live by: Narrative identity in a postmodern world. Oxford: Oxford University Press. - Mandell, D. (Ed.). (2007). Revisiting the use of self: Questioning professional identities. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press Inc. - McAdams, D.P. (2009). The person: An introduction to the science of personality psychology. (5th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. - McAdams, D.P., Josselson, R., & Lieblich, A. (Eds.). (2006). Identity and story: Creating self in narrative. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. - Pierson, John (2002). Tackling Social Exclusion. London: Routledge. - Reamer, Frederic G. (2001). Tangled Relationships: Managing Boundary Issues in the Human Services. New York: Columbia University Press. - White, Sue; Fook, Jan and Gardner, Fiona (eds) (2006) Critical Reflection in Health and Social Care. UK: Open University Press |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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