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This Code includes four sections. The first Section, "Preamble", summarizes the social work profession's mission and core values. The second section, "Purpose of the NASW Code of Ethics", provides an overview of the Code's main functions and a brief guide for dealing with ethical issues or dilemmas in social work practice.
Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. Principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversities are central to social work.
Critical social work is the application to social work of a critical theory perspective. Critical social work seeks to address social injustices, as opposed to focusing on individualized issues. Critical theories explain social problems as arising from various forms of oppression and injustice in globalized capitalist societies and forms of ...
Prefigurative politics are the modes of organization and social relationships that strive to reflect the future society being sought by the group. [1] According to Carl Boggs, who coined the term, the desire is to embody "within the ongoing political practice of a movement [...] those forms of social relations, decision-making, culture, and human experience that are the ultimate goal". [2]
The practice of clinical social work requires the application of specialized clinical knowledge and advanced clinical skills in the areas of assessment, diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, conditions and addictions. Treatment methods include the provision of individual, marital, couple, family and group ...
The Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) used to act as the professional association and the regulatory agency. Since 2020, ACSW is a single mandate organization that regulates social worker in the public interest. The Alberta College of Social Workers, first created in the 1961 as the Alberta Association of Social Workers, made continuous ...
The American Bar Association Model Code of Professional Responsibility, created by the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1969, was a set of professional standards designed to establish the minimum baseline of legal ethics and professional responsibility generally required of lawyers in the United States . It was replaced with the Model Rules of ...
Bertha Capen Reynolds born in Brockton, Massachusetts, on December 11, 1887 to Mary (Capen) Reynolds and Franklin Stewart Reynolds. [2] Her father died while she was a young child, and she moved with her mother to Boston to work as a teacher. Reynolds' aunt paid for her to attend Smith College, where she graduated in 1908 with a Bachelor of ...