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VALUES AND ETHICS

Overview

Part of becoming a professional social worker is reflecting on how your personal values and professional ethics will play a role in your practice. This assignment will give you an opportunity to define some key terms, consider potential ethical challenges in your present or future practice, and place your discussion in a scholarly context.

By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs and generalist practices:

• Competency 1: Demonstrate ethical and professional behavior.
  • C1.GP.B Use reflection and self-regulation to manage personal values and maintain professionalism in practice situations.
• Competency 2: Engage diversity and difference in practice.
  • C2.GP.A Apply and communicate understanding of the importance of diversity and difference in shaping life experiences in practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

Description

For this assignment, prepare a three-page paper (page number refers to the body of the paper and does not include the title page, abstract, or reference pages in APA format) addressing the difference between your personal and professional values and examining how personal values can create bias. In addition, address how values will play a role in social work practice and ethical decision making based on the lens and content of the assigned reading.

Instructions

Include the following in this paper:

• Address the difference between your personal and professional values and examine how personal values can create bias.
• Discuss the concepts of competency, integrity, boundaries, and social justice.
• Address how values will play a role in social work practice and ethical decision making.
• Discuss any ethical challenges you anticipate in the field and areas or concepts on which you can improve.
  • Being insightful and using the critical thought process is imperative for this paper.
• Describe how you could advocate for clients to secure resources to support their efforts to change behaviors and how this relates to ethics and values.

This paper must be based on the assigned readings and a minimum of two other scholarly literature sources. This is not a personal reflection paper. The goal is to shift away from personal bias and values and into the literature and lens of professional ethics.

My personal values: honesty, loyalty, sincerity, respect, responsibility

Professional ethics: integrity, confidentiality, time management, fairness, transparent

I have included all of the requirements needed for this assignment. You should not need anything else for completion.