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The 1996 NASW Delegate Assembly (revised by the 2017 NASW Delegate Assembly) approved the NASW Code of Ethics (available in English and Spanish), which is intended to serve as a guide to the everyday professional conduct of social workers. This Code includes four sections. The first Section, "Preamble", summarizes the social work profession's ...
It is intended to ensure that social workers understand and can follow NASW's Code of Ethics in their occupational practices, ascertain social workers' knowledge in service provision, and protect the use of the Social Work title from misuse and unethical practices.
The NASW Code of Ethics emphasizes the importance of the social work professional being sensitive, aware, and culturally competent (1.05) while building partnerships with participants. The notion of cultural competency is being discussed; a new terminology suggests using cultural humility vs. cultural competency. [9]
Ethical code. Ethical codes are adopted by organizations to assist members in understanding the difference between right and wrong and in applying that understanding to their decisions. An ethical code generally implies documents at three levels: codes of business ethics, codes of conduct for employees, and codes of professional practice. Code ...
The National Association of Social Workers in the U.S. provides a code of ethics for school social work professionals. Theoretical framework and services. School social work is structured around a range of practice models. Traditional-clinical model. John Alderson was the first to describe the existed traditional-clinical models.
A Personal practice model (PPM) is a social work tool for understanding and linking theories to each other and to the practical tasks of social work. Mullen [1] describes the PPM as “the art and science of social work”, or more prosaically, “an explicit conceptual scheme that expresses a worker's view of practice”.
Ethically, social work professionals are held to the standards of the NASW Code of Ethics. This code outlines that a social worker has an ethical responsibility to serve the broader society: “Social workers should provide appropriate professional services in public emergencies to the greatest extent possible.”
The first organized social work organization in Nigeria was the Nigerian Association of Social Workers (NASW), which was founded in 1950. This organization was responsible for the training of social workers and the development of a code of ethics for the profession. The association also established a social work journal and organized ...