Ethical values in social work practice: A qualitative study

FORMAT | ARTICLE

PAGES | 40-58

LANGUAGE | English

ISSN| 1553-6947

HOW TO CITE| Frunză, A., & SANDU, Antonio (2017). Ethical values in social work practice: A qualitative study. Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics, 14(1), 40-58. Disponibil online la adresa: https://jswve.org/download/2017-1/JSWVE-14-1-2017-Full-issue.pdf

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ABSTRACT:

This paper is the result of research carried out during 2012–2013 in the social work field to determine the structural framework of a welfare model centered on ethical values, based on Grounded Theory (GT) qualitative data analysis obtained through individual and group interviews with social workers in the North-Eastern region of Romania. The objective of this research was to identify the ethical values “considered by social care professionals to be constitutive of the social work profession.” We have attempted to generate a theoretical model of social work, centered on the ethical values that underpin the construction of ethical expertise in social services. We have identified a hierarchy of ethical values, which starts from the operational values “demonstrated in the discourse of the respondents and in their professional practices and leads ultimately to a set of corresponding constitutive values.” The analysis model is consistent with recent models of the development of expertise in social work, through implementing the “supervision of ethics”.

KEYWORDS:

constitutive values, operational values, ethical values, social work practice, ethics, Romania.

BAZE DE DATE:

Revista indexata SOCIAL WORK ABSTRACTS, EBSCO Publishing, SOCIAL SERVICE ABSTRACTS, INTUTE, JOURNALSEEK, ACADEMIC SEARCH COMPLETE, CABELL’S DIRECTORIES OF PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES, INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ORGANIZED RESEARCH, SOCIOLOGICAL ABSTRACTS, SOCIAL SCIENCE PREMIUM COLLECTION, SocINDEX, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts, ProQuest.