Intro -- Ethical issues in social work -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series editors' foreword -- Notes on contributors -- Chapter 1 Ethical issues in social work: an overview -- Introduction -- Ethics: the means-ends relationship -- The 'classic' writing: decontextualisation -- The 'critical' writing: politicisation -- The contemporary situation -- Rethinking social work ethics -- The contents of this book -- Chapter 2 In search of the holy grail -- Introduction -- Starting anti-racism -- Utilitarianism -- Differing goals -- Chapter 3 Ethical issues in social work research -- Introduction -- Social work and research -- Research methods and social work -- Research interpretation -- Research topic choice -- Client protection -- Coda -- Chapter 4 Confidentiality, accountability and the boundaries of client-worker relationships -- Introduction -- Defining confidentiality and accountability -- Confidentiality and accountability: three dialogues -- Comment -- Conclusion -- Coda for practice -- Chapter 5 The morally active practitioner and the ethics of anti-racist social work -- Introduction -- Ethics and moral responsibility -- Anti-racism and social work -- Codes, ethics, practice -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Feminist ethics in practice -- Introduction -- The feminist critique -- Feminist social work as empowerment -- Towards feminist anti-discriminatory practice -- Chapter 7 Managerialism and the ethics of management -- Introduction -- Support for staff -- The use of power -- Leadership style -- A problem-solving model -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Enforced altruism in community care -- Introduction -- The political and professional context of community care policies and practice -- Community care: ethical dilemmas in practice -- 'Enforced altruism' -- Chapter 9 Can social work empower? -- Introduction -- What is empowerment?.

Social work and child sexual abuse -- Social workers as survivors -- Empowering social work -- Chapter 10 Towards a new view of probation values -- Introduction -- The limits of genericism -- The rise of benevolent corporatism -- Conclusion -- Index.

It has always been recognised that the practice of social work raises ethical questions and dilemmas. Recently, however, traditional ways of addressing ethical issues in social work have come to seem inadequate, as a result of developments both in philosophy and in social work theory and practice. This collection of thought-provoking essays explores the ethics of social work practice on the light of these changes. Ethical Issues in Social Work provides up to date critical analyses of the ethical implications of new legislation in community care and criminal justice, and of trends in social work thought and policy, such as managerialism, user empowerment, feminism and anti-oppressive practice. This study provides important and stimulating reading for social work students and their teachers, and for all practitioners and managers who are concerned about the ethical dimensions of their work.

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