Ethical Issues

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  1. Ethical Issues    

    QUESTION

    Introspectively, describe how your personal culture or beliefs have impacted your social work practice.
    Think of a time that you needed support from your field instructor in understanding and responding to a specific ethical dilemma that arose in your field education placement.

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Answer

Ethical Issues

            In my social work practice, my personal culture has once contravened social work practice code of ethics. The incident in question involved a client whom I had worked with who presented me with a gift. Code of ethics in social work practice discourages social workers from participating in circumstances that create conflict of interest. A social worker should avoid taking advantage of the client or profiting or benefiting from a professional relationship in any way. Scenes social workers should demonstrate their primary commitment in helping the client. To make the matters worse, the client was my age-mate and of the opposite sex; accepting the gift meant that we were building closer personal relationships that could have negatively impacted our professional relationships and interactions in the future. In that case, I was aware and cautious not to create dual relationships with my client; despite the fact that I accepted the gift (National Association of Social Workers (NASW), 2017). However, NASW (2017) requires social workers to demonstrate a sense of cultural awareness and to promote social diversity. Being a collectivist society, Latinos values a sense of belonging, love, safety, respect and self-esteem (Ortiz, 2017). Likewise, I come from the community and the client might have felt the need to appreciate my services since I am one of their own and had felt more comfortable to work with me. On my side, I was aware that it was unethical to accept gifts from the client. On the other hand, I was raised in my culture to belief that is it rude to reject gifts. Therefore, I took the gift, not to benefit from it but to let me complete planned sessions with the client. My rationale was that if I had rejected the gift, it could have prematurely ended our professional relationships.

 

References

National Association of Social Workers (NASW). (2017). Code of ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. https://socialwork.utexas.edu/dl/files/academic-programs/other/nasw-code-of-ethics.pdf

Ortiz, F. A. (2017). Self-actualization in the Latino/Hispanic culture. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 60(3), 418-435. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0022167817741785

 

 

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