SWK-620 Advanced Ethics in SWP

The purpose of this course is to facilitate student competency in identifying and effectively confronting increasingly complex ethical questions and issues faced in daily social work practice. In addition to a critical review of the Social Work Code of Ethics, this course will address relevant ethical models and theories, steps to ethical decision making and ethical dilemmas specific to practice with individuals, families and groups. Finally the course will cover a series of ethic's related topics most encountered in contemporary practice. These included bioethics and risk management. Through this course students will become more self-aware of their own values and biases, allowing them to solidify their professional identities. They will develop ethical decision making capacities necessary for sound practice that is consistent with social work values and competencies.