SWRK 771 - Social Work Values and Ethics

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University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

FREE ELECTIVE. This course is concerned with the influence of idealogy, values,and ethics on the development of social welfare policies and social work practice. Particular emphasis is given to the impact of such concepts as freedom,equality, and justice on the creation and implementation of social service programs and on the underlying value structure of alternative modes of social intervention. The course also provides students with a framework to understand and apply ethical concepts such as confidentiality, self-determination, truth-telling, paternalism, conflict of duties, and "whistleblowing," in the daily realities of professional practice. These concepts and their relationship to terminal values are taught through the analysis of cases from the changing environment of policy and practice in the United States.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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