Advanced Competency 1: Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior
Advanced generalist social workers are intentionally mindful of and integrate social work core values, ethical standards, and relevant laws and regulations in practice at all levels. Advanced generalist social workers are attentive to the relationship between human rights principles and the realization of social, racial, economic and environmental justice in practice. Advanced generalist social workers critically select and apply a variety of ethical decision-making models and frameworks that are appropriate to situation and context in practice, research, and policy arenas. Advanced generalist social workers are conscious of the impact of personal values on practice and utilize critical thinking and reflection to distinguish between personal and professional values to limit, when necessary, cases where their personal experiences and affective reactions exert undue influence their professional judgment and behavior.
Advanced generalist social workers engage in personal and professional self-care activities to support competent and ethical social work practice. Advanced general social workers critically evaluate the profession’s history, its mission, roles and responsibilities in the context of human rights and historical and current oppression using an anti-racist perspective. Advanced generalist social workers educate others about the importance of anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusion while respecting and valuing the roles of other professions when engaged in inter-professional teams. Advanced generalist social workers commit to life-long learning and continually update their skills to ensure they are relevant and effective. Advanced generalist social workers also strive to learn and integrate emerging forms of technology for social work practice while adhering to the profession’s guidelines for ethical technology use. Advanced generalist social workers:
integrate social work core values, ethical standards, and relevant laws and regulations into practice at all practice levels;
utilize critical thinking to select and apply ethical decision-making models and frameworks that are appropriate to situation and context;
distinguish between personal and professional values to limit the influence of personal values that may be incongruent with social work values in all practice situations;
carry out the roles and responsibilities professionally in inter-professional teams; and
integrate emerging forms of technology in practice while adhering to the profession’s guidelines for ethical technology use.
Students will place themselves in the role of supervisor to explore the topic of dual relationships. Students will demonstrate their ability to think critically by selecting, integrating and applying culturally sensitive and relevant ethical standards and decision-making models to social work practice. Students will consider recommended practices to guide professional judgement when supervising others. Students will reflect on the congruence of their personal values with professional social work values and the impact of these values on maintaining anti-oppressive systems and inclusive professional behavior in practice and as participants in inter-professional teams. Students will also address ethical use of emerging forms of technology in practice.
Place yourself in the role of supervisor. Using this supervisory lens, discuss, apply, and synthesize what the current scholarly social work literature says about all of following content areas.
Required Assignment Headings (These are all main sections and would be considered first level headings per APA.)
Title (followed by introductory paragraph)
Definition
Concerns in the Supervisory Relationship
Concerns in Practice with Clients
Prevention and Management
Ethical Standards
Values Reflection
Conclusion
References
Preparation and Professional Writing
requires a minimum of six scholarly sources that address the social work profession. At least three of these sources must be different from the articles assigned for reading in the course.
Scholarly writing in the School of Social Work requires the accurate use of the most current APA Edition. Students must use Times New Roman 12-point font. An abstract is not required for this assignment.
Use the first person to write this paper -this is acceptable in APA format for this type of paper since you are describing what you would do as the supervisor.
Professional papers include introductory and concluding paragraphs.
Submission requires a scholarly level of writing that includes cited research to back up assertions.
Definition
Define the term dual relationships using your own words, supported by scholarly sources.
Concerns in the Supervisory Relationship
Identify and discuss the concerns related to dual relationships in the supervisory relationship.
Address concerns related to the ethical use of technology in supervisory practice.
Provide specific examples and support this section with scholarly sources.
Concerns in Practice with Clients
Identify and discuss the concerns related to dual relationships in practice with clients.
Address any concerns related to the ethical use of technology in practice with clients.
Provide specific examples and support this section with scholarly sources.
Prevention and Management
As a supervisor, what can you do to prevent these concerns?
If prevention is not possible or unsuccessful, what can you do manage the situation?
What are the recommended supervisory practices (e.g. ethical decision-making models, frameworks and theories) for maintaining professionalism within the supervisory relationship.
Explain how you will implement these practices using culturally sensitive AND anti-racist, anti-classist, anti-ableist, anti-ageist, anti-sexist, anti-heteronormative, and anti-religiously oppressive approaches.
How can you apply practices supported by the literature to assist your supervisees in maintaining inclusive professionalism with their clients? Be specific.
Support this section with scholarly sources.
Ethical Standards
What relevant standards from the most current NASW Code of Ethics apply to this discussion? (Ex. 1.01 Commitment to Clients).
Describe how you would apply at least three of these standards when making decisions in your supervisory practice.
How will you use these standards to guide your professional judgment and behavior when providing supervision to others? Provide specific examples.
Include applicable standards addressing the areas of dual relationships, social work supervision, and technology.
Make sure to explain in your own words why these are relevant standards and how you would apply them in supervisory practice. (Please do not retype the whole standard in the paper, just mention the number of the standard, the title of the standard and cite it.)
Values Reflection
Reflect on your personal values and the alignment with social work values as described in the most current NASW Code of Ethics (ex. service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, competence).
Explain in detail how your personal and professional values will assist you in maintaining anti-racist and inclusive professionalism in social work practice, as a supervisor, and as a participant on an inter-professional team (in other words, with team members who are not social workers).
Describe how you would limit the influence of personal values that may be incongruent with social work values on your professional judgment and behavior.
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