Social Work 1022A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Best Interests, Deeper Understanding, Behaviour Therapy

• School: Western University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: Social Work 1022A/B
• Professor: Stewart J Smith

Document Summary

Social work practice: consists of a series or process of interventionist actions, not a mechanical practice/process but rather an interplay of action, relection, and more action. Casw: canadian association of social workers was founded in 1926, federation of 10 provincial associations that regulate the profession, including professional conduct. Caswe: canadian association of schools of social work (education) was established in 1967 to replace the national committee of schools of. Social work (1948: advances the standards, efectiveness and relevance of education, approves social work educational programs. Challenges: balance code of ethics and best interests of client" with laws and agent policy & regulations, conlict between values, ethical dilemma is a situation in which professional duties and obligations, rooted in core values, clash. This is when social workers must decide which values, as expressed in various duties and obligations, take precedence: ethical decisions (in steps)