SW 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Group Psychotherapy
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A professional is one who has skill, knowledge, experience, standards, or expertise and is competent and efficient. Professionalism: the skill, good judgement, and polite behavior that is expected from a person who is trained to do a job well. Social work professionalism also incorporates qualities of honor ,honesty, humility, dedicateion, commitment, and altruism, as well as adherence to the core set of values and a code of ethics. Fundamental to the qualities of authenticity and respect, essential aspect of professionalism. Suggests honesty, truthfulness, sincerity, humility, and trustworthiness. Goes well beyond the absence of misbehavior, involves the active engagement in ethical behavior. Displaying integrity: willingly acknowledge mistakes and errors, fulfill commitments, resist temptations to lie or cheat. Manifesting integrity: report to a colleague who has exploited a client, cheated on an exam, plagiarized a report. Human rights, civil rights, and social and economic justice. History and current structures of social policies and services.
