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Chapter 2

Social Work Values

I. Knowledge and Values

a. Values are beliefs, preferences, or assumptions about what is desirable or good for man [humans].

b. Knowledge are observations about the world and man [humans] which have been verified or are capable of verification.

II. Value Dilemmas Of Clients Versus Workers

a. An important guideline is not to become emotionally involved in a clients’ case.

i. Loewenberg and Dolgoff’s prioritized values are as follows:

1. Protection of life

2. Right to Equality

3. Right to autonomy

4. Right to experience least harm

5. Right to a decent quality of life

6. Right to privacy and confidentiality

7. Right to truth an all relevant information

III. Respect For the Dignity and Uniqueness Of the Individual

a. In working with a client, a social worker needs to perceive and respect the uniqueness of the client’s situation.

b. Individualizations the ethical value in social work and other helping professions of viewing, and relating to, the client as a person or group rather than as one whose characteristics are simply typical of a class.

c. If a worker is unable to convey acceptance of the client, a helping relationship will not be established.

i. Social psychologists have firmly established the theoretical principle that people’s images of themselves develop largely out to their interaction and communications with others.

d. The principle of individualization also plays a key role in social work treatment. Various problems, needs, goals, and values of clients involve different patterns of relationships with clients and different methods of helping.

i. Cooley’s looking glass self in which people define who and what they are by how others relate to them.

e. Social workers believe that making all decisions and doing everything for a client is self-defeating, because it leads to increased dependence rather than greater self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

i. Social...