Reflective Log Social Work

The commitment to act ethically is an essential aspect of social work due to the effect it can have on the quality of the service offered to those who engage with us. Through group discussions in our foundations of social work practice I have become extremely ethically aware and now will always seek to ascertain and respect, as far as possible, each individual’s preferences, wishes and involvement in decision making. From discussions with my fellow classmates I have learnt to strive to respect and uphold the values and principles of the profession by making sure I promote and work towards the code of ethics wherever possible. This in turn enables me act in a reliable, honest and trustworthy manner having worked closely with service users in a professional setting and learned of their good and bad experiences with practitioners through the service user experience we undertook in class. I believe I am now in a good position to apply the social work ethical principles to my professional practice, in a way that seeks to empower my service users and enable me to emulate the best practice. In addition from reading social work journals and staying on top of news regarding the profession more generally I am knowledgeable about the value base of social work as a profession .

Our personal values are the core of who we are and guide us in the decisions that we choose. This reflection paper is based off of the “Forced Choice Values Inventory” test that myself and a partner completed. My partner and I had to independently rank 21 different values in a variety of 5 grouping options. Then each value is ranked in using total points, which allows the 21 individual values to be listed from #1 (the most important) to #21 (the least important). After this was completed, we sat down, compared each other’s values and discussed what values were similar and different.

In this report, I am going to talk about the contribution of care team practitioners in promoting reablement. A social worker works for social services or a private organisation who helps those in the community who need support. The responsibility of a social worker is to help individuals, and families, they work with them to help them cope with the problems they are facing to help them improve their lives and can cope with better. A social worker, needs to have a social worker degree which can be either an undergraduate degree or a masters in social work, then they need to apply to be registered as a social worker.

1.1 – understand the role of the social care professional – analyse the role of a social care professional in social work/community

And lastly, a central part of my ethical framework is how my decision will be judged under the public eye. As confidence and competence being two self-motivating values that

In this essay I will talk about why the collaboration is important in social work practice and how the preparation for the Assessment 1 has contributed to my learning.

Every day we are faced with certain situations that challenge us with how to act in an ethical manner. It can be human nature to feel unsure or conflicted with the correct moral choice. Some can say that one should know how to handle such dilemmas and others may say that there should be a reference of some sort to help guide through such conflicts. Sometimes we know the answers and sometimes we are unsure of how to handle certain situations. Most times we go through life wondering what we should do. As I become further educated on the different theories of ethics, I believe there are answers that are available in guiding one through an ethical dilemma and or judgment. I will discuss Vincent Ruggiero’s three basic criteria, Robert Kegan’s order of consciousness, the three schools of ethics and the correlation between all three.

Throughout my life, I have always loved helping people and enhancing them to be the best person they can be. My purpose for choosing to pursue social work as a degree is through the burning desire I have upheld to support individuals achieve their goals. I consider myself as someone who is keen on acquiring new skills and knowledge of understanding on a daily basis. This is due to my motivation and determination as those two things are essential to sustain as an individual. From previous experience obtained by working in a Care home & Nursery, I have always had a passion to guide individuals who are less able to do so.

I also displayed intellectual autonomy to hold my ground on a security issue, which led to an ethical dilemma. As difficult as it was, I made a decision and the five-step ethical decision making process proves it was the right one.

“ethical dilemmas are commonplace, complex, and require critical thinking skills that are honed through practice, and practice, and more practice. Airth-Kindree, N. M., & Kirk horn, L. C. (2016).

In today's world, individuals can make a single decision that can have a profoundly positive or negative effect on their family, their employer, coworkers, a nation, and even on the entire world. The life we lead reflects the strength of a single trait: our personal character. Personal ethics are different for each person but for the most part, people want to be known as a good person, someone who can be trusted, and he or she are concerned about his or her relationships and personal reputations. As we go through this paper, we will focus on answering what are ethics, what are your ethics, where do your ethics come from, and how do you manifest your ethics?

The writer is currently placed at Summit Oaks Hospital; located in Summit, New Jersey. The population the writer works consists of children and adolescents from the age of 5 to 17. The clinical social worker’s responsibilities consist of facilitating social work group, family meetings, assessments, court meetings, directing treatment plan meetings, write treatment plans, complete PerformCare application, and complete discharge paperwork. The writer’s supervisor is an LCSW. The frequency of supervision with the clinical social worker is constant due to sharing an office with her. This supervision consists of questions and discussion about current patients and advice on how to handle and responds to patients with diagnoses the writer is not accustomed.

I have in the course of my professional calling, integrated the patterns of knowing in making ethical decisions by applying; critical questioning, asking questions such as what is wrong with this picture, what changes are needed; Creative processes by exploring and clarifying; formal expressions by using evidence based practice, and authentication processes by validating, and reflecting.

Individual factors helps to understand the reason for some people perceive specific action to be unethical whiles others do not. However, the decision-making cannot simply be explained in terms of these individual factors, because after all several people seems to have ‘multiple ethical selves’ (Trevino and Nelson 2007:180) – that is, they make different decisions in different situations. Situational factors accepted to be the most important.

When I was an attaché ,I was given the tasks of handling a tender for heavy vehicle tyres. One of the prospective suppliers offered to take me out for dinner to discuss the tender. At first , I thought it was a genuine call but after careful consideration, I realised that this was going to corner me and affect my independence in deciding whom to award the tender as he later called me offering a bribe. I politely turned down the offer as it was going to violate the independence ethical principle.