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Home  FALL 2007, VOL. 4, # 2
FALL 2007, VOL. 4, # 2
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An online journal offers a number of advantages to print journals, including faster review and publication time, greater accessibility, lower cost, and ability to incorporate media other than print, such as hyperlinks, animation, and video. An online audience also promotes faster and easier communication between the editors, board members, authors and the readership through e-mail, an online forum, and listservs. The openness and speed of electronic communication can be used to create greater inclusiveness in decision making by gathering information from constituencies and promoting evidence-based decision making. Therefore, when one editor of the Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics (JSWVE) proposed the use of video-based interviews with book authors instead of written book reviews, the editors sought input from readers about their support for this idea. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 11 September 2007 )
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Editorial Video Below is the editorial for Volume 4, Number 2 of The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics. This experimental video was originally the keynote speech presented at the 8th annual Internship Supervisor Certificate Program Workshop on April 20, 2007 at Slippery Rock University (Cranberry, PA). The film was produced by student social workers without professional technical support. Thus, the presentation is FAR from perfect. Based on our survey, we will continue to do video presentations. As time progresses, the quality of this work will improve! Let me know what you think. Stephen M. Marson, Ph.D., Senior Editor
Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics (Click on the arrow to start the video.) |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 11 September 2007 )
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A continuing challenge for BSW educators is to adapt ethics education to the changing environment of the social work profession and to prepare graduates for ethical challenges they face. Yet, little research has explored the ethical challenges specific to BSW level practice. This article examines ethics complaints submitted to a state licensing board over a nine year period, and comparisons were made between BSW and MSW licensees. The most frequently reported violations for BSW were related to poor practice, boundary issues, and honesty. The authors indicate that we are generally doing a good job of ethics education and suggest ways in which we may improve ethics education for baccalaureate social work. |
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The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics' editorial board wishes to extend our thanks to all of the students who submitted a paper to the JSWVE student paper contest with a focus on social work ethics and values. We also wish to thank the three reviewers who critically examined the papers and made difficult decisions in rank ordering the excellent work that was submitted. The three reviewers must work anonymously and will continue to be the judges in the future. Thus, we cannot mention their names. |
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Continuing Education Article Ed. Note: This paper is the first place winner in JSWVE's 2006-2007 Term Paper Contest.
This paper applies the steps of an ethical decision making model for social work to a management situation involving resource allocation in a nonprofit organization. The ethical dilemma is presented by way of a hypothetical case study, in which a social worker’s responsibility to clients is in conflict with the worker’s responsibility to society. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 24 March 2008 )
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Ed. Note: This paper is the second place winner in JSWVE's 2006-2007 Term Paper Contest.
The application of social work values and ethics, as defined by the NASW Code of Ethics, in work with a 15-year old acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient facing the possibility of Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation (PBSCT) is explored. Highlighted are issues common in pediatric medical social work: both the constant reconsideration of who to define as the primary client, the patient or the parents, and the intricacies of working on a medical interdisciplinary team. Also considered are the legally-defined medical decision-making rights of a minor. Following the outlining of several possible courses of action, one scenario is presented as the best course to follow. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 November 2007 )
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Ed. Note: This paper is the third place winner in JSWVE's 2006-2007 Term Paper Contest.
The Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers provides a framework for practice, including policy formation. This article explores the ethical principle, “Social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person.” The ethical principle is applied to practice at the macro-level, in a unique exploration of policy formulation through the inclusion of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, with persons under corporate guardianship in the state of Wisconsin. |
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