| Course Title | CL | LB | CLINIC | CR | |
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| SWK 220 | SWK Issues in Client Services | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| This course introduces the professional standards, values, and issues in social services. Topics include confidentiality, assessment of personal values, professional responsibilities, competencies, and ethics. Upon completion, students should be able to understand and discuss multiple ethical issues applicable to social work and apply various decision-making models to current issues. This course is a unique concentration requirement of the Social Service concentration in the Human Services Technology program. | |||||
Textbooks:
Congress, E.P. (1999). Social work values and ethics: Identifying and resolving professional dilemmas. Belmont, CA; Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning. ISBN: 0-8304-1492-4.
Kenyon, P. (1999). What would you do? An ethical case workbook for human service professionals. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company. ISBN: 0-534-34938-2.
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Social Work Values |
WWYD? |
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Week One: Thursday, August 19, 2010 through Sunday, August 29, 2010 |
Icebreaker activities and module one |
Introduction and overview (chapter one) |
To the reader (page 1). 2) Ethical decision making in human services (chapter one)
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Week Two: Monday, August 30, 2010 through Sunday, September 5, 2010 |
Module two |
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Exploring your own values (chapter two) |
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Week Three: Tuesday, September 7, 2010 through Sunday, September 12, 2010 |
Module Three |
Read The NASW Code of Ethics (chapter two) |
Read Ethical Standards of Human Services Professionals (chapter three) |
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Week Four: Monday, September 13, 2010 through Sunday, September 19, 2010 |
Module Four |
Values and social work principles (Chapter three) |
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Week Five: Monday, September 20, 2010 through Sunday, September 26, 2010 |
Module Five |
Social Work Dilemmas and the ETHIC Decision-Making Model (Chapter Four) |
Welfare reform impacts a student (chapter four) |
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Week Six: Monday, September 27, 2010 through Sunday, October 3, 2010 |
Module Six |
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Ethical issues for students in the academic environment (chapter five) |
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Week Seven: Monday, October 4, 2010 through Sunday, October 10. 2010 |
Module Seven |
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Week Eight: Monday, October 11, 2010 through Wednesday, October 13, 2010 and Monday, October 18, 2010 |
Module Eight |
Ethical Dilemmas for the Professional Social Worker: Dual Relationships and Impaired Colleagues (chapter ten) |
Personal issues and relationships (chapter six) |
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Week Nine: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 through Sunday, October 24, 2010 |
Module Nine |
Ethical Dilemmas in Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Chapter Eleven) |
The field practicum: Creating and maintaining a learning environment) (chapter seven) |
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Week Ten: Monday, October 25, 2010 through Sunday, October 31, 2010 |
Module Ten |
Ethical Dilemmas relating to HIV and AIDS (chapter twelve) |
Confidentiality (chapter eight) |
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Week Eleven: Monday, November 1, 2010 through Sunday, November 7, 2010 |
Module Eleven |
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Client rights and needs: Agency policy and law, part I and part II (Chapters nine and ten) |
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Week Twelve: Monday, November 8, 2010 through Sunday, November 14, 2010 |
Module Twelve |
Ethical Dilemmas is supervising and managing (Chapter thirteen) |
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Week Thirteen: Monday, November 15, 2010 through Sunday, November 21, 2010 |
Module Thirteen |
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Dual relationships and self-disclosure (chapter eleven) |
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Week Fourteen: Monday, November 22, 2010 through Tuesday, November 23, 2010 and Monday, November 29, 2010 through Sunday, December 5, 2010 |
Module Fourteen |
Ethical Dilemmas in mental health (chapter five) and Ethical Dilemmas in child welfare (chapter six) |
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Week Fifteen: Monday, December 6, 2010 through Sunday, December 12, 2010 |
Module Fifteen |
Ethical dilemmas in group and family work (chapter eight) and ethical dilemmas in Aging (chapter nine) |
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Week Sixteen: Monday, December 19, 2010 through Saturday, December 18, 2010 |
Module Sixteen |
The future of social work ethics (chapter fourteen) |
Professionals, agencies and other entities (chapter fourteen) |