About the Book
Recipient of Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award 2025 by The Council on Social Work EducationSocial work ethics provide practitioners with guidance on how to promote social work values such as respect, social justice, human relationships, service, competence, and integrity. Students entering the profession need to develop a real-world understanding of how to apply these values in practice while also managing
the dilemmas that arise when social workers, clients, and others encounter conflicting values and ethical obligations. Ethics and Values in Social Work offers a comprehensive set of teaching and learning
materials to help students develop the knowledge, self-awareness, and critical thinking skills required to handle values and ethical issues in all levels of practice--individual, family, group, organization, community, and social policy. BSW and MSW students will particularly appreciate how complex ethical obligations and theories have been translated into plain language. Additionally, the comprehensive set of case examples and exercises provides realistic scenarios to develop critical thinking
and problem solving skills across a range of practice situations.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part I. Foundations of Values and Ethics
Chapter 1. Values--Mine, Theirs, and Ours
Chapter 2. Theory, Values, and Ethics--Macro Perspectives
Chapter 3. Theory, Moral Decision-Making, and Ethics--Micro Perspectives
Chapter 4. Research, Values, and Ethics
Chapter 5. Practice, Values, and Ethics--Social Work with Individuals
Chapter 6. Practice, Values, and Ethics--Social Work with Families
Chapter 7. Practice, Values, and Ethics--Social Work with Groups
Chapter 8. Practice, Values, and Ethics--Social Work with Organizations
Chapter 9. Practice, Values, and Ethics--Social Work with Communities
Chapter 10. Policy, Values, and Ethics
Part II. Advanced Values and Ethics
Chapter 11. Supervision, Values, and Ethics
Chapter 12. Administration, Values, and Ethics
Chapter 13. Psychopathology, Mental Health, Values, and Ethics
Chapter 14. Child Welfare, Values, and Ethics
Chapter 15. Criminal Justice, Values, and Ethics
Chapter 16. Elders, Values, and Ethics
Chapter 17. International Social Work, Values, and Ethics
Chapter 18. Private Clinical Social Work Practice, Values, and Ethics
Appendix: Worksheet for Managing Ethical Issues
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author :
Allan Edward Barsky, PhD, JD, MSW, is Professor in the Sandler School of Social Work at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Barsky publishes a regular column entitled "Ethics Alive!" in The New Social Worker, available at http://www.socialworker.com/topics/allan barsky.
Review :
"Are you looking for a comprehensive book on social work ethics? One with lots of interesting and challenging ethical dilemmas? One that provides guidance for BSW as well as MSW students? Or one that accelerates ethical acculturation? You would do well to consider Ethics and Values in Social Work by Alan Edward Barsky." -- The Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work
"An authoritative text, this book will help students develop the knowledge, self-awareness, and critical thinking skills needed to address complex thical obligations and issues. The examination of new and emerging ethical challenges will test the problemsolving skills of seasoned social workers." -- Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics
