| Autor: |
Wulfekühler, Heidrun, Rhodes, Margaret L. |
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Ethics & Social Welfare; Sep2021, Vol. 15 Issue 3, p263-278, 16p |
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Bureaucratic settings pose particularly daunting problems for social workers trying to flourish as professionals, among others because the practice circumstances can be adverse. Flourishing in an Aristotelian sense requires that social workers act with skill to fulfil the goals of responsiveness (honesty and openness), fairness (justice) and compassion towards clients, as well as efficiency for the bureaucracy. Responding to the ethnographic work of Bernardo Zacka, we will outline the particular kinds of tensions these goals pose for social workers in bureaucratic settings and then will provide some proposals for mitigating these tensions. We disagree with Zacka that virtues are largely irrelevant to social workers trying to respond ethically to bureaucratic demands, but rather will propose that his 'mechanisms of the self' and others that we have developed in our work with students and practitioners, can strengthen social work virtues, enable social workers to flourish and foster a critical examination of one's organisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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