| Abstrakt: |
The article focuses on values in social work education. The author felt surrounded and bombarded by the Code of Ethics, to which each member of the National Association of Social Workers, has made a commitment; by the values spelled out in the Working Definition of Social Work Practice; by the value-based concepts of individual rights and integrity taught in the schools and struggled with in the field; by the rapid shift of value orientations in the general society and in the Jewish family; by the fact that ethical and value systems are in flux for many individuals, families, groups, and professions. This flux involves social workers and social work agencies, the people who fund them, the communities which sanction them, the people who use them, and the profession. In a profession as difficult to define as social work, in which the "most nearly primary and ultimate value seems to be man's self-realization and his contribution to the self-realization of others"--where the "social worker-in-action" regards as his primary obligations the welfare of the individual or group he serves and a responsibility for improving social conditions--where this worker is at the same time the employee of the various establishments which sanction, fund, and support him, it must follow that the professional worker will be faced with severe role conflicts and with value problems which are ongoing and inescapable. |
