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Social workers should inform clients when a real or potential conflict of interest arises and take reasonable steps to resolve the issue in a manner that makes the clients’ interests primary and protects clients’ interests to the greatest extent possible.
Social workers should take reasonable steps to ensure that their employing organizations’ practices are consistent with the NASW Code of Ethics. (e) Social workers should act to prevent and eliminate discrimination in the employing organization’s work assignments and in its employment policies and practices.
The NASW Code of Ethics offers values, principles and standards to guide decision-making and everyday conduct of social workers. COVID-19 Ethics Resources. Get resources to help you with the questions that social workers need answers to now. Social Justice Ethics Resources.
Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession. NASW Code of Ethics: Ethical Standards 5.01 Integrity of the Profession (a) Social workers should work toward the maintenance and promotion of high standards of practice. (b) Social workers should uphold and advance the values, ethics, knowledge, and mission of the profession.
The NASW Code of Ethics continues to be the most accepted standard for social work ethical practice worldwide. It offers a set of values, principles and standards to guide decision-making and everyday professional conduct of social workers.
The current NASW Code of Ethics reflects major changes in social work’s approach to ethical issues throughout its history and the profession’s increasingly mature grasp of ethical issues. During the earliest years of social work’s history, few formal ethical standards existed.
Ethical Principle: Social workers challenge social injustice. Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people.
