The materials in this second edition present a broad range of approaches to teaching professional values and ethics to social work students. Congress, Black, and Strom-Gottfried designed the collection as a tool for use at both graduate and undergraduate levels. In section one faculty will find outlines from general ethics courses as well as specific ethics outlines on social work ethics and the law and social work ethics and community practice. Section two includes an introduction to ethics for beginning social work students, ethics in research, conflict resolution, boundaries, and culturally relevant modules. The didactic teaching of social work values and ethics can be enhanced by the inclusion of exercises and assignments located in section three, which will help students identify and analyze ethical dilemmas in the context of their personal experiences. In section four the editors have included an annotated bibliography of multimedia resources on ethics and ethical practice that will be helpful in designing and teaching social work ethics courses. Major changes since the first edition are expanded international ethics reference and more electronic ethics resources.
Council on Social Work Education
We are a nonprofit national association representing individual members and graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in this country.
CSWE Press is a niche publisher that addresses the needs of social work educators. Some of our areas of publishing specialty are
-The philosophy, theory, and practice of teaching
-The process and evaluation of learning
-The organization and structure of social work education
-Diversity in all forms in social work practice and education
-Social work in multiple contexts
Elaine P. Congress is professor and associate dean at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service. The focus of her many publications has been on international comparative ethics, confidentiality, ethical issues in social work education, cultural competency, and social work with immigrants and refugees. She is the North American representative to the International Federation of Social Workers International Ethics Committee. Dr. Congress is on the editorial board of the Journal of Social Values and Ethics. Phyllis N. Black is professor of social work at Marywood University and director of the Lehigh Valley Campus Program. She has conducted research on ethical issues in social work practice and serves on the ethics committees of several medical institutions. She is chair of the national Commission on Curriculum and Educational Innovation for the Council on Social Work Education, which sets educational policy for schools of social work in the United States. Kim Strom-Gottfried is Smith B. Theimann Jr. Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Professional Practice in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published numerous books on ethics in various areas of social work education and practice and has initiated research to test the applicability of decision-making models to the practice environment.
