Routledge Paradoxes in Social Work Practice - Ethical Studies

In the helping professions, standard codes of ethics and decision-making models often fall short. These traditional strategies assume that shared meanings exist and that contradictory universal principles can be easily reconciled. However, they often fail to account for the importance of context in real-world ethical practice. Paradoxes in Social Work Practice: Mitigating Ethical Trespass offers a new critical theoretical approach to these challenges. This book explores how social workers actually construct what is considered ethical during their daily work. It specifically examines the complexities faced by professionals when they are positioned at the intersection of multiple influences. Part of the Contemporary Social Work Studies series, this text provides a necessary perspective for those looking to understand the gaps in current ethical frameworks. It moves beyond simple rule-following to look at the actual construction of ethics within the field of social work.