Values and Ethics Assignment Overview Part of becoming a professional social worker is reflecting on how your personal values and professional ethics will play a role in your practice. This assignment will give you opportunity to define some key terms, consider potential ethical challenges in your present or future practice, and place your discussion in a scholarly context. By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following EPAs and practice behaviors: EPA 2.1.4: Engage diversity and difference in practice. PB 2.1.4.B: Gain sufficient self-awareness to eliminate the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse groups. Related Assignment Criteria: 1. Identify personal and professional values. 2. Describe how personal and professional values play a role in social work practice and ethical decision making. 3. Describe how to maintain competence, integrity, boundaries, and social justice while dealing with personal bias. 4. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments. EPA 2.1.4: Engage diversity and difference in practice. PB 2.1.4.D: View themselves as learners and engage those with whom they work as informants. Related Assignment Criteria: 1. Identify personal and professional values. 2. Describe how personal and professional values play a role in social work practice and ethical decision making. 3. Describe how to maintain competence, integrity, boundaries, and social justice while dealing with personal bias. 4. Apply critical thinking to inform and communicate professional judgments. Assignment Description For this assignment, prepare a 3–4 page paper addressing your personal and professional values and how these values will play a role in social work practice and ethical decision making. Assignment Instructions Include the following in this paper: Discuss the concepts of competency, integrity, boundaries, and social justice. Discuss any ethical challenges you anticipate in the field and areas or concepts on which you can improve. Being insightful and using the critical thought process is imperative for this paper. Link your discussion of the topics to scholarly work. The title page and reference page do not count as part of the 3–4 pages. This assignment does not need to include an abstract. Additional Requirements The assignment you submit is expected to meet the following requirements: Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. Cited resources: Minimum of two scholarly sources. All literature cited should be current, with publication dates within the past five years. Length of paper: Minimum of 3 double-spaced pages. Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.

Every individual has personal values that influence decisions he or she makes every day. The nature of social work can make it difficult for social workers to separate personal values and professional ethics. Like other helping professions, social work has a code of ethics to guide social workers when they make professional decisions and uphold the professional values of the profession. One of the most important responsibilities of social workers is to uphold the professional values of the social work profession when working with clients. The social work code of ethics influences the professional values that social workers use in day-to-day work. Being able to separate personal and professional values in each circumstance is an essential skill for social workers.

For this Application Assignment, view the media piece. Think about conflicts between personal values and professional code of ethics that social workers might encounter when working with the clients. Analyze conflicts between personal values and professional codes of ethics.

The assignment (2- pages):

Explain two conflicts between personal values and professional code of ethics that social workers encounter when working with the client in the video segment.

Explain the steps the social worker took to respond to these conflicts.

Explain the steps you might take if you were the social worker in this situation.

Describe three resources you might utilize in the steps, and explain why each would be useful.

Explain how personal values may become challenges to working with social work clients. Use your own professional experiences (if any), the media piece, and the other Learning Resources to support your response.

Part 1

Revisit your Key Assignment draft, which should include the following:

• In preparation for your Key Assignment, you have discussed corrective action, resolved a management problem with employees showing resistance to change, and developed an organizational chart. Prepare a summary of these tasks.
• Research and develop a mission and values statement for a facility.
• Describe what types of health care this facility will provide.
  • Summarize their purpose and services provided, such as the type of health care, number of staff, type of staff, size, departments, and so forth. 

Update your Key Assignment draft with any peer review feedback from the discussion board and from faculty grading feedback.

Part 2

Add the following to your Key Assignment:

• Develop 5 ethical standards to implement at your chosen facility.
  • Research 2 companies with ethical standards, and develop standards in your own words. 
  • 2 APA references are required.
• How would you present this information to staff during orientation or training? 
  • Describe this training.