An undocumented Mexican woman lives with her husband and two school-aged children. Her husband is frequently physically and verbally abusive to her. She cannot drive and has little facility with English. She is completely dependent on her husband for transportation and assistance with English. She loves her husband and wishes he would not abuse her but fears he may abuse the children if she is not at home. Because she feels she has few options, she rarely seeks medical help. A friend insisted that she seek help from the local shelter for battered women, and when she arrived at the shelter, she met with a social worker, who is feeling caught between the shelter’s philosophy of encouraging women to leave abusive homes and her client’s desire to return home. The social worker understands that through occasional stays at the shelter, her client may become more self-determined and assertive and eventually find safe alternatives for herself and her children. The shelter’s board of directors is considering a policy that women must leave abusive situations to be eligible to receive ongoing services.
Remember that “values are the implicit and explicit ideas about what we cherish as ideal and preferable,” (DuBois & Miley, 2014, p 108). “Ethics relates to what people consider correct or right,” (DuBois & Miley, 2014, p 109.) So, how do values and ethics differ? Many consider values to be our ideas while ethics are our actions.
Write a well-developed original post that includes the following:
Paragraph 1: Discuss your personal values and how these values interact with the social work values.
Paragraph 2: Describe what values you have observed being demonstrated at your volunteer agency.
Paragraph 3: Describe how your personal values may or may not be challenged when working with the above case family. If you were working in real life with this family, would there be any potential values issues that you would need to be aware of in your work? Discuss what your plan of action would be to deal with these.
Paragraph 4: Provide meaningful and insightful analysis that includes which ethical standards (use the Code of Ethics) are relevant to the case example.
Paragraph 5: Discuss the different options for how a social worker involved with this case night proceed. What are the risks of each option?
Paragraph 6: Describe what you would do as the social worker working with the case example.
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This activity is aligned with the objectives to demonstrate ethical and professional behavior (competency 1), engage diversity and difference in practice (competency 2), and engage in policy practice (competency 5).