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Ethical dilemmas in power and authority: a social work student confronts her own power

Issues of power and authority are core to social work. Social workers often grapple with difficult professional and systemic power dynamics with both service users and the other professionals they encounter in multi-agency working. In this essay, I reflect on my experiences of the ethical issues arising from an imbalance in power dynamics – both between myself and a service user and between myself and another professional. I explore the use of power and professional authority, value dilemmas resulting from my role as both a social work student and a youth justice worker, and deontological and teleological issues arising from tensions between professionals with differing objectives. (Edited publisher abstract)

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Consider Yourself Asked: Introduction to Political Social Work

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Political social work is a social work practice that explicitly attends to power dynamics in policy-making and to political mechanisms for eliciting social change. Political social work includes expanding political participation, influencing policy agendas, working on campaigns or in electoral offices, and holding elected office. It is a form of practice, as well as related research and theory, through which social workers fulfill their ethical responsibility to engage in social and political action for social justice and human rights.

Social work has a long, rich history of courageous individuals and groups using power and the political system to promote social justice, equality, and self-determination. This book describes these highlights of our profession’s history, as well as many missed opportunities, such as the experience of US social workers who chose not to act and therefore helped facilitate the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. You will meet trailblazing social workers like United States Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to be elected to a national representative body anywhere in the world. You will be introduced to the interrelationships between social work and political activity and the various ways that the guiding documents of the social work profession, including the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics, encourage and guide political social work practice through the core values of the profession.

• Political social work
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• Social justice
• Social work history
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• The Generalist Model in Social Work Intervention is the stage where the client and the social worker mobilize resources to implement the plan, with the social worker monitoring the progress, and the client reporting all challenges and obstacles that they encounter.
• Social Work Practice With Groups: Termination in Groups In case of a group member’s termination the transition is due to the influence made on the lives of other group members, support of social worker and a new prospect of looking at life may […] We will write a custom essay specifically for you by our professional experts 808 writers online Learn More
• Termination as an Important Part of Social Work The nature of the first assessment is determined near the start of the working relationship between the social worker and his or her client, when the goals of the intervention are determined.
• Social Work Practice In some communities especially in the African continent, girls are denied the opportunity to gain education with the belief that women’s role in the society is to give birth to as many children as possible […]
• Analysis of The Outsiders From the Perspectives of Social Work Theories and Applications The rivalry between the two gangs the Greasers and the Socs turns into the struggle in the context of social problems.
• The Significance of Evaluation of Social Work The practice aids everyone, from the client to the social worker who runs the programs. As a social worker, I would adopt the bio-psycho-social-spiritual model to measure the degree of care.
• Antwone Fisher in Social Work Assessment The client is a young black male, an orphan who was mentally and physically abused in childhood and has to face the temper problems resulting from the abuse. His speech is eloquent, and he has […]
• Ethical Dilemmas in Social Workers’ Practice In order to resolve the emerging dilemma, it is necessary to identify the involved stakeholders, model two possible courses of events, evaluate the implications of each and come to a conclusion regarding the preferential option […]
• Organisational Analysis With Reference To Social Work The purpose of organizational analysis is to determine the best way to increase the efficiency of an organization. A social worker must determine which of the three models is best applicable to the assigned social […]
• The ROPES Social Work Model Report In the context of working with people subject to a state of social isolation, this will mean a complete consideration of all the client’s circumstances.
• Social Work Knowledge and Its Sources Social work as a profession has a place in the society because of the nature of challenges that current societies face.
• Social Work Among the Aged The 20 days exposed the happiness of the aged in the company of us, friends and relatives. The peaceful and contented disposition of the aged is another of their features that has touched me.
• Emergence of Social Work in Britain The law established a poor law commission that would oversee the plight of the poor people in the state. Through the law, the small centers that assisted the poor had to be merged in order […]
• Ethical Responsibilities in Social Work It leaves a negative mark on the reputation of the company in which the fraud was committed and, in the long term, on the social sphere as a whole.
• Ethical Standards in Social Work An individual, referred to as the “agent”, has to decide, which course of action has to be taken to achieve maximum benefit for all the parties involved. The major goal of any social worker is […]
• Counseling and Social Work Challenges Also, it may be important to try to work with different people and assess the impact that individual differences have on the work results.
• Ethics of Decision-Making in Social Work The ethics of decision-making is choosing one of the alternative ways of solving a problem based on the foresight of the immediate and long-term consequences of the decisions made and their responsibility.
• Preliminary Session Analysis in Social Work Part of the engagement process, therefore, is to greet the client in a welcoming manner and to introduce the client to the agency’s confidentiality policy by stating that the information shared with the counselor will […]
• Intervention Challenges in Social Work In order to improve the client’s well-being and therapy outcomes, the social worker should be able to recognize problems negatively impacting the social functioning of their clients and offer appropriate interventions.
• The Case of Social Work Supervision: A Self-Reflection In this essay, I will analyze my own social worker’s experience of the interaction with the supervisor, where I had to encounter the situation of seemingly wrong assessment of my work.
• Social Work Methods to Treat the Child Who Is Suffering From Autism This is a clear indicator that alcohol intake by the family is costing the members and it is an issue that needs to be looked into.
• Social Work and Cultural Beliefs: Differences That Matter In addition to that, churches can be considered as providers of assistance on physical and spiritual levels, which is similar to the job social workers do.
• Social Work and Codes of Ethics According to the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers, the principal objective of the social work profession is to augment human well-being and to help meet the primary needs of humans.
• Social Work Services in a School Environment The major responsibility of school social workers is to provide good and quality education, counseling and more often, they should discuss on use of available resource to improve the lives of the members of the […]
• Person-Centered Therapy in Social Work Contributors to this theory considered the client to have a large role in the therapy process, as well as the encouragement of social action and attention on the larger context of the issues that the […]
• Social Work Values Development During Internship I am also expecting to acquire and use numerous theoretical models to support the needs of patients with diverse health and psychological needs.
• Social Worker’s Skills for Indigenous Australians All of the mentioned aspects are associated with the ethical practice, which is intended to bury the tensions that existed between the members of the Indigenous and non-Indigenous population.
• Social Work and Addiction in Family Settings The patient experiences urges to use drugs regardless of the apparent negative consequences of this practice. Therapists and clients consider this stage to be the most difficult.
• Social Worker in a Hospital These key vales, ethics and principles include; Understanding the hospital and the health services given by the hospital Planning for release from hospital Support in adjusting to ill health Giving counsel and emotional support Providing […]
• Social Work as a Profession The danger comes that in case the approach or decisions taken by the volunteers are not the best, then the society is likely to suffer substandard decisions challenging social works ideology When social workers are […]
• Emotional Intelligence in Social Workers As Poulin explains, listening is one of the basic tools for building a link between the patient and the social worker and, therefore, contributing to the development of emotional intelligence in the former.
• Social Work: Discussion and Reflection To be a good social worker, one must ensure that they possess all three since they are the cornerstones of social work.
• Social Worker Profession and Conflict Theory I find social work fascinating because it requires me to be stress-tolerant and motivated to help those in need, and my work data is based on reading a journal of articles written by experts in […]
• Social Work and Discharge Planning Departments Strategic management in a hospital is an essential factor steering the core efficiency of departmental mergers. The initiative renders critical outlook on the significance of individualism and teamwork.
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• Social Work: Historical Roots and Future Perspectives In the second half of the 19th century, the concept of philanthropy to improve the life of workers spread throughout Europe, and the charity organization society was formed.
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• The Bible and Social Work Values Creation in the likeness of God has been subject to different interpretations, one of which states that the application of the divine image to all proclaims fundamental human equality.
• The National Association of Social Workers’ Goals The program’s main goal is to raise the work standards and rights guarantees for social workers. I found that the program offers protection, support, and assistance to current or retired social workers.
• Core Values of Social Work: Code of Ethics The first value is service, which refers to the importance of empowering people and communities in a time of need. The next value is dignity and worth of the person, which refers to the importance […]
• Social Work Practice with the Elderly Social workers can also empower the elderly by bridging the communication gap between older people and the younger generation in the community and institutions.
• Race and Ethnicity in Social Work Differences in customs, beliefs, language of communication, and cultural values among the various immigrant races and ethnicities affected how we delivered our social aid. We had to overcome the ethnic and racial barriers that would […]
• Rehabilitation of Child Soldiers by Social Workers Reintegration initiatives often aim to return youngsters to a secure environment, foster forgiveness among the child’s families and communities via religious and cultural rites and ceremonies, and support the child’s reconnection with their home.
• Social Work During the Great Depression and COVID-19 Pandemic Social workers during the COVID-19 pandemic were faced with a series of novice challenges similar to their counterparts in the Great Depression.
• Gender Equality as Target of Social Work As far as health care is concerned, the primary issue of gender inequality addresses the issue of access to the services and the quality of care provided.
• Ideological Perspectives in Social Work I would like to follow in the footsteps of creating a better society through social work and state reforms in the field.
• Social Worker: The Moral Principles The position of a social worker is associated with many difficulties and places high demands on the skills of these professionals.
• Understanding Group Dynamics: Social Work With Groups However, it is possible to say that the group culture is at a decent level because the conflict did not lead to direct offenses, irrespective of Pam’s “Insect,” and the group members did not interrupt […]
• National Association of Social Workers The Skills Lab Prep Checklist is significant because it highlights key points that are necessary to prepare for the Skills Lab Intensive.
• Implementing Evidence-Based Practice Education in Social Work That is why it is rational to suggest that sufficient data support the effectiveness of this evidence-based program, which advocates for selecting it for the Levy family. It is possible to expect that the proposed […]
• Approach to the Client of a Social Worker: Case Study When the situation worsened, the wife decided to go and live with her grandmother, who later passed on when Martin was six years. He even claimed that Martin was not his biological son and wanted […]
• Social Work Practice From an Ecological Perspective The social worker implemented the life model approach in four stages: first, in the preparatory stage, the social worker attempted to get to know the client and his environment.
• Vatsalya Adult Daycare: Evidence-Based Practice of Social Work The category of migrants’ access to social and health services, which are provided in a complex in day care centers, is assessed based on the analysis of several indicators, starting with what happens to a […]
• Medical Social Work Scope of Practice: Psychiatry In psychiatric social work, the medical social work practice scope includes the activities identified in National Association for Social Workers standards for social work practice in health care settings with peculiarities limited to the stated […]
• Aspects of Social Work and Poverty In terms of work principle, both the poor working and the welfare poor have it to varying degrees, but it does not help them much because the only employment available is low paying and leads […]
• Social Work Career, Professional Behavior and Accountability I have the desire to fight for human rights and social change, and I want to fight for justice in all corners to make society a better place.
• Developing and Using Power in Social Work On the one hand, it is a type of person-to-person power, meaning that my communication skills can help me influence others and contribute to advocacy changes.
• Social Work & Movements of Refugees and Migrants The profession of social workers acts as an advocate for the human rights of refugees and migrants in education and practice.
• 12 Tenets for Social Work Practice Therefore, it is argued that without a good education, social workers are unable to be effective leaders of the society, which they should be based on tenets 2,7,10, and 12. Therefore, it can be concluded […]
• Personal Social Work Practice Skills and Field Experience To sum up, field education experience helped the social work intern learn essential skills and combine academic knowledge with real-life experience.
• Pragmatic Approach and Practice Pyramid in Social Work Also, the flexibility of the Practice Pyramid allows students to consider knowledge as something preliminary, which is going to be changed and adapted to certain cases in real practice.
• Conflicts in Social Work Depicted in Movies The newly crowned king must reunite the rest of the tribes of Wakanda and use the might of Black Panther to gain victory over his enemies and assure the safety of Wakanda and the whole […]
• Engagement in Social Work Field Education Experience The final challenge is to efficiently use empathy, warmth, and genuineness because the social work profession involves the risk of compassion fatigue/burnout, which should be prevented.
• Council on Social Work Education The capacity to integrate and implement social work expertise, principles, and skills to action circumstances in a premeditated, deliberate, and competent way to support individual and group well-being is social work.
• Social Workers’ Roles: Technology Tools Social workers play the roles of community organizers, educators, and facilitators as they deal with the members of society. As a facilitator, a social worker gathers people together for a common course and ensures that […]
• People With Disabilities and Social Work Moreover, there is a tendency towards the rise in the number of such people because of the deterioration of the situation and the growing number of environmental concerns.
• Trauma-Informed Social Work Practice Garthwait suggests that the cases of resistant and unmotivated clients require effective communication and professional skills, allowing the social worker to understand the causes of clients’ reluctance and select appropriate strategies.
• Social Work and Welfare Social workers also had to perform the roles of both overseers, checking whether their clients adhere to the rules to receive support, and an assistant, providing help to the clients.
• The Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice The presence or absence of privilege colors the nature of the relationship between a social worker and a client. For example, a black client may feel more trusting towards a black social worker, while suspecting […]
• Sexual Abuse in Bachelor of Social Work Students The abstract clearly delineates that the research is on the experience of sexual abuse victimization of the BSW students in their childhood.
• The Essence of Profession of Social Work Thus, the development of the profession of a social worker began in the Middle Ages. According to Jones and Lima, in the 16th and 17th centuries helping the poor was the social responsibility of the […]
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• Role of Faith in Social Work The first lesson of this book is that social work should be multifaceted to meet the specific needs of people, and it should consider the opportunities that every person has.
• Social Work Leadership: Identifying Core Attributes Social work does not need the hierarchal ruling but management where everybody is free to discuss their thoughts and are inspired to work for the wellness and prosperity of others.
• The Social Worker’s Responsibilities: Meeting the Challenges The main goal of the social worker in this interaction is to help people solve their problems and consider all possible and necessary mechanisms of social functioning of the person or social group.
• Self-Assessment in Social Work Supervision Furthermore, I will characterize the supervision style I find the most effective and list three questions I would initiate on the job interview to determine the quality of the supervision.
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• The Understanding of Aboriginal Culture by Social Workers The readings demonstrate the history of dominance over aboriginals and the role of Anti-Oppressive Practice in achieving equal rights for all.
• Social Work Practice Overview Thus, community development is the process of increasing the quality of living of a particular community based on their needs. The historical context of CD and CO influences the direction and goals of social work […]
• Reflection on the Job of a School Social Worker Now I clearly understand that providing psychological assistance to children is my role and my vocation. Due to the knowledge gained during the course, I understand that it is essential to recognize inclination to a […]
• School of Nursing, Midwifery & Social Work With the course completed, I believe that the knowledge I managed to accumulate helped me to develop the basis for my career, which I wish to pursue in my homeland.
• Social Work as an Important Element of Society One of the key elements of a social worker is his or her ability to work with families and veterans, regardless of their diverse set of backgrounds.
• Hawks’ “Sergeant York” and Military Social Work The goals of York were to complete his military service as a brave and worthy man, who contributed to the protection and safety of the US.
• Social Work With Disabled Representatives of LGBT Community Members of the LGBT community with disabilities are one of the most invisible and closed groups, both within the community itself and in society at large.
• Social Action as a Method of Social Work Delivering food and personal hygiene products to vulnerable members of the community, including the elderly, was the social action in which I have recently participated. The main issue that the social action pursued was concerned […]
• NASW Code of Ethics: Social Workers and Ethical Dilemmas As part of my action, I accessed her files and changed the date that she was to leave the facility by adding a month to it. However, I had acted professionally because it was in […]
• Statement of Interest for a Social Work Graduate Program I am extremely inspired and subsequently made to believe that this kind of research will influence my career and change the way people view mental health and social work.
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• Moral and Ethical Rights of Social Workers Both the JSI and their male workers are guilty of sexually harassing Robinson and other female workers in the company because JSI management not only failed to comply with the presidential order policy on equal […]
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• Historical Figure in Social Work: Jane Addams She had a great interest in the poor and this was motivated by her mother’s generosity in Cedarville. However, being a woman, she was not sure of her role in enhancing the same.
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• Advanced Clinical Social Work Practice With Individuals The ultimate of the concept is to show the party that the professional is fully aware of the state they are in a compassionate way.
• Lone Parents: Social Work and Exclusion It was easier for these people to legitimize the birth of the child than the single-parents could. There are those who believe that this was intensified by the establishment of policies that made it possible […]
• Social Work Improvement in “The Namesake” Film The aim of this report is to understand how social workers can improve the quality of social services for a targeted client by utilizing the framework of human behavior and the social environment.
• Report on Social Worker Interview: Christa Countee The general salary of a social worker is about 71000 annually and with the current recession, she feels that there is likely to be a cut in the allocation for social workers which would definitely […]
• Ethical Behavior in Therapists and Social Workers Finally, it could also be argued that Bill’s decision not to tell his wife about his status creates a direct threat to her life and health, and thus the disclosure of this information would help […]
• Personal Values and Cardinal Values of the Social Work The proponent of this paper will identify the personal values that are congruent and those that are in conflict with social work’s professional values and what can be done to resolve the conflict in order […]
• Social Work Effective Communication There is the bottom top that refers to the movement of information from a lower authority to a higher one and the horizontal that refers to the movement of information across the same rank.
• Social Work: Issues and Perspectives Social work is dedicated to the development of social justice, the life quality and the potentials of the people and the whole society.
• Early Childhood Studies: Role of Social Workers Over the course of time, the idea of social work was developing and soon transformed into a necessary help to those members of the human society who were in need due to the new conditions […]
• Social Work Model: Object Relations and Ego Development The other defined usage of the object relations theory is used in the sense of intrapersonal structures and external relations with others which is a concept of the ego organization.
• Theory and Practice Relationship in Social Work The major idea of their theories coincides in the point that the relation between the theoretical and practical parts of the science they deal with, i.e.social work, should allow for people’s use of the findings […]
• Social Work: Women & Power and Substance Abuse The issues of MICA substance abuse are rather significant, and their high rates among women can be explained by the fact the women are afraid of power as understood in the widest sense of the […]
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• Bisman’s Social Work Values: The Moral core of Profession
• Social Worker Working With Individuals of Minority Status
• Social Work, Capacity Building in Human Services
• Social Work Organizations
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• What Is the Importance of Methods and Tools of Social Work?
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• How Does Social Work Affect Our Lives on Both a Macro and Micro Level?
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I n a philanthropic stride that underscores the evolving intersection between commerce and social justice, HBI International -  the force behind the globally recognized RAW brand of rolling papers - has cemented its role in addressing one of the most contentious issues of our times: the repercussions of the War on Drugs. With a significant donation to the Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit dedicated to the release and rehabilitation of individuals incarcerated for cannabis offenses, RAW founder is not just rolling blunts but rolling out new hope for many.

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Dutton wants to lead ‘the party of the worker’ with the help of… big business

Are the Liberals the party of the worker? Peter Dutton says yes... even as he tells big business to make the case for wage cuts.

Bernard Keane

Apr 03, 2024

If you want to see some of the purest efforts at political PR, the concentrated form that usually ends up being diluted even by the most biased media, the Dropped Speech is for you. The Dropped Speech is when a politician’s office hands a copy of a speech to be given the following day to a journalist so that it will be reported in that day’s morning media. There’s a trade-off involved — the journalist gets a speech, but will never write it up critically or devote too much analysis to it. Instead, it will simply be reported almost verbatim, delivering the key messages the politician wants to hit.

Both sides do it and both sides get favourable media treatment from it. Today’s effort is from Peter Dutton, whose office yesterday gave Paul Sakkal of Nine a copy of a speech he delivered to a small business conference this morning for Sakkal to write up and publish yesterday evening.

Sakkal’s copy is the Platonic Ideal of Dropped Speech coverage — wholly uncritical and unanalytical as it details how Dutton, “the alternative prime minister”, is pitching “the Coalition as the party of the working classes”, will “frame Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as an inept manager of the nation’s finances” (two surpluses will do that, I guess) and “will tell corporate leaders they had a moral imperative to use their public profiles to speak out about Labor’s economic and energy policies which he said were driving business offshore”.

It’s otherwise unremarkable — in fact, it’s a kind of Baudrillardian simulacra of actual political journalism — except that it’s another step in Peter Dutton’s attempt to portray himself as having a political strategy of pursuing the outer suburbs.

By that I mean Dutton has been saying it’s his strategy, and journalists have been reporting it’s his strategy, and even assessing whether it’s working (the Dunkley by-election defeat for the Liberals was seen as evidence it wasn’t), but there’s little evidence that such a strategy actually exists.

That’s partly understandable because the opposition has released virtually no policy beyond getting young people to drive up house prices for baby boomers further by wasting their super, and coal-fired power until a nuclear power station can start operating in 2050. But Dutton likes to portray his version of the Liberals as all about small business and ordinary workers (“humble salary earners”, in Sakkal’s delightful words), in contrast to Labor, which is all about “inner-city elites, big business, union bosses, industry super funds and woke advocates”.

To repeat a point  Crikey has made umpteen times before, it is big business that continues to fund the Liberals — fossil fuel companies, banks, the big consulting firms, the big gambling companies, the mining lobby, so the Dutton Versus Big Business thing doesn’t even get to the starting line.

But today’s Dropped Speech puts the spotlight on the basic tension at the heart of the Dutton’s alleged strategy, and perhaps the reason why he’s not actually doing much to pursue it. You can’t — however much Nine journalists might try to dress it up — credibly claim to be “a party of the worker” and not be in favour of actual workers. And being in favour of workers means supporting an industrial relations system that delivers pay rises, rather than wage stagnation; one that enables workers to share the benefits of productivity growth and shifts some of the profit share of national income back to workers, reversing the trend of most of the past decade.

Instead, Dutton parrots the traditional big business line on wages: wage rises must be, in the words of another account of the speech, “sustainable wage growth delivered through productivity enhancements” (in the context of the latest Fair Work Commission annual pay case, we know business thinks that means real wage falls ). Moreover, far from being opposed to big business, Dutton wants big business to make the public case for reversing Labor’s industrial relations changes:

I meet with CEOs and chairs in private who vigorously express their frustration about the government’s damaging policies. Yet in public, their comments lack the same vigour, or they choose to remain quiet — many from the fear of a social media backlash. This is not a time to be silent or supine. I believe there is a moral imperative for CEOs to contribute to these important debates.

Somehow Dutton wants to be taken seriously by the media as leading a “party of the worker” and opposed to big business while telling big business CEOs they have a moral imperative to lead the charge to reduce workers’ pay and conditions — an effort he presumably will campaign on in those “outer suburbs” he will target at the next election.

It’s a contradiction so great even political journalists would trip over it — or so you might think.

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