Table of Contents
- 1 Why are values important to human service professionals?
- 2 What is the value of social work?
- 3 How can personal values impact on your work?
- 4 Why is it important for a human service professional to follow the guidelines of ethical practice?
- 5 What does professional mean in social work?
- 6 What is professional social work practice?
Why are values important to human service professionals?
Values, in general, are principals or standard of behavior we have learned from our culture, society, and family. Values in the human services career are essentials because those are the criteria that the human services professionals used to assist clients in making more productive choices.
The following broad ethical principles are based on social work’s core values of service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence. These principles set forth ideals to which all social workers should aspire.
Why is professionalism important in the practice of social work?
Professionalism in Social Work Practice If you don’t look professional, it can be difficult for people to trust you. Dressing well and being polite, and speaking confidently, positions you as a professional social worker and maintains respect.
Why is it important to reflect on values?
Firstly, by explicitly having stated your values you can assess whether you are spending time and making decisions in accordance with what you find important. The decisions your values inform will vary in size and complexity. Therefore it is important to actively reflect and challenge our values and habits.
How can personal values impact on your work?
Where your values are aligned with your work or business you will find that they support and energise your work e.g. If you have a value of trust and you feel trusted by everyone you deal with at work and you trust them. It may be that some of your values are aligned, whereas others are not.
Why is it important for a human service professional to follow the guidelines of ethical practice?
Because of the personalized nature of their job, human service professionals are held to a specific code of ethics. This code is designed to protect the rights and dignity of human service workers as well as their clients and society, and to establish standards for their everyday practice.
Why is having values important?
Values reflect our sense of right and wrong. They help us grow and develop. They help us create the future we want. The decisions we make every day are a reflection of our values.
What do you mean by social values?
Social values are defined as standards, which individuals and social groups employ to define personal goals and essentially shape the nature and form of social order in a collective i.e., what is acceptable and not acceptable, what ought or not to be, what is desirable or non-desirable (Kluckhohn, 1951; Tsirogianni & …
Working ‘professionally’ involves having a sound knowledge of, and ability in, key aspects of social work, and then being able to integrate these in everyday practice. Of course, social workers don’t usually do this integration consciously.
Social work practice consists of the professional application of social work values, principles, and techniques to one or more of the following ends: helping people obtain tangible services; counseling and psychotherapy with individuals, families, and groups; helping communities or groups provide or improve social and …