Managing Ethics Challenges in Social Work Organizations: A Comprehensive Strategy (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course explores key stages of the evolution of social work ethics from the morality period to the digital period. Practical tools for managing ethics challenges in social work organizations are provided; strategies include informal ethics conversations, formal ethics consultations, agency-based ethics committees, and ethics rounds. Case examples are given.
This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning and intermediate levels of practice. This course is not recommended for NBCC ethics credit.
Course Reading: Managing Ethics Challenges in Social Work Organizations: A Comprehensive Strategy
Author: Frederic G. Reamer
Publisher: Advances in Social Work
Course Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills and knowledge by exploring strategies for managing ethical challenges in social work practice
Learning Objectives: Describe the key stages of the evolution of social work ethics. Compare informal ethics conversations and formal ethics consultations. Compare agency-based ethics committees and ethics rounds.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 ethics continuing education credit.
Free State Social Work has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP NO. 6605. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Free State Social Work is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Managing Ethics Challenges in Social Work Organizations: A Comprehensive Strategy, Course #4584, is approved by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program to be offered by Free State Social Work, LLC as an individual course. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE course approval period: 12/08/2022 - 12/08/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 Ethics continuing education credit.
G.M. Rydberg-Cox, MSW, LSCSW is the Continuing Education Director at Free State Social Work and responsible for the development of this course. She received her Masters of Social Work in 1996 from the Jane Addams School of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago and she has over 20 years of experience. She has lived and worked as a social worker in Chicago, Boston, and Kansas City. She has practiced for many years in the area of hospital/medical social work. The reading materials for this course were developed by another organization.