Information and Communication Technologies in Social Work (1 credit hour)
Program Summary: This course examines the importance of technology for social work practice and the implication for social work ethics. Using the NASW Code of Ethics, the course examines the impact of information and communication technologies on specific principles of social work ethics.
This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of practice. This course does not meet the ethics requirement for National Certified Counselors.
Course Reading: Information and Communication Technologies in Social Work
Author: Brian E. Perron, Harry O. Taylor, Joseph E. Glass, Jon Margerum-Leys
Publisher: Advances in Social Work
Find the reading at: https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/241/401
Program Objectives: Describe how ICTs can be used to improve social work practice. Describe the impact of ICTs on specific principles of social work ethics. Describe potential challenges of ICTs to social work practice.
Learning Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by exploring how ICTs are essential to ethical social work practice.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
Further reading:
NASW Code of Ethics: http://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/code.asp
NASW and ASWB Standards for technology and Social Work Practice: http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/standards/NASWTechnologyStandards.pdf
Free State Social Work, LLC, provider #1235, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Free State Social Work, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 9/6/2021 - 9/6/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 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.