Applying Ethical Standards to Social Media Use with Vulnerable Populations (2 credit hours)
Program Summary: This course explores the convergence of ethics, technology, and social work practice. It examines important benefits and risks of utilizing current technology in social work practice and explores the ethical concepts of informed consent, confidentiality, disclosure and verification of identity.
This course is recommended for social workers and is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of practice. This course is not recommended for NBCC credit.
Reading #1: Risky Business: Applying Ethical Standards to Social Media Use with Vulnerable Populations
Find the reading at: https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/advancesinsocialwork/article/view/18133/19920
Authors: Hillary Rose Dolinsky and Natalie Helbig
Reading #2: The NASW and ASWB Standards for Technology and Social Work Practice
https://www.aswb.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/TechnologySWPractice.pdf
Publisher: The National Association of Social Workers and The Association of Social Work Boards
Program Objectives: To enhance professional practice, values, skills, and knowledge by identifying key issues related to ethics, technology, and social work practice.
Learning Objectives: Describe the benefits and risks of utilizing technology in social work practice. Describe how technology may affect ethical concepts, such as informed consent, confidentiality, disclosure, and verification of identity. Describe additional concerns when working with vulnerable populations.
Review our pre-reading study guide.
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 2 continuing education credits.
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.