Religion can be a very touchy topic in any profession. Whether you are a doctor, lawyer or a social service worker, boundaries can easily be crossed in these professions. In the social work profession, we follow the Code of Ethics of the National Association of Social Workers. Code 2.01 states, “ Social workers should obtain education about and seek to understand the nature of social diversity and oppression with respect to race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, and mental or physical disability.” Today, there are laws in place that forbid students to pray in school. People are afraid to speak about religion in their
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Social workers cover a variety of practice including addictions, mental issues, but not religion. In this article, the author explains the test group, how the data was collected, and the results of the outcome of how social workers across the board due religion and spirituality.
Method
The authors pulled their test group from “HelpPRO;” (http://www.helppro.com) a date base that helps individuals find therapist specific to whatever service the client is seeking. This site was selected because each LCSW was connected with their email addresses in which made it easy to send out surveys to each social worker. Social workers were selected from across the U.S. using different zip codes for a more diverse group study according to the authors who researched. Individual social workers in their own practice were selected for this study. The social workers who were excluded were individuals without social work degrees, email addresses, group practices, and agencies (Oxhandler, Parrish, Torres & Achenbaum …show more content…
The authors sugguests in conclusion that future studies should examine educatiors’, field instructors’, and students responses. This article was very influential in that I would like to more about trainnings on religious topics social work. This article is cleary talks about bias topics as it relates to ethical dilemmas. The dilemma in this article was between those workers who belive in discusing religion during their sessions and those who did not. For those individuals who felt strongly about using reglion during treatment, they were found to be more educated in this area than others. In order practice effectively, social workers have to be compentent many areas including religion as it relates to person and
Social workers cover a variety of practice including addictions, mental issues, but not religion. In this article, the author explains the test group, how the data was collected, and the results of the outcome of how social workers across the board due religion and spirituality.
Method
The authors pulled their test group from “HelpPRO;” (http://www.helppro.com) a date base that helps individuals find therapist specific to whatever service the client is seeking. This site was selected because each LCSW was connected with their email addresses in which made it easy to send out surveys to each social worker. Social workers were selected from across the U.S. using different zip codes for a more diverse group study according to the authors who researched. Individual social workers in their own practice were selected for this study. The social workers who were excluded were individuals without social work degrees, email addresses, group practices, and agencies (Oxhandler, Parrish, Torres & Achenbaum …show more content…
The authors sugguests in conclusion that future studies should examine educatiors’, field instructors’, and students responses. This article was very influential in that I would like to more about trainnings on religious topics social work. This article is cleary talks about bias topics as it relates to ethical dilemmas. The dilemma in this article was between those workers who belive in discusing religion during their sessions and those who did not. For those individuals who felt strongly about using reglion during treatment, they were found to be more educated in this area than others. In order practice effectively, social workers have to be compentent many areas including religion as it relates to person and