Examples Of Ethical Dilemmas In Social Work

Social workers have to regularly deal with the dilemmas and ethics of dealing with people and working with an alienated youth is one such situation. The ethics of the situation can include the youth as the reasoning for a youth to require social work intervention before dealing with the friends behaviour is important as why haven’t they spoken of the behaviour or ‘coming out’ or at least attempted too. Has the client assumed discrimination and is now using the social worker to justify extreme choice of requiring intervention before investigating. This needs to be explored and as previously discussed narrative approach, reflection and postmodernism will help balance and explore this ethical dilemma. As well as respecting the autonym of the …show more content…
My views on sexuality are quite tolerant, and that everyone has a right to safe, consensual and healthy sexual expression whether heterosexual or other sexualities. This can also be interpreted as me having indifference or not caring about the struggles of sexuality different individuals to myself. In order to prevent such interpretations listening and reflecting on my client says and believes will be important to prevent my sexual views and sexuality being involved and affecting my client. I also feel strongly about people’s rights to freedom and liberty, and thus loath discrimination, and as such I may feel that this individual has jumped the gun in seeking social work intervention without first touching base with their friend about their behaviour, as it could by not influenced by discrimination. As I feel without specific events or conversations taking place that can include slurs, insults, and even violence are more easily clarified as discrimination, then a change of behaviour in one friend. This will require to me to listen to about how and what they view discrimination as and encourage to client to think in different ways about their friend’s behaviour, as well as encouraging them to approach the friend in their change of behaviour and never actually …show more content…
Tools such as anti-oppressive practice and post modernism are useful in working with clients as it is a common experience to feel or be different as we all are different and it is our perceptions and behaviours which cause the differences to be negative or positive. Plans such as narrative approach and reflection with the client, give the social structure in their approach with the client but also the capacity to change as they need to prevent offence and time wasting. The ethical dilemmas of sexuality and social work are dynamic and compacted and require a sophisticated a balancing act and knowledge. The behaviours, attitudes and beliefs of the social can also heavily impact the client and as such the social worker must use reflection on themselves in order to have tools in place to prevent their introduction into the sessions with the client, which can affect the client. Social work and sexuality are individual aspects and yet connected aspects of society and require professional and difference competent social