NASW Code of Ethics Midterm Exam
Questions And Answers Graded A+.
The 6 Core Values of Social Work - Answer Service
Social Justice
Dignity and worth of the person
Importance of human relationships
Integrity
Competence
NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #1 - Answer The Code identifies core values on which social work's mission is based.
NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #2 - Answer The Code summarizes broad ethical principles that reflect the profession's core
values and establishes a set of specific ethical standards that should be used to guide social work
practice.
NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #3 - Answer The Code is designed to help social workers identify relevant considerations when
professional obligations conflict or ethical uncertainties arise.
NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #4 - Answer The Code provides ethical standards to which the general public can hold the
social work profession accountable.
NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #5 - Answer The Code socializes practitioners new to the field to social work's mission, values,
ethical principles, and ethical standards.
,NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #6 - Answer The Code articulates standards that the social work profession itself can use to
assess whether social workers have engaged in unethical conduct. NASW has formal procedures to
adjudicate ethics complaints filed against its members.* In subscribing to this Code, social workers are
required to cooperate in its implementation, participate in NASW adjudication proceedings, and abide by
any NASW disciplinary rulings or sanctions based on it.
What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Service? - Answer Ethical Principle: Social workers' primary
goal is to help people in need and to address social problems.
Social workers elevate service to others above self-interest. Social workers draw on their knowledge,
values, and skills to help people in need and to address social problems. Social workers are encouraged
to volunteer some portion of their professional skills with no expectation of significant financial return
(pro bono service).
What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Social Justice? - Answer Ethical Principle: Social workers
challenge social injustice.
Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed
individuals and groups of people. Social workers' social change efforts are focused primarily on issues of
poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social injustice. These activities seek to
promote sensitivity to and knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers
strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and
meaningful participation in decision making for all people.
What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Dignity and Worth of the Person? - Answer Ethical
Principle: Social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person.
Social workers treat each person in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and
cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers promote clients' socially responsible self-determination.
Social workers seek to enhance clients' capacity and opportunity to change and to address their own
needs. Social workers are cognizant of their dual responsibility to clients and to the broader society. They
seek to resolve conflicts between clients' interests and the broader society's interests in a socially
responsible manner consistent with the values, ethical principles, and ethical standards of the
profession.
,What is the Ethical Principle for Importance of Human Relationships? - Answer Ethical Principle: Social
workers recognize the central importance of human relationships.
Social workers understand that relationships between and among people are an important vehicle for
change. Social workers engage people as partners in the helping process. Social workers seek to
strengthen relationships among people in a purposeful effort to promote, restore, maintain, and
enhance the well-being of individuals, families, social groups, organizations, and communities.
What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Integrity? - Answer Ethical Principle: Social workers behave
in a trustworthy manner.
Social workers are continually aware of the profession's mission, values, ethical principles, and ethical
standards and practice in a manner consistent with them. Social workers act honestly and responsibly
and promote ethical practices on the part of the organizations with which they are affiliated.
What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Competence? - Answer Ethical Principle: Social workers
practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise.
Social workers continually strive to increase their professional knowledge and skills and to apply them in
practice. Social workers should aspire to contribute to the knowledge base of the profession.
Ethical standards relevant to the professional activities of all social workers fall into the 6 categories.
Name them: - Answer (1) social workers' ethical responsibilities to clients
(2) social workers' ethical responsibilities to colleagues
(3) social workers' ethical responsibilities in practice settings
(4) social workers' ethical responsibilities as professionals
(5) social workers' ethical responsibilities to the social work profession
(6) social workers' ethical responsibilities to the broader society.
Name the 16 listed ways social workers are ethically responsible to their clients - Answer 1.
Commitment to Client
2. Self-Determination
3. Informed Consent
, 4. Competence
5. Cultural Competence and Social Diversity
6. Conflicts of Interest
7. Privacy and Confidentiality
8. Access to records
9. Sexual Relationships
10. Physical Contact
11. Sexual Harassment
12. Derogatory Language
13. Payment for Services
14. Clients who lack decision-making capacity
15. Interruption of services
16. Termination of services
Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients
Commitment to Client - Answer Social workers' primary responsibility is to promote the well-being of
clients. In general, clients' interests are primary. However, social workers' responsibility to the larger
society or specific legal obligations may on limited occasions supersede the loyalty owed clients, and
clients should be so advised.
(Examples include when a social worker is required by law to report that a client has abused a child or
has threatened to harm self or others.)
Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients
Self-Determination - Answer Social workers respect and promote the right of clients to self-
determination and assist clients in their efforts to identify and clarify their goals. Social workers may limit
clients' right to self-determination when, in the social workers' professional judgment, clients' actions or
potential actions pose a serious, foreseeable, and imminent risk to themselves or others.
Questions And Answers Graded A+.
The 6 Core Values of Social Work - Answer Service
Social Justice
Dignity and worth of the person
Importance of human relationships
Integrity
Competence
NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #1 - Answer The Code identifies core values on which social work's mission is based.
NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #2 - Answer The Code summarizes broad ethical principles that reflect the profession's core
values and establishes a set of specific ethical standards that should be used to guide social work
practice.
NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #3 - Answer The Code is designed to help social workers identify relevant considerations when
professional obligations conflict or ethical uncertainties arise.
NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #4 - Answer The Code provides ethical standards to which the general public can hold the
social work profession accountable.
NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #5 - Answer The Code socializes practitioners new to the field to social work's mission, values,
ethical principles, and ethical standards.
,NASW Code of Ethics
Purpose #6 - Answer The Code articulates standards that the social work profession itself can use to
assess whether social workers have engaged in unethical conduct. NASW has formal procedures to
adjudicate ethics complaints filed against its members.* In subscribing to this Code, social workers are
required to cooperate in its implementation, participate in NASW adjudication proceedings, and abide by
any NASW disciplinary rulings or sanctions based on it.
What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Service? - Answer Ethical Principle: Social workers' primary
goal is to help people in need and to address social problems.
Social workers elevate service to others above self-interest. Social workers draw on their knowledge,
values, and skills to help people in need and to address social problems. Social workers are encouraged
to volunteer some portion of their professional skills with no expectation of significant financial return
(pro bono service).
What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Social Justice? - Answer Ethical Principle: Social workers
challenge social injustice.
Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed
individuals and groups of people. Social workers' social change efforts are focused primarily on issues of
poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social injustice. These activities seek to
promote sensitivity to and knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers
strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and
meaningful participation in decision making for all people.
What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Dignity and Worth of the Person? - Answer Ethical
Principle: Social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person.
Social workers treat each person in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and
cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers promote clients' socially responsible self-determination.
Social workers seek to enhance clients' capacity and opportunity to change and to address their own
needs. Social workers are cognizant of their dual responsibility to clients and to the broader society. They
seek to resolve conflicts between clients' interests and the broader society's interests in a socially
responsible manner consistent with the values, ethical principles, and ethical standards of the
profession.
,What is the Ethical Principle for Importance of Human Relationships? - Answer Ethical Principle: Social
workers recognize the central importance of human relationships.
Social workers understand that relationships between and among people are an important vehicle for
change. Social workers engage people as partners in the helping process. Social workers seek to
strengthen relationships among people in a purposeful effort to promote, restore, maintain, and
enhance the well-being of individuals, families, social groups, organizations, and communities.
What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Integrity? - Answer Ethical Principle: Social workers behave
in a trustworthy manner.
Social workers are continually aware of the profession's mission, values, ethical principles, and ethical
standards and practice in a manner consistent with them. Social workers act honestly and responsibly
and promote ethical practices on the part of the organizations with which they are affiliated.
What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Competence? - Answer Ethical Principle: Social workers
practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise.
Social workers continually strive to increase their professional knowledge and skills and to apply them in
practice. Social workers should aspire to contribute to the knowledge base of the profession.
Ethical standards relevant to the professional activities of all social workers fall into the 6 categories.
Name them: - Answer (1) social workers' ethical responsibilities to clients
(2) social workers' ethical responsibilities to colleagues
(3) social workers' ethical responsibilities in practice settings
(4) social workers' ethical responsibilities as professionals
(5) social workers' ethical responsibilities to the social work profession
(6) social workers' ethical responsibilities to the broader society.
Name the 16 listed ways social workers are ethically responsible to their clients - Answer 1.
Commitment to Client
2. Self-Determination
3. Informed Consent
, 4. Competence
5. Cultural Competence and Social Diversity
6. Conflicts of Interest
7. Privacy and Confidentiality
8. Access to records
9. Sexual Relationships
10. Physical Contact
11. Sexual Harassment
12. Derogatory Language
13. Payment for Services
14. Clients who lack decision-making capacity
15. Interruption of services
16. Termination of services
Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients
Commitment to Client - Answer Social workers' primary responsibility is to promote the well-being of
clients. In general, clients' interests are primary. However, social workers' responsibility to the larger
society or specific legal obligations may on limited occasions supersede the loyalty owed clients, and
clients should be so advised.
(Examples include when a social worker is required by law to report that a client has abused a child or
has threatened to harm self or others.)
Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients
Self-Determination - Answer Social workers respect and promote the right of clients to self-
determination and assist clients in their efforts to identify and clarify their goals. Social workers may limit
clients' right to self-determination when, in the social workers' professional judgment, clients' actions or
potential actions pose a serious, foreseeable, and imminent risk to themselves or others.
