Cultural Awareness And Social Diversity Case Study

Cultural Awareness and Social Diversity

The NASW Code of Ethics highlights the need for social workers to ensure they have proper education about social diversity. They should be well versed in the adversities that face discriminated groups (Workers, N.A., 2008). This standard applies to the case since it addresses sexual orientation. The Code of Ethics makes it clear that as part of their professional values social workers should seek to understand diversity among members of society. The standard means that it is ethically required of a social worker to assist groups that could face bigotry in any manner in society.

The boy involved in the case has undergone a tremendous amount of trauma and hardship for his age so any social worker involved in his case should handle it with the utmost sensitivity. The standard of cultural awareness and social diversity means the social worker should help provide a safe environment for the boy and make him feel welcome and offers acceptance. This standard seems to be the most important especially considering the ethical responsibility to a client which is always to put their interests before your own.

Commitment to Clients

The Code

It shows that professional values and personal morals do not always have to clash. These values can be used concurrently to provide better services to clients as a social worker. A lot of these professional values practitioners follow are extracted from morally and ethically accepted practices which means they go hand in hand with many personal standards which are also mainly tailored in accordance to moral and ethical beliefs and practices. They all focus on treating every individual equally and fairly and putting the client’s interests first just as the ethical standards