Ethical Dilemma In Social Work

Social workers may try their best to avoid ethical dilemmas, but the truth is they are faced with ethical dilemmas every day. In case 2.14 a social worker is faced with an ethical dilemma and does not realize the true meaning of her purpose in the situation. Instead of focusing on the child’s fundamental cause for needing her help, she focused on ways to change his sexuality. The social workers' approach of the case was inappropriate and violated several National Association of Social Works (NASW) codes of ethics (The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics, 2017).
The national association of social workers code of ethics serves six purposes and was designed to guide social workers conduct. Social workers are known to be competence,
This indicates that the client did not have a constant adult in his life, who he could have trust and asked to sever questions. By the social worker knowing her clients' recent background information she should have intervened and taken the reasonable steps to identify the clients’ well-being and interest. Once she had identified the clients' interest she could have explained his rights to him in a way that he would have understood. At this point, the client would have had a better understanding of his situation and what is occurring. If the social worker would have put her personal values to the side and focused on the central idea, such as the abuse and neglect the child has been exposed to, she would have been able to meet the standards of code 1.14 (The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics,
A social worker must be alert and avoid all conflicts of interest at all times (The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics, 2017). In this case the social worker was not alert and did not exercise her professional discretion. The clients interest should always come first, and the social worker should disregard her own personal life or beliefs. A social worker should be able to provide help to a client no matter of their race, religion, or sexual orientation (The National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics,