Social Work Case Study Summary

This case involves Angelina and Philip who are employed at IMH and attend church at Union Station even though they are two different organizations they are linked as one. Philip is a Sunday school teacher, leader of the men’s fellowship group. Angelina leads the women’s Bible study group. Being devoted Christians, they moved into the community to be closer to church. Angelina has job experience in Social services as a Social Worker for fifteen years. She is offered a position at IMH as the Director of Social Service, she been employed now for four years. Angelina is very familiar with the NASW Code of Ethics, and she questions herself is she breaking the ethical rules by participating in the church activities, while she sees some of the parishioners are clients at IMH.

Spiritual Vales With Angelina, strong Spiritual values believe in helping anyone or who needs assistance. Angelina resides in the community where she works and lives by her church. Philip also is known a good neighbor always helping people from his church and even Angelina’s clients who live in the neighborhood. They believed that this is the correct thing to do

F. G. Reamer, Ph.D. believes that “social workers should attempt to distinguish between private conduct that directly interferes with, or has the potential to interfere with their performance of professional functions and obligations and private conduct. That directly interfere with or has the potential to interfere with, their performance of professional functions and obligations and private conduct that is tangential or unrelated to professional obligations” (Professor at Rhode Island College, 2018). Angelina reminds her clients that she sees at IMH that she is their social worker at IMH and her role in the church is separate from her work, that she is a parishioner and a Sunday, school