Social Work Ethics Paper

Kirst-Ashman (2015) states 6 different core values provided via (NASW, 2008). One of which is the value and ethics of "Service". This is a professional core ethic that every accredited program must integrate into their student social workers in order for them to achieve competence when applying "frameworks of ethical decision-making" to "practice, research, and policy arenas" (CSWE, 2015, p.3). The important core value of "Service" has the definition of a practitioner being able to provide the client with "help, resources, and benefits so they can achieve their maximum potential" (Kirst-Ashman, 2015). With this being said, social workers that are practicing are and should be held to a high standard of following this ethic in a professional

It should not matter whether or not their personal beliefs on the specific matter conflict, nor whether or not others in society agree or disagree with the value as well. After all, it is a social workers job to serve and help their vulnerable citizens, isn't it? If a social worker does not apply the professional ethics of "Service" to their clients, what are they really there for? Even aside from the other 5 professional ethics, providing the clients in need with the proper and professional services should be the practitioner's first priority. This is because all other ethics cannot be put into practice if the social worker is not providing the help and resources that the client is in need of in the first place, therefore, making it impossible for the client to reach their maximum potential. Especially considering that the line of work social workers is dedicated to is based upon helping others better

My grandmother ended up having 6 children at a young age and all but one was adopted out. That one was my mother. Social workers also did not provide the adequate help for my grandmother, and a result my mother suffered, starting a cycle of abuse that was inevitably continued onto my mother's children. We moved to Nevada when I was 10 years old due to my father's sudden passing in an automobile accident and because social workers previously did not uphold their professional ethics, this cycle of abuse continued when we moved. My sisters and I endured abuse to an extent until I was 17 years old. By this time, I had one child of my own already and had moved out due to the abuse, as well as my eldest sister whom also had a daughter of her own at that