Social work commitment to clients

Abstract: In ancient times the so-called Hippocratic Oath was created to formulate, beside others, the commitment of physicians to their patients: “I will use those dietary regimens which will benefit my patients according to my greatest ability and judgment…” With this commitment, there were established helping professions as professions, which primarily follow the good of others. Among other helping professions besides medicine, social work has the strongest commitment to their clients. However, for example, the psychology helping profession is too, but it is still also a tool of control and repression (i.e., with the police, army, and justice system or prison service). The control and repression aspect is significantly restricted in medicine and social work. Also, social work regarding child protection, when social workers act in the name of the state, uses legal powers and make decisions about the future of children and their families, is a social worker’s commitment to their clients – which means children. With the child protection agenda, a social worker has the mandate and duty to protect children in the name of the state. The commitment to the client dominates in social work.
Also, this book is aimed at clients of social work. To work with spirituality together with ethical responsibility in social work means primarily to take respect clients of social workers and to have commitment to their needs and life goals. This chapter should explain how the commitment of social work is grounded in the professional ethics of social work (first section), which means the mandate of social work to intervene in particularly the lives of clients and processes in society (second and third section) and which conclusions (third section) could be derived from it for the aim of this book – in the sense of spirituality in social work and ethics in the social work. However, spirituality in social work is generally discussed from the point of view of spirituality and its importance in the life of client (Hodge, 2015, pp.13-26) or from the point of view of the history of social work (Dudley, 2016, p.12), the aim of this book is to discuss the spirituality also from the point of view of social work. The chapter explain this approach in the context of social work

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• Standort: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Umfang: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: Englisch

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Soziale Probleme, Sozialdienste, Versicherungen
• Schlagwort: Sozialarbeit ; Spiritualität ; Ethik ; Klient ; Engagement ; Psychologischer Kontrakt ; Einstellung

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wo): Freiburg
• (wer): Universität
• (wann): 2022
• Urheber: Opatrný, Michal

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: 10.6094/UNIFR/221395
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2213950
• Rechteinformation: Kein Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.