Roles and Skills of Social Workers

They are advocates and help keep people out of harm’s way. They work with people who are in high risk categories through education and program management to try to empower them to improve their lives. The social work profession has a broad set of core values and corresponding principles that make up the code of ethics of social work: 1. Value: Service o Ethical Principle: Social workers’ primary goal is to help people in need

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Aims and objective of social work: To promote effective and human service system. To promote problem solving option and developmental capacities. To develop and improve social policy. Caring and curing changing the society. Social work is a profession that is built on, according to the AASW Code of Ethics: the pursuit and maintenance of human well-being.

The ethical value of service is described as a social workers’ primary goal to assist people in need and to address social problems. Social workers promote service to others over self-interest. Social workers use their knowledge, skills, and values to assist people in need and to address social problems. The social justice value’s purpose is to challenge social injustice. Social workers chase social change, predominantly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people.

And how the social worker impact our society. As well as gaining knowledge how to help the humans and learn about the human behaviors. The main purpose of social workers are focused to find the right solution to fulfil other lives. People choose social worker career and make change in our society. Work Cited Wittenberg, Renee.Opportunities in social worker careers.VGM Careers Books:

“In this essay, we have been asked to critically assess the professional values in the ‘British Association of Social Work’ (BASW). With this the concepts of ethics and how this operates in social work practice and analyse the general role in governing and representatives bodies in social work practice”. Values are described as set of rules and guides in the right and wrong decisions we make. Values facilitates the decisions in recognising what is worthy and valuable, with this, weighs out the important and less important, when there is a conflict of values. Ethics is set of moral principles of values, and these contribute to individuals and what groups live by.

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