Working ethics : how to be fair in a culturally complex world / Richard Rowson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowson, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Professional ethics.

Physical Description:

198 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006.

Summary:

Social care professionals frequently find themselves facing a dilemma in which they have to make difficult and important decisions that affect the lives of service users profoundly. An Introduction to Personal and Professional Ethics is a thought provoking and accessible guide for practitioners working as individuals and within multi-professional teams, to help them to ask the ethical questions that will lead to a better informed decision.

Choices made by social care professionals are influenced by many different and sometimes conflicting ethical perspectives and systems of social rules and priorities; these are defined by law, professional codes of conduct and practical efficiency. Richard Rowson outlines the range of moral positions that inform our decisions and places them within a wider, multi-cultural context of moral issues. He encourages the reader to consider the basis for moral choices, their relationship with religious ideas and the interaction of reason and emotion in their use.

In so doing he enables practitioners to think through their own ethical ideas and make morally responsible decisions, and to appreciate and accommodate the moral outlook and choices of people from a variety of backgrounds. This is an invaluable guide to those seeking to inform, coordinate and refine their critical choices in social work, probation, health care and the police force.

Contents:

Part I: Seeking ethical values for the professions

Sources of guidance and the basis of ethics

Seeking a foundation for ethics in the professions

Values integral to the role of professions

Part II: Exploring values

Seeking the best results

Treating people justly and fairly : the principle of justice and the fairness of compensating disadvantages

Treating people justly and fairly 2 : taking into account what people deserve and their entitlement, needs and capacities

Respecting autonomy

Acting with professional integrity

Part III: Applying values to practice

A framework for ethical thinking in the professions situations

Dealing with dilemmas

Blame

Rights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 193) and index.

ISBN:

1853027502

OCLC:

62509107

Publisher Number:

9781853027505