Workshop Title | Ethical Values in Social Work
Main Organizer Institution | National College of Social Workers of Romania, Iasi Branch.
Co-organizers | LUMEN Research Center in Social & Humanistic Sciences, Romania & Valahia University from Targoviste, Romania
Overview |
Social work profession should be characterized by a reflective equilibrium based theory, the professional experiences being triggered by the values that give the nature of this profession.
In our opinion, the professional values are operational ones, which correlate the organizational constitutive values and the effective practice of the professionals. Professionalization in social work implies a powerful adherence of the professionals to the values that are deeply human and internalize them, thus bringing their contribution to the development of the profession, in the spirit of constitutive values of justice and the public good.
Ethical decisions are the result or ability built by the context of previous moral development, the interest for ethics inside organizations being determined by a series of social factors.
In our vision, the social services are grounded in social action because they are directly interested in the efficiency of transforming the social space, while supervision, both the classical professional one and the supervision of ethics, is based on the communicative action. The strategic action and the instrumental action can be seen as forms of social action, which aim at the institution of the relationship of power. The character of the communicative action of social work is given by the relationship beneficiary – social worker centred on social change, based both on behaviour modification, as in the influence of the social services on the social environment of the beneficiary, in order to facilitate their social integration.
Scope | The purpose of the workshop is to debate social practice under the challenges of contemporary ethics. There are expected papers approaching the issue of current social work from the perspective of the governing ethical values, at theoretical and practical level, without drawing a precise disciplinary border. We encourage the transdisciplinary approaches that exceed the existing cleavage between theoretical and empirical. We invite social workers, academics, bachelor, masters and doctoral students interested in ethics in social services.
Topics |
- Ethical values in Social work practice;
- Promoting individual autonomy;
- From individual to social responsibility in social work;
- The principle of justice in social work practices and resources;
- Governing principles of social work practice;
- Social work and bioethics;
- Ethical frameworks of social programmes and strategies;
- Social work supervision;
- Supervision of ethics;
- Ethics management in social practice;
- From charity to professional social services;
- Strengths- based social work practice;
- Ethical dilemma solving in social work practice;
- Ethical analysis of social work cases;
- Ethics expertise in social work;
- Counseling of ethics;
- Organizational ethical audit;
- Good practice and codes of ethics;
- Ethics committees functioning in social work practice
Period | November 17-19, 2016
Registration | Please send your proposals at lumeninternational15@gmail.com using the template from DOWNLOADS MEPDEV2016
Deadline workshop registration | Please see the conference deadlines
We expect papers related to the importance of ethics and values- based practice in social work. We encourage (qualitative and quantitative) research on the practice of social workers, which particularly analyzes the significance the social workers give to their professional (ethical) values.
Publication of the papers | IGI Global Collective volume
| Sosirea şi înregistrarea participanţilor | |
| Sesiunea I | Prof. Univ. Dr. Hab. Antonio SANDU – Asistent social principal, Membru Colegiul Naţional al Asistenţilor Sociali din România – Sucursala Teritorială Iaşi,
Universitatea “Ştefan cel Mare” din Suceava, Facultatea de Ştiinţe Economice şi Administraţie Publică, Director – Editura LUMEN
Dr. Roxana NECULA, Asistent social principal, Preşedinte, Colegiul Naţional al Asistenţilor Sociali din România – Sucursala Teritorială Iaşi, Cadru didactic asociat Universitatea “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi, Facultatea de Filosofie şi Ştiinţe Social Politice
Cuvânt de deschidere
Dr. Alina FRUNZĂ – Asistent social principal, Membru Corp de Control Profesional, Colegiul Naţional al Asistenţilor Sociali din România – Sucursala Teritorială Iaşi, Coordonator Centru de Formare Profesională al D.G.A.S.P.C. Iaşi, Cadru didactic asociat Universitatea “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi, Facultatea de Filosofie şi Ştiinţe Social Politice Drd. Elena UNGURU – Asistent social, Asistent cercetare Centrul de Cercetări Socio-Umane LUMEN “Etica şi deontologia profesională a serviciilor şi cadrelor din sistemul medico-social”
Conf. Univ. Dr. Nina MIHALACHE – Asistent social principal, Membru Colegiul Naţional al Asistenţilor Sociali din România – Sucursala Teritorială Iaşi, Universitatea “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi, Facultatea de Filosofie şi Ştiinţe Social Politice Roxana Demetra STRATULAT – Asistent cercetare Centrul de Cercetări Socio-Umane LUMEN “Etica şi practica în asistenţa socială” |
| Pauză de cafea | |
| Sesiunea II | Dr. Ana FRUNZĂ – Asistent social, Cercetător III Centrul de Cercetări Socio-Umane LUMEN
Prof. Univ. Dr. Hab. Antonio SANDU – Asistent social principal, Membru Colegiul Naţional al Asistenţilor Sociali din România – Sucursala Teritorială Iaşi, Universitatea “Ştefan cel Mare” din Suceava, Facultatea de Ştiinţe Economice şi Administraţie Publică, Director – Editura LUMEN “Instrumente ale expertizei etice în instituţiile de asistenţă socială”
Dr. Roxana NECULA – Asistent social principal, Preşedinte, Colegiul Naţional al Asistenţilor Sociali din România – Sucursala Teritorială Iaşi, Cadru didactic asociat Universitatea “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi, Facultatea de Filosofie şi Ştiinţe Social Politice Elena Mocanu – Asistent social specialist, Membru Colegiul Naţional al Asistenţilor Sociali din România – Sucursala Teritorială Iaşi “Confidenţialitatea – principiu etic fundamental în practica asistenţei sociale” |
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