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Ethical Decision Making Michelle Leasure SWRK/220: Professional And Ethical Behaviors For Social Work Practice Meredith Lewis 12/05/2023

Introduction Hello new social workers, My name is Michelle Leasure. I am excited to be presenting to all of you today. The target population I have chosen to talk to you all about today is the elderly. The social justice issue that I have chosen to inform you all about is housing.

Housing For The Elderly Safe and accessible housing is a key social determinant of health. In my home town there is no affordable housing for the elderly which results in them living in the streets an being homeless. This is a big social Justice issue within the world and I feel we as future social workers could make a difference in ending this social justice issue for the elderly. I can’t wait to be the change for this issue.

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Ethics and Cultural Competence Cultural Competence is important in any type of social justice issue because we as social workers need to be able to move from being aware of our own cultural heritage to becoming aware of the cultural heritage of those we are serving. This cultural awareness enables us social workers to value and celebrate differences in others as well as demonstrate comfort with cultural differences. Ethical competence allows us to be aware of the impact on our ethical decision making of our clients’ and their own personal values and cultural and religious beliefs and practices.

Guidelines For How Ethical Conduct And Cultural Competence Will Impact Our Social Roles One tenet from the code of ethics that a social worker can apply when working with the elderly is dignity and worth of person. This is relevant to my target population of the elderly because it is imports to remember the elderly person's beliefs and sense of who they are. We want to promote them being able to be as independent as they can be. Another tenet from the NASW code that can be applied to my target population is Importance of human relationships. This is important because as a social worker it is important to build that relationship with who we serve. So that the client(the elderly population in this case) know that they can count on us.

How Cultural Competence Guidelines Can Help Navigate Ethical Dilemmas Cultural competence guidelines can help navigate ethical dilemmas by giving us social workers an idea of what to do next after the dilemma arises. The guidelines also help us figure out how to handle the client without pushing our beliefs onto the client.

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Barriers To Cultural Competence Unconscious Bias: Social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness. This can prevent ethical decision making in the social work practice by making us jump to decisions for our clients that aren't always the best/right decision for said client. Tunnel Vision: One’s tendency to focus on a single goal or point of view. This can prevent ethical decision making in the social work practice by not focusing on the big picture and instead focusing on one idea. Discrimination: The unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race,age,gender, or sexual orientation. This can prevent ethical decision making in the social work practice by the social worker refusing to help a client because the social worker doesn't like the clients characteristics.

Ethical Decision Making One ethical decision making framework that I as a social worker would use to prevent tunnel vision when working with the elderly is “Clients interests are always primary.” I would use this because it would help me to always make sure that my clients interests are my top priority no matter what. A challenge to using this approach is that I would most likely be focusing on my clients interests more than focusing on how to help my client get to the end result that they want.

Conclusion/Call To Action A few things you as social workers can do to strengthen your ability to make ethical decisions in social work practice are peer consultation, discussion with a supervisor/manager, review of best practices and relevant standards.

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References Mattison, M. (2000). Ethical decision making: The person in the process. Social Work, 45(3), 201-212. Miller, P. (2007). Ethical decision making in social work and counselling. Toronto, ON: Thomson Nelson

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