TY - BOOK AU - Pullen-Sansfaç̧on,Annie AU - Cowden,Stephen TI - The ethical foundations of social work SN - 9781408224434 AV - HV10.5 PUL PY - 2012/// PB - Pearson KW - Social service KW - Moral and ethical aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preface -- Publisher's acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What is social work? -- Social work histories -- Ethics and values in social work -- The social dimensions of social work ethics -- Power in social work -- The idea of empowerment in social work -- Bureaucracy and social work -- Theorising ethical practice -- Respect for the person, self-determination and idea of universality : the Kantian perspective -- Social justice : the ethics of mill and rawls -- Professionalism in social work : character and relationship-based approaches to ethics -- Conclusion -- References -- Index N2 - The Ethical Foundations of Social Work provides you with an engaging, theoretical and practice-based grounding in social work ethics. The authors first examine when, how and why principles and debates historically emerged, then explicitly map them onto everyday ethical challenges and situations in social work practice. As a result, the book promotes an ethically conscious approach where principles can be flexibly and confidently applied as tools to help you with critical problem solving ER -