Believers and Skeptics: Where Social Worker Situate Themselves Regarding the Code of Ethics

Fine, Marshall; Teram, Eli

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“…Researchers have described ethics codes as statements of professional identity and covenants with society (Ponton & Duba, 2009), noting that some professionals have faith in codes of ethics while some are skeptical (Fine & Teram, 2009). Researchers have examined ethics within the frameworks of diagnosis (Dougherty, 2005;Kress, Hoffman, & Eriksen, 2010), testing and assessment (Naugle, 2009), spirituality (Steen, Engles, & Thweatt, 2006), therapeutic prayer (Weld & Eriksen, 2007), and computer-based supervision (Vaccaro & Lambie, 2007).…”

Section: Defining and Exploring Ethicsmentioning

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The Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision Volume 6 Issue 2 Fall 2014

Renfro-Michel¹

2014

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2014

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“…Some professionals, including Australian psychologists, question the need for a profession to have a code (see e.g., Fine & Teram, 2009;Grounds, Gunn, Myers, Rosner, & Busch, 2010;Warren, 2010). Warren (2010), for instance, refers to the work of Johan Anderson (1942Anderson ( , 1943Anderson ( , 1944) whose philosophy was "that there is an ethical quality, goodness, which characterizes certain human activities or social movements, but which is fully objective, natural, and non-prescriptive" (Mackie, 1962, p. 273).…”

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The Development of a Code for Australian Psychologists

Allan

2011

Ethics & Behavior

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Section 35(1)(c) of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act (National Act; requires the newly formed Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) "to develop or approve standards, codes and guidelines". In 2010 the PsyBA decided to initially adopt the Australian Psychological Society's (APS) Code of Ethics (Code; and develop a new code in the future with the involvement of key stakeholders without deciding, for instance, what the nature of this could code will be. The PsyBA now has to decide exactly how it will proceed in future.My aim in this article is to examine the options available to the PsyBA by exploring the definition and function of codes, presenting a history of the APS Code and considering approaches that had been followed in Europe, Israel, New Zealand and South Africa.Keywords: code of ethics, code of practice, ethical principles, minimum behavioral standards A code for Australian psychologists 3 The Development of an Australian Code for PsychologistsThe Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) is one of ten national health practitioner boards that have been established as part of the national registration and accreditation scheme for Australian health practitioners under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act (National Act; 2009). Section (s)3(2)(a) of the National Act stipulates that the primary objective of the boards is to provide protection to the public by ensuring that only practitioners who are suitably trained and qualified to practice in a competent and ethical manner are registered to do so. In s4 the legislator describes the functions of the national boards and specify that they must be exercised in accordance with the guiding principles set out in s3(3). The guiding principle that is particularly relevant for this article is s3(3)(a) which provides that boards must "operate in a transparent, accountable, efficient and effective way". The function of the PsyBA that is most pertinent is set out in s35(1)(c) which authorizes it to "develop or approve standards, codes and guidelines". After consultation during the early part of 2010 the PsyBA "decided to initially adopt the Australian Psychological Society's (APS) Code of Ethics (Code) and develop a new code in the future with the involvement of key stakeholders" (PsyBA, 2010a, p. 2). The PsyBA now has to decide exactly how it will proceed in future. My aim in this article is to examine the options available to the PsyBA by exploring the definition and function of codes, presenting a history of the APS Code and considering approaches that had been followed in Europe, Israel, New Zealand and South Africa. that is, to be used by registrants as a guide to self-regulation the PsyBA to regulate registrants. Definition and function of CodesOther than these two functions, scholars believe that codes have numerous other functions. To start with, codes are used to educate psychologists (e.g., Allan, 2010a;Keith-Spiegel, 1994) regarding the ethical principles and standards of the profession taking into account the particular c...

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“…Using a normative philosophical conceptualisation, social work is arguably moral work because members of the profession are committed to a certain moral schema reflected in the shared and socially agreed to values of social justice and respect for people regardless of differences in individual moral beliefs (Cooper, 1966;Gray 2010). While recognising that there are variations between social work codes of ethics, cultures and contexts, shared values are reflected in these codes where they have been developed (Banks, 2012;Congress & McAuliffe, 2006;Fine & Teram, 2009).…”

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“…Although social work may share a common morality, some authors suggest the purpose of social work may have become lost in the bureaucratic nature of codes of ethics (Banks, 2003(Banks, , 1998Fine & Teram, 2009;Weinberg, 2010;Weinberg and Campbell, 2014). In order to achieve credibility and acceptability, it is suggested that codes of ethics have become disciplinary, technocratic and procedural, and in that process the norms that describe and govern behaviour have become disconnected from social work's purpose (Banks, 2003(Banks, , 1998Fine & Teram, 2009;Weinberg, 2010;Weinberg and Campbell, 2014). The relevance of codes of ethics that essentially provide descriptive understandings of morality and a focus on individual behaviour are questioned.…”

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Moral distress as experienced by hospital social workers in South Korea and Australia

Fronek

Briggs

Kim

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Social Work in Health Care

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This exploratory, qualitative research explored the ethical problems faced by hospital social workers in South Korea and Australia, and what and who influenced their decision making using a focus group design. Although dilemmas of boundaries, confidentiality, self-determination, and other complex scenarios found in practice were identified, moral distress, a consequence of the unresolvable conflicts, dominated participants' narratives. This was particularly the case for the Korean social workers in this sample. A thematic analysis of the data yielded three main themes: 'Under pressure-"It's very uncomfortable"'; 'Failing our patients'; and 'Coping and codes'.

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Believers and Skeptics: Where Social Worker Situate Themselves Regarding the Code of Ethics

Cited by 18 publications

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The Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision Volume 6 Issue 2 Fall 2014

The Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision Volume 6 Issue 2 Fall 2014

The Development of a Code for Australian Psychologists

Moral distress as experienced by hospital social workers in South Korea and Australia

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