How does ethics impact community work?
Ethics guides social workers in their daily activities and helps them to judge whether their conducts are fair and justified. Ethics establishes the values and principles that social workers should base their behavior while attending to the community. Ethics promotes fairness in community work by guiding social workers to do the right thing. For instance, a therapist who follows the code of ethics in the hospital knows that every patient in the hospital has a right to treatment. Therefore will not discriminate patients due to their race or color. This way, there is fairness in public services. The code of ethics also promotes competency in community work. For instance, a therapist is expected to maintain patient confidentiality, making the patient comfortable, and this promotes treatment. Therefore, the code of ethics promotes justice, fairness, equality, and competency in community work.
Ethical standards and how they impact the community
Ethical standards that should be considered by social workers include informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, and commitment to clients. These standards ensure justice and fairness when providing community services. They are also vital to social workers as they enable them to do their work in a responsible way. Social workers ought to provide services using the language that a customer understands. Moreover, they should provide honest information regardless of how sad the news is for the benefit of the customer. The social worker should also be committed to clients. Their primary responsibility should be customers. They should invest their time and knowledge to promote the clients’ well being. They also ought to protect the privacy of the client when need be. For instance, if a child is likely to be harmed by the parents when they reveal their secrets, it is up to the therapist to protect the child’s privacy. However, if the child has suicidal thoughts, it is the responsibility of a therapist to consult with the parent’s child to promote her/his wellness. The standard of privacy and confidentiality also promotes in rendering services to a community. according to the health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA), a social worker is supposed to respect patients’ privacy from third parties. Maintaining privacy protects the patient’s information from falling into hands that would destroy the patient’s reputation.