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To know their world,
step into ours.
Dual degree: M.S. in child development/M.S.W.
in clinical social work with Loyola University Chicago
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graduate school in child development • Chicago
IS IT ETHICAL? 101 Scenarios In Everyday Social Work Practice
A Discussion Workbook
by Thomas Horn, MSW, RSW
What would you do if you were asked to be your hairdresser’s social worker? How about if you developed a
crush on a client? Or if you unexpectedly received a $100 check in the mail from an agency to whom you had referred
a client?
Social work is filled with these kinds of questions.They come up every day in professional life.Will your students
be prepared to make the ethical decision?
Very few social workers go to work looking for ways to exploit, manipulate, or mislead the peopel with whom
they work—clients, colleagues, managers, the government, or the general public.Yet, it is possible to cross into unethical
behavior unintentionally, often as a result of poor decisions that are misguided. The line between ethical and unethical
can become blurred.
This workbook provides students with 101 different everyday scenarios and challenges them to think about what
the ethical and unethical choices might be in each situation. Through examining these scenarios on their own and in
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