Date/Time
3 Ethics CEs
This workshop meets the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners’ requirements for Ethics CEs.
Although many social workers pursue careers in macro-level practice areas, such as program operations, management, and policy, most social work ethics trainings are focused on the ethical challenges encountered in clinical-level work.
Macro practice, however, is replete with ethical dilemmas unique to that level of work, including where the consequences of ethical errors include the possibility of significant harm to large numbers of people.
This course zeroes in on social work ethical challenges specific to macro settings, especially governmental program management and operations. Attendees will re-evaluate the familiar advice many of us learned in school that "if your agency is doing something unethical, you need to quit" and examine the limits to that approach in terms of duties to clients.
Considering the ethical challenges encountered in macro practice in both "domain" and "host" agency settings, this course is designed to offer social workers both a decision-making structure and a defined set of macro-specific intervention and action tools.
Learning Objectives:
Define macro social work practice in large institutional settings, such as government bureaucracies.
Enumerate, with reference to the NASW Code of Ethics, potentially conflicting duties of macro practitioners.
Elaborate three core interventions, other than quitting, for macro practitioners facing unethical agency behaviors.
Location: Virtual
Sponsored By: University of Maryland School of Social Work
Cost: $70.00-$90.00
For questions, email cpe@ssw.umaryland.edu