SP32047: Qualifying practice 3: ethics and values
[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]
Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
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Assessment Summary: | CWRA 100% |
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Requisites: | While taking this module you must take SP32045 |
Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of this unit students will be able to:
1. Identify and analyse ethical dilemmas and conflicts in both interpersonal and professional contexts (PS 1.2; 3.1; 3.2; 3.7; 4.8; 6.2)
2. Apply the profession's ethical principles and legislation, taking account of these in reaching decisions (PS 3.1; 3.2; 3.11; 4.2; 4.3; 4.5; 4.6)
3. Apply theoretical/philosophical ethical approaches to ethical decision making (PS 1.1; 1.3; 3.2; 4.1; 4.2)
4. Recognise the impact of personal values on professional social work and analytic skills in addressing ethical dilemmas and conflicts in social work (PS 3.7)
* Social Work England's Professional Standards (PS) |
Synopsis: | Develop a critical understanding of the ethics and values applied to social work practice.
Drawing on your placement experiences, you will explore and critically engage with ethical dilemmas and tensions in values arising in everyday social work practice; and learn about philosophical and theoretical approaches to ethical decision-making.
Applied methods and frameworks will be covered to enable you to undertake ethical decision-making in social work practice. |
Content: | * Tensions between personal, cultural and professional values in social work * Universalism, culturalism and value pluralism * Theoretical and philosophical ethical approaches to ethical decision-making * Applied ethical decision-making in complex cases |
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SP32047 is a Must Pass Unit on the following courses:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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