Societal Duties, Values, Professional Ethics in SocietyLaajuus (5 cr)

Objectives

Students:
- can explain the agenda and objectives of social services in society
- know the values and ethical principles of social services
- can assess and describe the significance of values and ethical principles in their work
- are able to identify the importance of humanistic perspective in social services
- are able to take the clients’ individual needs into consideration and to work in situations which involve conflicting values

Content

- Social problems and their prevention in social services
- The societal agenda of social services
- Basics of ethics, values, and different conceptions of human nature
- The control, care, and humanistic helping functions of social services
- The code of ethics in social services
- IFSW definition of social work, values, and agenda
- UN declaration of human rights and the rights of the child
- Inclusion