Ethics in Social Work

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This paper discusses and analyzes The National Association of Social Workers' ((NASW) code of ethics, examining both the the social role of social workers and the power they hold over the lives of their clients.

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"Reading over the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) code of ethics, one is struck by the gap between their high-sounding moral pronouncements about appropriate treatment of clients and fellow workers and the social function of social workers in America. Karl Marx said something to the effect that charity serves to assuage the guilty consciences of the elite while never changing the conditions that generate poverty. While even Marx would probably not deny the indisputable good that social workers provide in enhancing the survival..."

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