| 教學內容 |
社會工作是一門助人自助的人群服務專業，然而在助人的過程中，卻經常面臨難以決策的「倫理困境」，例如是否該申請延長處遇「受虐兒童」的安置期間或是否將兒童帶離家庭，其判斷的依據在哪裡？而解決此一問題的策略有二，一為研讀「社會工作倫理與價值」的相關課程，另一為由實務工作累積相關經驗並發展成為實務工作的倫理守則。但是，不論哪一途徑，終將面對某些無法判斷的「灰色地帶」，因而形成「誰都沒有權利告知社工師該如何提供最佳（the best）判斷的託辭。然而，真的誰都沒有權力嗎？更確切的說，應是沒有權利告訴社工師「何為最佳判斷」，但至少確有「何謂對、錯存在」。因此，本課程的目標有下列幾點：
一、讓學生瞭解與社會工作倫理與價值選擇的相關知識；
二、結合學生的實習經驗，並以「個案研討」型式，以讓學生反思「倫理困境」等相關議題；
三、涵養學生實務工作的敏感度，以增強其職場競爭力；
四、邀請實務工作者分享其實務經驗。 |
Syllabus |
Many clients/cases that social workers face present an ethical dilemma in the process of welfare services. How such a client/case is handled will either benefit or harm the persons, for that reason alone, what a social worker decides to do in response to a case is an ethical decision. However, the question is how best to help social workers and students wrestle with the ethical aspects of social work practice. They need to make the best ethical decision they can. There are two ways to proceed. We can study ethical theory and apply it to practice, or we can examine the practice to tease out the ethical issues involved. Each method has its advantages and its disadvantages. In any client/case, we ought to resist the temptation to light upon one ethical theory as “the best” and use it to answer all ethical problems that arise in practice. Such a method prescribes clarity where often clarity cannot be achieved. Appealing to one ethical theory as “the best” will guarantee a rank ordering of ethical values and principles, but in doing so, we will lose the ethical ambiguities inherent in social work practice and obtain clear answers at the cost of misunderstanding the complexities that some ethical problems present to us. In other words, one permanent feature of discussion about ethical issues is the underlying assumption that ethics is just a matter of personal belief. ”No one has the right to tell me what to do, and I have no right to tell anyone else what to do. Living by the creed of that assumption, however, would undermine professional ethics. In becoming professionals, we agree to abide by the code of ethics of our profession. But the codes do not assume that ethics is a matter of choice, they assume that sometimes there is right and sometimes a right. So, the purpose of this course is to discuss how to make ethical decision in delivering the welfare services, in order to let students to understand the ethical dilemma in the process of welfare services. |