Timely and essential, Ethics and Risk Management in Online and Distance Social Work identifies pertinent ethical challenges and ethically related risk-management issues that social workers should consider when using digital…

A collection of essays on the ethical issues created by the AIDS crisis. It addresses controversial issues related to the tension between civil rights and public health, mandatory HIV testing…

Using recent cases, the author describes a wide variety of problems related to privacy and confidentiality, improper treatment and delivery of services, impaired practitioners, supervision, consultation and referral, fraud and…

An introduction to professional values and ethics in social work, this work also considers the evolution of social work standards throughout the profession’s history. It includes: discussion of the moral…

An inside look at parole board decision making and its consequences.

Social work rests on complex philosophical assumptions that should be central to practice, education, and training. Frederic G. Reamer explores how these issues bear on the purpose, methods, and perspectives…

This title begins with Americans’ changing attitudes toward challenging teens and the programmes to handle this population. It then summarizes reputable organizations and provides brief descriptions of typical services.