Social Work Values And Ethics

“Social Work Value &Ethics” PDA was designed for social worker majors and pre social worker majors. Values and Ethics are what social workers live by it entails our code of ethics. The Code of Ethics tells us as social workers how we should act and behave. As social workers it is very important that we practice by these values and ethics. I like this PDA for the reason that many social workers today act as if they do not know anything about values or ethics. I think all social workers should attend a PDA like this. The social work department has now enforced that all upcoming social work majors are require to take the class which is something that should have been enforced. Value and ethics are what holds the profession together. As a future
Trauma according to the DSM 4 it is defined as a person‘s response involves intense fear, horror, and helplessness and extreme stress that over whelms a person capacity to cope. Trauma has many forms of it which can be complex, historic, and psychological, and sanctuary. The effects of Trauma on the body can be physical, emotional, behavioral, relational cognitive and neurobiological and examples of those can be isolation, memory lapse, fight or flight, flashback and difficult sleeping. The statistics that were provided where about two years old but I am positive they have increased since then . In the U.S approximately 1.5 million women and 834,700 men are raped by an intimate partner. Ninety percent of the mental health clients are expose to trauma which is sad. There are three R’s of trauma informed care realizing, recognition ,and respondence. Learning about trauma was very informative because as social worker I will be coming contact with people who experience trauma therefore I need to use the knowledge and skills that I know when applying them in
The goal of this PDA was to help us work smart instead of working hard.At some point in our lives we get burnt out from being over work which cause stress and other health- related isssues.We discuss a quote “98% of what I worry about never happens.”There was three types of stress we talked about daily stress,chronic stress and the what-if worries.Cognitive cycle our beliefs affect our behaviors that lead to an outcome.Working smart is something we should all aim to do not just at work but in any task we have to complete. In social work we use CBT a