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“‘Relationships are foundational to social work, and face to face communication is critically important. The pandemic has thrown that up in the air,’ says Dr. Weinberg. ‘The issues range from some social workers not having access to proper PPE or to the technology for online communication, to issues of confidentiality and lack of non-verbal cues and information, which is so important.’ As an example, she describes social workers trying to conduct online home visits in domestic violence situations where they found it impossible to evaluate whether the perpetrator was in the home, and therefore whether the victims could speak freely to get the support they needed.”

“The report identified six key themes relating to social workers’ ethical challenges:

Creating and maintaining trusting, honest and empathic relationships via phone or internet with due regard to privacy and confidentiality, or in person with protective equipment.

Prioritizing service user needs and demands, which are greater and different due to the pandemic, when resources are stretched or unavailable and full assessments often not possible.

Balancing service user rights, needs and risks against personal risk to social workers and others, in order to provide services as well as possible.

Deciding whether to follow national and organisational policies, procedures or guidance (existing or new) or to use professional discretion in circumstances where the policies seem inappropriate, confused or lacking.

Acknowledging and handling emotions, fatigue and the need for self- care, when working in unsafe and stressful circumstances.

Using the lessons learned from working during the pandemic to rethink social work in the future.”

Dalhousie News, November 3, 2020: “Global Report Outlines Ethical Challenges for Social Workers Resulting from COVID-19,” by Dawn Morrison 

The Migrant Crisis: Rediscovering the Politics of Hope.

More than a million migrants and refugees crossed into Europe in 2015 alone. This has been the largest movement of people fleeing persecution in modern European history. The political and humanitarian crisis we have been witnessing is fuelled by conflicts in Northern and Eastern Africa, in the...

https://www.socialworkhelper.com/2017/02/01/european-social-work-migrant-crisis-rediscovering-politics-hope/?Social+Work+Helper

Global Social Work Agenda and Social Development

Recently, I had chance to watch “The Inequality Movie” narrated by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich where it outlines how the United States has one of the poorest distribution of wealth in the world. This was a great movie highlighting the need for change on the legislative a...

https://www.socialworkhelper.com/2016/02/09/global-social-work-agenda-social-development/?Social+Work+Helper

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