Ethical Guidelines: Consent, Conflicts, Privacy, Relationships, Termination for Social Wor, Exams of Social Work

Download Ethical Guidelines: Consent, Conflicts, Privacy, Relationships, Termination for Social Wor and more Exams Social Work in PDF only on Docsity! NASW Code of Ethics The 6 Core Values of Social Work - Service Social Justice Dignity and worth of the person Importance of human relationships Integrity Competence NASW Code of Ethics Purpose #1 - The Code identifies core values on which social work's mission is based. NASW Code of Ethics Purpose #2 - The Code summarizes broad ethical principles that reflect the profession's core values and establishes a set of specific ethical standards that should be used to guide social work practice. NASW Code of Ethics Purpose #3 - The Code is designed to help social workers identify relevant considerations when professional obligations conflict or ethical uncertainties arise. NASW Code of Ethics Purpose #4 - The Code provides ethical standards to which the general public can hold the social work profession accountable. NASW Code of Ethics Purpose #5 - The Code socializes practitioners new to the field to social work's mission, values, ethical principles, and ethical standards. NASW Code of Ethics Purpose #6 - The Code articulates standards that the social work profession itself can use to assess whether social workers have engaged in unethical conduct. NASW has formal procedures to adjudicate ethics complaints filed against its members.* In subscribing to this Code, social workers are required to cooperate in its implementation, participate in NASW adjudication proceedings, and abide by any NASW disciplinary rulings or sanctions based on it. What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Service? - Ethical Principle: Social workers' primary goal is to help people in need and to address social problems. Social workers elevate service to others above self-interest. Social workers draw on their knowledge, values, and skills to help people in need and to address social problems. Social workers are encouraged to volunteer some portion of their professional skills with no expectation of significant financial return (pro bono service). What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Social Justice? - Ethical Principle: Social workers challenge social injustice. Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people. Social workers' social change efforts are focused primarily on issues of poverty, unemployment, discrimination, and other forms of social injustice. These activities seek to promote sensitivity to and knowledge about oppression and cultural and ethnic diversity. Social workers strive to ensure access to needed information, services, and resources; equality of opportunity; and meaningful participation in decision making for all people. What is the Ethical Principle for the Value of Dignity and Worth of the Person? - Ethical Principle: Social workers respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person. Social workers' primary responsibility is to promote the well-being of clients. In general, clients' interests are primary. However, social workers' responsibility to the larger society or specific legal obligations may on limited occasions supersede the loyalty owed clients, and clients should be so advised. (Examples include when a social worker is required by law to report that a client has abused a child or has threatened to harm self or others.) Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Self-Determination - Social workers respect and promote the right of clients to self-determination and assist clients in their efforts to identify and clarify their goals. Social workers may limit clients' right to self- determination when, in the social workers' professional judgment, clients' actions or potential actions pose a serious, foreseeable, and imminent risk to themselves or others. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Informed Consent (A & B) - a) Social workers should provide services to clients only in the context of a professional relationship based, when appropriate, on valid informed consent. Social workers should use clear and understandable language to inform clients of the purpose of the services, risks related to the services, limits to services because of the requirements of a third-party payer, relevant costs, reasonable alternatives, clients' right to refuse or withdraw consent, and the time frame covered by the consent. Social workers should provide clients with an opportunity to ask questions. (b) In instances when clients are not literate or have difficulty understanding the primary language used in the practice setting, social workers should take steps to ensure clients' comprehension. This may include providing clients with a detailed verbal explanation or arranging for a qualified interpreter or translator whenever possible. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Informed Consent (C & D) - (c) In instances when clients lack the capacity to provide informed consent, social workers should protect clients' interests by seeking permission from an appropriate third party, informing clients consistent with the clients' level of understanding. In such instances social workers should seek to ensure that the third party acts in a manner consistent with clients' wishes and interests. Social workers should take reasonable steps to enhance such clients' ability to give informed consent. (d) In instances when clients are receiving services involuntarily, social workers should provide information about the nature and extent of services and about the extent of clients' right to refuse service. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Informed Consent (E & F) - (e) Social workers who provide services via electronic media (such as computer, telephone, radio, and television) should inform recipients of the limitations and risks associated with such services. (f) Social workers should obtain clients' informed consent before audiotaping or videotaping clients or permitting observation of services to clients by a third party. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Competence - (a) Social workers should provide services and represent themselves as competent only within the boundaries of their education, training, license, certification, consultation received, supervised experience, or other relevant professional experience. (b) Social workers should provide services in substantive areas or use intervention techniques or approaches that are new to them only after engaging in appropriate study, training, consultation, and supervision from people who are competent in those interventions or techniques. (c) When generally recognized standards do not exist with respect to an emerging area of practice, social workers should exercise careful judgment and take responsible steps (including appropriate education, research, training, consultation, and supervision) to ensure the competence of their work and to protect clients from harm. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Cultural Competence and Social Diversity - (a) Social workers should understand culture and its function in human behavior and society, recognizing the strengths that exist in all cultures. (b) Social workers should have a knowledge base of their clients' cultures and be able to demonstrate competence in the provision of services that are sensitive to clients' cultures and to differences among people and cultural groups. (c) Social workers should obtain education about and seek to understand the nature of social diversity and oppression with respect to race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, and mental or physical disability. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Conflicts of Interest (A) - (a) Social workers should be alert to and avoid conflicts of interest that interfere with the exercise of professional discretion and impartial judgment. Social workers should inform clients when a real or potential conflict of interest arises and take reasonable steps to resolve the issue in a manner that makes the clients' interests primary and protects clients' interests to the greatest extent possible. In some cases, protecting clients' interests may require termination of the professional relationship with proper referral of the client. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Conflicts of Interest (B) - (b) Social workers should not take unfair advantage of any professional relationship or exploit others to further their personal, religious, political, or business interests. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Conflicts of Interest (C) - (c) Social workers should not engage in dual or multiple relationships with clients or former clients in which there is a risk of exploitation or potential harm to the client. In instances when dual or multiple relationships are unavoidable, social workers should take steps to protect clients and are Privacy and Confidentiality (G) - Social workers should inform clients involved in family, couples, marital, or group counseling of the social worker's, employer's, and agency's policy concerning the social worker's disclosure of confidential information among the parties involved in the counseling. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (H) - Social workers should not disclose confidential information to third-party payers unless clients have authorized such disclosure. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (I) - Social workers should not discuss confidential information in any setting unless privacy can be ensured. Social workers should not discuss confidential information in public or semi-public areas such as hallways, waiting rooms, elevators, and restaurants. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (J) - Social workers should protect the confidentiality of clients during legal proceedings to the extent permitted by law. When a court of law or other legally authorized body orders social workers to disclose confidential or privileged information without a client's consent and such disclosure could cause harm to the client, social workers should request that the court withdraw the order or limit the order as narrowly as possible or maintain the records under seal, unavailable for public inspection. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (K) - Social workers should protect the confidentiality of clients when responding to requests from members of the media. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (L) - Social workers should protect the confidentiality of clients' written and electronic records and other sensitive information. Social workers should take reasonable steps to ensure that clients' records are stored in a secure location and that clients' records are not available to others who are not authorized to have access. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (M) - Social workers should take precautions to ensure and maintain the confidentiality of information transmitted to other parties through the use of computers, electronic mail, facsimile machines, telephones and telephone answering machines, and other electronic or computer technology. Disclosure of identifying information should be avoided whenever possible. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (N) - Social workers should transfer or dispose of clients' records in a manner that protects clients' confidentiality and is consistent with state statutes governing records and social work licensure. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (O) - Social workers should take reasonable precautions to protect client confidentiality in the event of the social worker's termination of practice, incapacitation, or death. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (P) - Social workers should not disclose identifying information when discussing clients for teaching or training purposes unless the client has consented to disclosure of confidential information. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (Q) - Social workers should not disclose identifying information when discussing clients with consultants unless the client has consented to disclosure of confidential information or there is a compelling need for such disclosure. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Privacy and Confidentiality (R) - Social workers should protect the confidentiality of deceased clients consistent with the preceding standards. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Access to Records - (a) Social workers should provide clients with reasonable access to records concerning the clients. Social workers who are concerned that clients' access to their records could cause serious misunderstanding or harm to the client should provide assistance in interpreting the records and consultation with the client regarding the records. Social workers should limit clients' access to their records, or portions of their records, only in exceptional circumstances when there is compelling evidence that such access would cause serious harm to the client. Both clients' requests and the rationale for withholding some or all of the record should be documented in clients' files. (b) When providing clients with access to their records, social workers should take steps to protect the confidentiality of other individuals identified or discussed in such records. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients clients. Social workers should explore and may participate in bartering only in very limited circumstances when it can be demonstrated that such arrangements are an accepted practice among professionals in the local community, considered to be essential for the provision of services, negotiated without coercion, and entered into at the client's initiative and with the client's informed consent. Social workers who accept goods or services from clients as payment for professional services assume the full burden of demonstrating that this arrangement will not be detrimental to the client or the professional relationship. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Payment for Services (C) - Social workers should not solicit a private fee or other remuneration for providing services to clients who are entitled to such available services through the social workers' employer or agency. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Clients Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity - When social workers act on behalf of clients who lack the capacity to make informed decisions, social workers should take reasonable steps to safeguard the interests and rights of those clients. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Interruption of Services - Social workers should make reasonable efforts to ensure continuity of services in the event that services are interrupted by factors such as unavailability, relocation, illness, disability, or death. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Termination of Services (A) - Social workers should terminate services to clients and professional relationships with them when such services and relationships are no longer required or no longer serve the clients' needs or interests. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Termination of Services (B) - Social workers should take reasonable steps to avoid abandoning clients who are still in need of services. Social workers should withdraw services precipitously only under unusual circumstances, giving careful consideration to all factors in the situation and taking care to minimize possible adverse effects. Social workers should assist in making appropriate arrangements for continuation of services when necessary. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Termination of Services (C) - Social workers in fee-for-service settings may terminate services to clients who are not paying an overdue balance if the financial contractual arrangements have been made clear to the client, if the client does not pose an imminent danger to self or others, and if the clinical and other consequences of the current nonpayment have been addressed and discussed with the client. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Termination of Services (D) - Social workers should not terminate services to pursue a social, financial, or sexual relationship with a client. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Termination of Services (E) - Social workers who anticipate the termination or interruption of services to clients should notify clients promptly and seek the transfer, referral, or continuation of services in relation to the clients' needs and preferences. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Clients Termination of Services (F) - Social workers who are leaving an employment setting should inform clients of appropriate options for the continuation of services and of the benefits and risks of the options. Name the 11 ways social workers are ethically responsible to their colleagues - 1. Respect 2. Confidentiality 3. Interdisciplinary Collaboration 4. Disputes Involving Colleagues 5. Consultation 6. Referral for Services 7. Sexual Relationships 8. Sexual Harassment 9. Impairment of Colleagues 10. Incompetence of Colleagues 11. Unethical Conduct of Colleagues Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Respect (A) - Social workers should treat colleagues with respect and should represent accurately and fairly the qualifications, views, and obligations of colleagues. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Respect (B) - Social workers should avoid unwarranted negative criticism of colleagues in communications with clients or with other professionals. Unwarranted negative criticism may include demeaning comments that refer to colleagues' level of competence or to individuals' attributes such as race, Referral for Services (A) - Social workers should refer clients to other professionals when the other professionals' specialized knowledge or expertise is needed to serve clients fully or when social workers believe that they are not being effective or making reasonable progress with clients and that additional service is required. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Referral for Services (B) - Social workers who refer clients to other professionals should take appropriate steps to facilitate an orderly transfer of responsibility. Social workers who refer clients to other professionals should disclose, with clients' consent, all pertinent information to the new service providers. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Referral for Services (C) - Social workers are prohibited from giving or receiving payment for a referral when no professional service is provided by the referring social worker. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Sexual Relationships (A) - Social workers who function as supervisors or educators should not engage in sexual activities or contact with supervisees, students, trainees, or other colleagues over whom they exercise professional authority. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Sexual Relationships (B) - Social workers should avoid engaging in sexual relationships with colleagues when there is potential for a conflict of interest. Social workers who become involved in, or anticipate becoming involved in, a sexual relationship with a colleague have a duty to transfer professional responsibilities, when necessary, to avoid a conflict of interest. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Sexual Harassment - Social workers should not sexually harass supervisees, students, trainees, or colleagues. Sexual harassment includes sexual advances, sexual solicitation, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Impairment of Colleagues (A) - Social workers who have direct knowledge of a social work colleague's impairment that is due to personal problems, psycho-social distress, substance abuse, or mental health difficulties and that interferes with practice effectiveness should consult with that colleague when feasible and assist the colleague in taking remedial action. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Impairment of Colleagues (B) - Social workers who believe that a social work colleague's impairment interferes with practice effectiveness and that the colleague has not taken adequate steps to address the impairment should take action through appropriate channels established by employers, agencies, NASW, licensing and regulatory bodies, and other professional organizations. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Incompetence of Colleagues (A) - Social workers who have direct knowledge of a social work colleague's incompetence should consult with that colleague when feasible and assist the colleague in taking remedial action. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Incompetence of Colleagues (B) - Social workers who believe that a social work colleague is incompetent and has not taken adequate steps to address the incompetence should take action through appropriate channels established by employers, agencies, NASW, licensing and regulatory bodies, and other professional organizations. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Unethical Conduct of Colleagues (A) - Social workers should take adequate measures to discourage, prevent, expose, and correct the unethical conduct of colleagues. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Unethical Conduct of Colleagues (B) - Social workers should be knowledgeable about established policies and procedures for handling concerns about colleagues' unethical behavior. Social workers should be familiar with national, state, and local procedures for handling ethics complaints. These include policies and procedures created by NASW, licensing and regulatory bodies, employers, agencies, and other professional organizations. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibility to Colleagues Unethical Conduct of Colleagues (C) - Social workers who believe that a colleague has acted unethically should seek resolution by discussing their concerns with the colleague when feasible and when such discussion is likely to be productive. Social workers who function as educators or field instructors for students should not engage in any dual or multiple relationships with students in which there is a risk of exploitation or potential harm to the student. Social work educators and field instructors are responsible for setting clear, appropriate, and culturally sensitive boundaries. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Performance Evaluation - Social workers who have responsibility for evaluating the performance of others should fulfill such responsibility in a fair and considerate manner and on the basis of clearly stated criteria. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Client Records (A) - Social workers should take reasonable steps to ensure that documentation in records is accurate and reflects the services provided. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Client Records (B) - Social workers should include sufficient and timely documentation in records to facilitate the delivery of services and to ensure continuity of services provided to clients in the future. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Client Records (C) - Social workers' documentation should protect clients' privacy to the extent that is possible and appropriate and should include only information that is directly relevant to the delivery of services. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Client Records (D) - Social workers should store records following the termination of services to ensure reasonable future access. Records should be maintained for the number of years required by state statutes or relevant contracts. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Billing - Social workers should establish and maintain billing practices that accurately reflect the nature and extent of services provided and that identify who provided the service in the practice setting. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Client Transfer (A) - When an individual who is receiving services from another agency or colleague contacts a social worker for services, the social worker should carefully consider the client's needs before agreeing to provide services. To minimize possible confusion and conflict, social workers should discuss with potential clients the nature of the clients' current relationship with other service providers and the implications, including possible benefits or risks, of entering into a relationship with a new service provider. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Client Transfer (B) - If a new client has been served by another agency or colleague, social workers should discuss with the client whether consultation with the previous service provider is in the client's best interest. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Administration (A) - Social work administrators should advocate within and outside their agencies for adequate resources to meet clients' needs. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Administration (B) - Social workers should advocate for resource allocation procedures that are open and fair. When not all clients' needs can be met, an allocation procedure should be developed that is nondiscriminatory and based on appropriate and consistently applied principles. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Administration (C) - Social workers who are administrators should take reasonable steps to ensure that adequate agency or organizational resources are available to provide appropriate staff supervision. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Administration (D) - Social work administrators should take reasonable steps to ensure that the working environment for which they are responsible is consistent with and encourages compliance with the NASW Code of Ethics. Social work administrators should take reasonable steps to eliminate any conditions in their organizations that violate, interfere with, or discourage compliance with the Code. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Continuing Education and Staff Development - Social work administrators and supervisors should take reasonable steps to provide or arrange for continuing education and staff development for all staff for whom they are responsible. Continuing education and staff development should address current knowledge and emerging developments related to social work practice and ethics. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities in Practice Settings Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Competence (B) - Social workers should strive to become and remain proficient in professional practice and the performance of professional functions. Social workers should critically examine and keep current with emerging knowledge relevant to social work. Social workers should routinely review the professional literature and participate in continuing education relevant to social work practice and social work ethics. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Competence (C) - Social workers should base practice on recognized knowledge, including empirically based knowledge, relevant to social work and social work ethics. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Discrimination - Social workers should not practice, condone, facilitate, or collaborate with any form of discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, political belief, religion, immigration status, or mental or physical disability. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Private Conduct - Social workers should not permit their private conduct to interfere with their ability to fulfill their professional responsibilities. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Dishonesty, Fraud, and Deception - Social workers should not participate in, condone, or be associated with dishonesty, fraud, or deception. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Impairment (A) - Social workers should not allow their own personal problems, psycho-social distress, legal problems, substance abuse, or mental health difficulties to interfere with their professional judgment and performance or to jeopardize the best interests of people for whom they have a professional responsibility. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Impairment (B) - Social workers whose personal problems, psychosocial distress, legal problems, substance abuse, or mental health difficulties interfere with their professional judgment and performance should immediately seek consultation and take appropriate remedial action by seeking professional help, making adjustments in workload, terminating practice, or taking any other steps necessary to protect clients and others. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Misrepresentation (A) - Social workers should make clear distinctions between statements made and actions engaged in as a private individual and as a representative of the social work profession, a professional social work organization, or the social worker's employing agency. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Misrepresentation (B) - Social workers who speak on behalf of professional social work organizations should accurately represent the official and authorized positions of the organizations. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Misrepresentation (C) - Social workers should ensure that their representations to clients, agencies, and the public of professional qualifications, credentials, education, competence, affiliations, services provided, or results to be achieved are accurate. Social workers should claim only those relevant professional credentials they actually possess and take steps to correct any inaccuracies or misrepresentations of their credentials by others. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Solicitations (A) - Social workers should not engage in uninvited solicitation of potential clients who, because of their circumstances, are vulnerable to undue influence, manipulation, or coercion. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Solicitations (B) - Social workers should not engage in solicitation of testimonial endorsements (including solicitation of consent to use a client's prior statement as a testimonial endorsement) from current clients or from other people who, because of their particular circumstances, are vulnerable to undue influence. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Acknowledging Credit (A) - Social workers should take responsibility and credit, including authorship credit, only for work they have actually performed and to which they have contributed. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities as Professionals Acknowledging Credit (B) - Evaluation and Research (E) - Social workers engaged in evaluation or research should obtain voluntary and written informed consent from participants, when appropriate, without any implied or actual deprivation or penalty for refusal to participate; without undue inducement to participate; and with due regard for participants' well-being, privacy, and dignity. Informed consent should include information about the nature, extent, and duration of the participation requested and disclosure of the risks and benefits of participation in the research. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (F) - When evaluation or research participants are incapable of giving informed consent, social workers should provide an appropriate explanation to the participants, obtain the participants' assent to the extent they are able, and obtain written consent from an appropriate proxy. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (G) - Social workers should never design or conduct evaluation or research that does not use consent procedures, such as certain forms of naturalistic observation and archival research, unless rigorous and responsible review of the research has found it to be justified because of its prospective scientific, educational, or applied value and unless equally effective alternative procedures that do not involve waiver of consent are not feasible. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (H) - Social workers should inform participants of their right to withdraw from evaluation and research at any time without penalty. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (I) - Social workers should take appropriate steps to ensure that participants in evaluation and research have access to appropriate supportive services. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (J) - Social workers engaged in evaluation or research should protect participants from unwarranted physical or mental distress, harm, danger, or deprivation. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (K) - Social workers engaged in the evaluation of services should discuss collected information only for professional purposes and only with people professionally concerned with this information. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (L) - Social workers engaged in evaluation or research should ensure the anonymity or confidentiality of participants and of the data obtained from them. Social workers should inform participants of any limits of confidentiality, the measures that will be taken to ensure confidentiality, and when any records containing research data will be destroyed. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (M) - Social workers who report evaluation and research results should protect participants' confidentiality by omitting identifying information unless proper consent has been obtained authorizing disclosure. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (N) - Social workers should report evaluation and research findings accurately. They should not fabricate or falsify results and should take steps to correct any errors later found in published data using standard publication methods. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (O) - Social workers engaged in evaluation or research should be alert to and avoid conflicts of interest and dual relationships with participants, should inform participants when a real or potential conflict of interest arises, and should take steps to resolve the issue in a manner that makes participants' interests primary. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Social Work Profession Evaluation and Research (P) - Social workers should educate themselves, their students, and their colleagues about responsible research practices. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Broader Society Social Welfare - Social workers should promote the general welfare of society, from local to global levels, and the development of people, their communities, and their environments. Social workers should advocate for living conditions conducive to the fulfillment of basic human needs and should promote social, economic, political, and cultural values and institutions that are compatible with the realization of social justice. Social Workers' Ethical Responsibilities to the Broader Society Public Participation -