Ethical decision making is an integral part of social work practice on a daily basis social workers are faced with ethical dilemmas that require thoughtful reflection and critical thinking an ethical dilemma is a choice between two actions based on conflicting professional values both may be morally correct and professionally grounded. Ethical decisions for social work practice with the eight edition of ethical decisions for social work practice youll learn to recognize ethical issues and dilemmas reason carefully about. The national association of social workers nasw code of ethics is a set of guiding principles to assist social workers in making decisions in the best interests of their clients even if they might contradict what we might do in our personal lives these decisions are not always easy especially when two guiding principles come into conflict. Corpus id 152720575 ethical decisions for social work practice inproceedingsdolgoff1985ethicaldf titleethical decisions for social work practice authorralph dolgoff and d harrington and f m loewenberg year1985