Exam Prep Help: Eye on Ethics

If you've searched around the web for answers to just about any tricky social work ethics question, than you've probably encountered Frederic Reamer's Eye on Ethics column in Social Work Today magazine. Reamer, author of the book Social Work Values and Ethics, and many others hands out his ethics wisdom for free in the online column. Happily for social work exam studiers, many of the columns contain vignettes about social workers faced with grey-area decisions, not at all unlike the ones that show up on the exam. Below, a sample of recent columns. Dig in--can't hurt. You're very likely to learn something you'll use on the exam, in practice, or both. Enjoy!

• Elastic Boundaries in Social Work — Proceed With Caution
• The Evolution of Social Work Ethics
• The Concept of Standard of Care
• Ethics Consultation: The Wisdom of Crowds
• Ethics Education in Social Work — Transformation of a Profession