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Social Work with vulnerable adults is becoming increasingly centred on a key piece of legislation: the Mental Capacity Act. The Act provides a framework for protecting the most vulnerable while allowing those who may lack capacity to have certain safeguards enshrined in law. However, while social workers must understand how legislation operates and the codes of practice that support it, they must also learn the skills to place the vulnerable person at the heart of the process.
Ethics and Vulnerability: Service users and Social Workers
Ethics and Vulnerability: Service users and Social Workers
Meeting Professional Standards
This chapter will help you to develop the following selected capabilities, to the appropriate level, from the social work Professional Capabilities Framework (see Appendix 1).
Professionalism
- Make proactive use of supervision to reflect critically on practice, explore different approaches to your work, support your development across the nine capabilities and understand the boundaries of professional accountability.
- Recognise the impact of self in interaction with others, making appropriate use of personal experience.
- Demonstrate workload management skills and develop the ability to prioritise.
- Recognise and balance your own personal/professional boundaries in response to changing and more complex contexts.
- Develop ways to promote well-being at work, identifying strategies to protect and promote your own well-being and ...
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