Explain how social work ethical values relate to advocacy

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Assignment:

Respond to two colleagues:

Explain how social work ethical values relate to advocacy.
Describe how you might make decisions about when and where to engage in advocacy based on the risks your colleague identified.
Expand on your colleague's posting. Please respond and label each discussion with response

Support your post with examples from the course text and any other resources used to respond to this Discussion. Demonstrate that you have completed the required readings, understand the material, and are able to apply the concepts. Include a full reference of resources at the bottom of the post.

Resources

Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Jr., G.H. H. (2017). Empowerment Series: Understanding Generalist Practice (8th ed.). Cengage Learning US.

Discussion 1

Advocacy that I have been involved in working in a long-term care facility is taking actions that ensure patient rights, needs and their preferences are respected. Advocating for standards of care that are high and holding other accountable that are providing care. Helping others focus on the needs of individuals through communication and validating concerns.

In this week's resources learning about advocacy through entitlement was helpful in my current role. Knowing the source of the entitlement may help us decide what form our advocacy will take (Kirst-Ashman & Hull,2018). Learning about the entitlements of the patients at the current facility I am working is helping in learning where the advocacy focus can be effective. Learning about these areas that policies protect patients through giving employees' knowledge of these entitlements.

Understanding potential risks for social workers that serve as an advocate can help reflect on their own current position and self. Realizing there is potential to be misunderstood through resources that are provided or that others that you are working with professional don't understand them through possible cultural differences. Another risk might be not able to get the resources to the client which can affect the trust between client and social worker.

Discussion 2

"Case advocacy, as the name implies, refers to activity on behalf of a single case. It is usually employed in situations where the individual is in conflict with an organization, perhaps over benefits that have been denied." (Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull, G. H., Jr. (2018) Case advocacy has been my main engagement for this term due to wanting/needing to advocate for IDD individuals that cannot advocate for themselves. While their benefits may not be denied, this population are easily denied through being able to obtain employment, services, or even doctor appointments. It has been my job to advocate for them for what they need/deserve, regardless of what the situation is.

The major concept is to link persons to services that can better their life and help them succeed in bettering their life. "Resources include people, agencies, and organizations that may help you and the client." (Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull, G. H., Jr. (2018) The more we as workers learn about our local resources the more we can empower our clients to link them to services they may not have known they had access to or grant them access to services they wouldn't otherwise be able to use.

"One purpose of advocacy is to help clients attain services or benefits that they are entitled to but cannot obtain. The nature of this task is such advocacy is more likely to involve confrontation than are most other interventions." (Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull, G. H., Jr. (2018) Confrontation is the major potential risk when it comes to advocating for different populations or even for select populations. One instance that comes to mind is when advocating for a person of color for government services such as ebt, tanf, etc could cause another population who thinks negatively and thinks that population does not deserve said services. Thus, causing conflict towards the social worker who is trying to ensure all humans are treated fairly and everyone deserves to be comfortable/safe.

References

Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Hull, G. H., Jr. (2018). Empowerment series: Understanding generalist practice (8th ed.). CENGAGE Learning.

Chapter, "Advocacy" (pp. 544-570)

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