Reflective Essay on Personal and Ethical Values in Social Work

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ABSTRACT
The following reflective essay focuses on three main questions which deal with the
personal values and their formation process, the impacts that they have as a social worker and
on a professional front. Another question that is being focused in the following reflective
essay is the AASW code of ethics and their guidance on the professional front and how do
these code of ethics match with my personal ethical qualities. The reflective journal then
heads to an analytical write up of a statement which decodes the reality of ethics in the
professional social work (Wood, 2019). This journal will help a person to dig deep inside
their mind and analyse the structure of one’s mind and then match them up with a set code of
ethical conduct and prove one worthy on the professional front.
INTRODUCTION
All professional works demand a different kind of personal conduct carried by
different people. These conducts can be social, economic or even ethical. Ethical conducts
define as a personal outlook of a person towards various conditions and the personality one
carries out socially. These set of codes define the true conduct of a person and it manipulates
the various decisions that are taken by the same ("History of Social Work, details", 2019).
A good professional social worker is not expected to be a person with a negative
outlook towards life and is expected to bring positive changes in the live of other people
while taking care of their own needs too. The long years of human evolution has come up
with various theories on ethical code of conducts that are valued on the professional front of
social work. This has been taken up under the Australian association of social workers code
of ethics and it defines a clear pattern of what is expected in the field of professional social
work. This is a good way of comparing your personal values with a set of pre-defined values
and improving for a better personality (Venuti, 2010).
Heading forward with the following reflective journal, we will find an analytical
framework on the theory of “Unconditional positive regard for the other is a core ethical
position for professional social work practice”. Critical analysis of a statement brings out the
personal views on the assessment of the figures around us which helps in developing a
personality which is more of a practical and a good analyser of conditions and situations

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around them. With a good analytical power, a person tends to take better decisions for
themselves as well the people around them.
PERSONAL VALUES
Personal values of a person play a very important role in the development of a
professional image in any field. Values of person does not just build a personality of a person
at a personal level but it’s also develops our thoughts, actions and words. Decisions that are
made in daily lives of person in their professional capacity are a projection of the values that
are imbibed in them. A person’s beliefs and values direct the path to a specific purpose. That
purpose acts as a satisfaction in a collective and an individual needs (Mathew, 2019).
In personal capacity, I think, my values make me stand differently amongst the crowd
and shape me into what I am helping towards achieving my goal in the workplace or in life.
These values are not made once you are a part of a professional organisation but they are the
ones that you are mould into.
Choosing social work as a profession has been an implication of values that I’ve
carried all my life. Once you know your values, it is not hard to make decisions of what you
exactly want in life. Personal values are the most important thing a person can do to
understand the uniqueness about oneself.
The unique ethics and values possessed by me are-
1) Loyalty- Loyalty is one of the most important values that can be carried in the field of
professionalism and it defines the intensity of your respect for the job that you’re
carrying. I am loyal towards the work that is assigned to me and I try to fulfil it with
utmost honesty and hard work. Social work is more than a professional job and it
requires a passionate justice that you provide to your work and I have a belief that my
passion for the same can define my vale of loyalty towards my work.
This value is imbibed in me because social work has been my dream since I was a
child and I have imagined myself providing justice to it.
2) Honesty- Another important value that is carried by me towards my work is honesty,
I cannot mock the kind of work I do and the hard work put in by me in my work
describes true and an honest behaviour. I like to be true about my strengths and
weaknesses so that it can help me learn better and transform into an honest social
worker. Honesty has been a gift of how my parents have raised me.