2. Social workers should treat
colleagues with respect and should
represent accurately and fairly the
qualifications, views, and obligation
of colleagues.
3. Social workers should avoid unwarranted negative
criticism of cooling skin communications with clients or
with other professionals. Unwarranted negative
criticism may include demeaning comments that refers
to colleagues' level of competence or two individuals'
attributes such as race, ethnicity, national origin, color,
sex, sexual orientation, age,marital status, political
belief, religion, and mental or physical disability.
4. Social workers should respect confidential
information shared by colleagues in the
course of their professional relationships
and transactions. Social workers should
ensure that such colleaguesunderstand
social workers' obligations to respect
confidentiality and any exceptionds related
to it.
5. Social workers who are members of an
interdisciplinary team should participate in and
contribute to decisions that affect the well-being of
clients by drawing on the perspectives, values and
experiences of the social work profession.
Professional and ethical obligations of the
interdisciplinary team as a whole and of its individual
members should be clearly established.
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8. social workers should refer clients to other
professionals when the other professionals'
specialized knowledge or expertise is needed to
service clients fully.
social workers who refer client to other professionals
should disclose, with clients' concent, all pertinent
information to the new service providers.
social workers are prohibited from giving or receiving
payment for a referral services.
9. Social worker who function as supervisor or
educators should not engage in sexual activities
or contact with supervisees, students, trainees,
or other colleagues over whom they exercise
professional authority.
social workers should avoid engaging in sexual
relationships with colleagues when there is
potential for a conflict of interest.
10. social workers should not sexually
harassed supervises,students, trainees, or
colleagues. Sexual harassment includes
sexual advances, sexual solicitation,
requests for sexual favors, and other verbal
or physical conduct of a sexual nature.
11. social workers who believe that a social work
colleagues impairment interferes with practice
effectiveness and that colleague has not taken
adequate step to address the impairment should
assist the colleagues in taking remedial actions
or should take action through appropriate
channels established by employers, agencies,
NASW, licensing and regulatory bodies, and
other professional organization.
12. Social works who believe that the social work
colleague is incompetent and has not taken
adequate step to address the incompetence
should take action through appropriate channels
established by employers, agencies, and NASW,
licensing and regulatory bodies, and other
professional organizations or consult the
colleagues when feasible and assist the
colleagues in taking remedial actions.
13. Social workers who believed that a colleague has acted
unethically should seek resolution by discussing their
concern with the colleague when feasible and when
such discussion is likely to be productive.
When necessary, social workers who believed that a
colleague has acted unethically should take action
through appropriate formal channels (such as
contacting state licensing board or regulatory body,
and an NASW committee on inquiry, or other
professional ethics committees).
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Social workers should defend and
assist colleagues who are unjustly
charged with unethical conduct.
