S W 313 Chapter 5: Chapter Five - Ethical Issues in Social Work Research
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Chapter five: ethical issues in social work research. Before researchers can implement studies that involve people, they confront questions about the ethics of their proposed investigations. Some ethical violations in social work can be subtle, ambiguous, and arguable. Ethics is typically associated with morality which deals with what is right and wrong. Nasw code of ethics: sometimes there may not be any right or wrong answers, there are ways to make things as ethical as possible such as: Obtain approval from the institutional review board. Carefully consider whether there are ethically superior alternatives: evaluation and research section of the nasw covers research ethics. No harm to the participants: no information that would embarrass them, endanger their home lives, friendships, jobs or otherwise should be revealed. Anonymity and confidentiality: the protection of participants" identities is the clearest concern in the protection of their interests and well-being in survey research, anonymity:
