Should Social Work Clients Have the Right to Effective Treatment?.

Myers, Laura L.; Thyer, Bruce A.

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Publication Date: 1997

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Should Social Work Clients Have the Right to Effective Treatment?

Myers, Laura L.; Thyer, Bruce A.

Social Work, v42 n3 p288-98 May 1997

Considers some of the issues involved in the debate over codes of ethics regarding the right to effective treatment. Offers suggestions for how ethical codes could be modified to include clients' right to receive effective treatment and social workers' obligation to be educated about and to provide such treatment. (RJM)

Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Codes of Ethics, Counseling Effectiveness, Counselor Role, Ethics, Legal Responsibility, Social Workers, Therapeutic Environment

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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