Discusses how social workers' ethical decisions are influenced by professional roles, practice experiences, individualized perspectives, personal preferences, motivations, and attitudes. Posits that through reflective self-awareness, social workers can recognize their value preferences and recognize the ways in which these values unknowingly…

Environmental ethics provide a set of related values that help to limit or restrict individual freedom in order to save and protect nature. Examples of environmental ethics include land ethics, deep ecology, social ecology, Native or first peoples' worldviews, reverence for life, and conservation and management. Includes teaching strategies and a…

Home-career conflict may exist in varying degrees for both spouses in a dual-career couple. Home-career conflict exists when a dual-career wife values both homemaking and career and views some aspects of these two roles as incompatible. Home-career conflict results when a dual-career husband values his own career and that of his wife, but is…

The concept of health is defined as the state of body and mind which affords the individual the ability to strive toward his/her functional objectives and his/her culturally desired goals. The role of health education should be to impart knowledge which will assist individuals in making personal choices about lifestyles, values, and goals. (JN)

Examines two approaches to teaching moral decision making: values clarification and Kohlberg's cognitive-developmental approach. Suggests both rest on insufficient theory of choice. Greater dialogue is needed between those who develop theories of morality and choosing and those who develop techniques for preparing people to make sound moral…