미국 NASW 윤리강령의 변화과정 및 2018 개정의 함의

The process of change in the US NASW Code of Ethics and the Implications of the 2018 Revision

Ethical issues are the core principles of social welfare practice that have a great impact on social welfare identity, mission and practice as well as social welfare policy change in macro level. The National Social Workers Association (NASW) Code of Ethics, which was revised five times in the history of professional social welfare in the United States, reflects the social, economic, political, and philosophical circumstances of that time. in 2017, NASW approved a number of significant amendments to the NASW Code of Ethics. These changes went into effect January 1, 2018. The process of birth and change of the NASW Code of Ethics can be summarized in the following five themes. First, the process of change in the NASW Code of Ethics is the process and result of struggling to establish the professional identity of social workers with the historical emergence of social work as a profession. Second, the NASW Code of Ethics provides moral and ethical grounds for professional practice to social workers. Third, the NASW Code of Ethics is a legal domain that provides the basis for legal judgments relating to specific social work practice issues and practices. Fourth, the NASW Code of Ethics is a consensus of NASW on the political ideology that influenced the modeling, methodology and practice of social work. Fifth, the NASW Code of Ethics provides a remedy for the environment of a rapidly changing society. This study categorized the contents of the NASW s Code of Ethics and the changes of the period by primary data analysis and introduced the major contents. Based on the results of this study, practical implications for applying to social welfare in Korea were suggested.