Description: Social care professionals frequently find themselves facing a dilemma in which they have to make difficult and important decisions that affect the lives of service users profoundly. An Introduction to Personal and Professional Ethics is a thought provoking and accessible guide for practitioners working as individuals and within multi-professional teams, to help them to ask the ethical questions that will lead to a better informed decision.

Choices made by social care professionals are influenced by many different and sometimes conflicting ethical perspectives and systems of social rules and priorities; these are defined by law, professional codes of conduct and practical efficiency. Richard Rowson outlines the range of moral positions that inform our decisions and places them within a wider, multi-cultural context of moral issues. He encourages the reader to consider the basis for moral choices, their relationship with religious ideas and the interaction of reason and emotion in their use.

In so doing he enables practitioners to think through their own ethical ideas and make morally responsible decisions, and to appreciate and accommodate the moral outlook and choices of people from a variety of backgrounds. This is an invaluable guide to those seeking to inform, coordinate and refine their critical choices in social work, probation, health care and the police force.

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