Doctor Rick Hoefer Presents Better CEUs for
Social Workers.
This is the “Ethics of Advocacy” by Doctor
Rick Hoefer from the School of Social Work,
University of Texas at Arlington, in Arlington,
Texas.
Hello, I’m Doctor Rick Hoefer.
My goal is to create better CEUs for social
workers.
You need the CEUs to keep your license, but
they shouldn’t be boring and irrelevant.
This online seminar on the Ethics of Advocacy
brings together your required ethics CEUs
with the social work skill of advocacy.
You’ll learn a lot about advocacy and ethics
in this CEU seminar.
These are some of the things you’ll get
out of this seminar: A clear understanding
of what advocacy is and how you can do it
ethically in your social work practice, following
the NASW Code of Ethics; a grounding in general
ethical decision-making; and practice in applying
ethical principles to three real-life advocacy
examples.
Even if you don’t see yourself as a full-time
advocate, this information can help you as
you do your daily work trying to make the
world a better place, whether you do it one
person at a time or at a more macro level.
This online workshop has several sections.
After the introduction is a fable about the
importance of working to solve problems at
a macro level.
Second is a discussion of what advocacy is,
what thirteen barriers stand in your way to
conduct advocacy and what five myths about
advocacy are.
Third, we look at why advocacy is important,
including ethical mandates and regulations
concerning advocacy.
Then we explore a nine-step ethical decision-making
process.
Next, we practice our decision making with
three case examples.
Finally, we wrap up.
Each section has its own video segment to
make it easy to watch in sequence and to let
you take a break between sections.
There is a pdf worksheep that you should print
out before you start the workshop.
It has blanks for you to fill in as the workshop
goes along to help you recall the key points
of the material and to think more deeply about
what you are learning.
While you probably can rush through this material
more quickly than the three hours you’ll
get credit for, you’ll get more out of it
if you fill in the worksheet and take time
to think about the material during the “stop
and think” moments.
If this seminar sounds interesting, go to
this website and sign up for it.
It is an online workshop, so you can register
and go through it any time you like.
http://www.uta.edu/ssw/pd/A_MASTER_DOCS/online_descriptions.html#ssw010
This has been a better CEUs for social workers
production by Doctor Rick Hoefer.
