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- Title
Rethinking Client Self-determination in Social Work: A Christian Perspective as a Philosophical Foundation for Client Choice.
- Authors
Wolfer, Terry A.; Hodge, David R.; Steele, Janessa
- Abstract
Currently, the concept of client self-determination has near unquestioned support within the social work profession. However, this support for client self-determination tends to overlook some perennial tensions and has not yet taken seriously some emerging problems. To explore these issues, this paper summarizes several major justifications for client self-determination and describes several factors that challenge or undermine it. Against this background, the paper considers limitations of the concept from a Christian perspective and provides an alternate basis for respecting decisions by people, including social work clients. To construct this foundation, we draw on several streams of thought within the Christian tradition: critique of self-determination as a sacred concept, the paradoxical nature of our relationships with God, and reckoning with human vulnerability
- Subjects
SOCIAL services &; religion; SOCIOLOGY of work; SOCIAL workers; PROFESSIONALISM; PROFESSIONAL ethics; CHRISTIANITY
- Publication
Social Work & Christianity, 2018, Vol 45, Issue 2, p3
- ISSN
0737-5778
- Publication type
Article