Title: Social Work Values, Participation and Empowerment

With reference to social work practice, discuss of the following. The value base of social work practice Using a service user group of your choice to illustrate your answer. Social work value is a phrase that is difficult to define. Values can take a number of meanings depending on the usage and context of the setting. In everyday language values is used to refer and describe one or all of the following: religious, moral, political …

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