Ethics and the Office: Swimming in Deep Waters
As social workers we are called to the helping profession because we are compelled to action, to seek justice, and to speak for those who have no voice.
This seminar is designed to evaluate the stereotypes of our profession, the power of personal self-care, and the longevity of our careers. We will examine the NASW Code of Ethics related to teamwork, collaboration, respect, resolving disputes with colleagues, and preserving the integrity of our profession. We will take a personal inventory of our strategies for resolving conflict and leave the training with a refreshed plan to positively impact our health, our families, our teams and our relationships.
As a result of this training, participants will be able to:
1. Describe the social identity of social workers and the helping profession.
2. Evaluate your own ability to provide personal self-care and how this impacts you, your team and your personal life.
3. Articulate the expectations for working with teams as identified in the NASW Code of Ethics.
Amber Residori, MSW, is the chair of the Department of Social Work and Criminal Justice at Olivet Nazarene University. She became certified as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in 2002. Her professional experience includes extensive work in residential treatment settings with youth and adolescents who have severe emotional and behavioral disorders. She particularly enjoys working comprehensively in developing and teaching others in the art of group therapy, milieu management, leadership, building and maintaining a healthy culture, and cutting-edge treatment interventions with difficult populations. As an administrator, she has had extensive experience in strategic planning, budgeting, employee recruitment, training and development.
Professor Residori enjoys opening new programs from the ground up and has accomplished this in a variety of settings, including: an outpatient practice for sexual offenders, a healthy-touch/anger management curriculum for elementary and high school settings, various new residential treatment programs, a transitional living program, and acute inpatient psychiatric hospital programs. She has also worked in a hospital setting in the neurological rehabilitation of head trauma and coma patients.
Professor Residori has presented on working with specialized populations in residential settings, team building, and psychiatric disorder for many local conferences and seminars, as well as at national level trainings.