Social Work Fundamentals

2. Social workers strive to maintain and increase their professional ______________ and skill.
3. Treating people unfavourably or holding negative or prejudicial attitudes based on discernable differences or stereotypes
6. A cornerstone of professional social work relationships is ____________________ with respect to all matters associated with professional services to clients.
9. Under the Criminal Code of Canada, the age of consent is held to be over the age of ____________ years; age in the context of the criminal code frequently refers to capacity to consent to sexual relations.
10. Social workers promote individual _____________ and pursuit of individual goals, as well as the development of a just society.

1. Social workers uphold each person’s right to _____________ consistent with that person’s capacity and with the rights of others.
4. Social workers advocate for equal treatment and protection under the law and challenge ______________, especially injustices that affect the vulnerable and disadvantaged.
5. The ability to understand information relevant to a decision and to appreciate the reasonably foreseeable consequences of choosing to act or not to act.
7. Social workers respect the client’s right to make choices based on voluntary, _______________________ consent.
8. Social workers demonstrate ____________ with respect to limits to confidentiality that apply to their professional practice by clearly communicating these limitations to clients early in their relationship.