Ethical dilemmas of social workers in Spain

Abstract

This article examines the main ethical dilemmas that Spanish social workers face in professional practice and explores the methodologies that they use to overcome such dilemmas. To achieve our aim, we present some of the results obtained in the research project titled “Ethical dilemmas in social intervention. The perspective of Spanish social workers” (FFI2008-05546). This is an R&D&I project that is being conducted in Spain by the research group EFIMEC (Ética, Filosofía y Metodología de la ciencia) at the Universidad Pública de Navarra (Spain) and financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. We also examine the general debate about ethical dilemmas in social work and attempt to frame our findings in the context of the discussion.