The development of ethical skills for students of social work at Spanish universities

Cuenca Silvestre, Mercedes; Parra Ramajo, Belen; Pastor Seller, Enrique

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The development of ethical skills for students of social work at Spanish universities

dc.contributor.author	Cuenca Silvestre, Mercedes
dc.contributor.author	Parra Ramajo, Belen
dc.contributor.author	Pastor Seller, Enrique
dc.contributor.department	Trabajo Social y Servicios Sociales
dc.contributor.other	Facultad de Trabajo Social
dc.date.accessioned	2026-01-16T07:30:47Z
dc.date.available	2026-01-16T07:30:47Z
dc.date.copyright	© 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
dc.date.issued	2024-11-21
dc.description.abstract	This article presents the results from a study that analyzed the length,content, and emphasis of ethics education taught in Social Workdegrees at Spanish universities. The universities that offer this degreewere identified (37), and the ethics courses in these course programswere analyzed using the corresponding course guides (27) and thespecific skills identified in those course guides (175). Our results identified14 specific skills. From a content analysis, it is evident that theethics education that future social workers receive appears to beinadequate with respect to the challenges they will face in differentareas of intervention and professional work. Ethics courses currentlytaught at Spanish universities seems inadequate to provide sufficientabilities and professional skills for the ethical practice of Social Work.This study identified the contribution of ethics education to the field ofSocial Work in the current context of complexity and superdiversity.
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dc.identifier.citation	Cuenca Silvestre, M., Parra Ramajo, B., & Pastor Seller, E. (2025). The development of ethical skills for students of social work at Spanish universities. Social Work Education, 44(7), 1705–1719. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2024.2421406
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2024.2421406
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/187609
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Taylor & Francis Group
dc.relation	Sin financiación externa a la Universidad
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02615479.2024.2421406
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dc.subject	Ethics in social work
dc.subject	Teaching innovation
dc.subject	Ethical skills
dc.subject	Ethical education
dc.subject	Higher learning
dc.subject.ods	Objetivo 4: Educación
dc.title	The development of ethical skills for students of social work at Spanish universities
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