Watch the following videos and read the blog on how to use specific critical thinking questions to analyze a worldview:
Watch the video: What Is Worldview?
Watch the video: What’s Your Worldview?
Read the blog How Should We Analyze a Worldview, which contains critical thinking questions useful in analyzing a worldview.
Addressing the following questions or prompts:
Based on the course material provided, explain what a worldview is and why it is important for and individual to understand as a social worker.
Discuss how a worldview affects ethics and ethical decision making in general and for social workers.
Describe how a social workers answers to the ultimate questions in his or her worldview as found on the blog, can affect his or her ethical decision making. Give an example.
Identify two components of a Christian worldview, one that compliments and one that potentially conflicts with the NASW Code of Ethics in some area and explain why.
All human cultures, organizations and systems develop a culture including a worldview. Social work is no exception. Respond to the following.
Does the social work profession have its own worldview? Why or why not? Discuss evidence you see in at least one area and explain (political leaning, beliefs, areas of advocacy, policy, etc).
Using the Ultimate Questions described in the blog, “How Should We Analyze a Worldview”, provide an analysis of the social work worldview that one may experience as a school based therapist and practice. What answers does the profession try to provide to one or more of the questions? What beliefs or assumptions does social work as a profession base its answers to the questions on? What does the profession point to as its source of truth if any?
Can social workers answer questions 2 and 3 of the ultimate questions as a profession or in their work with clients without also answering questions 1 and 4? Why or why not.