ABSTRACT
Social work ethics has come of age. During the profession’s earliest years, social workers focused primarily, and appropriately, on the nature of social work’s core values. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, commentaries on ethical issues in social work were few and far between, limited especially to discussions of the foundational importance of values such as client dignity, privacy, trust, and self-determination (Emmet, 1962; Pumphrey, 1959; Towle, 1965).
