It is debatable whether this activation context influences the social worker/user relationship regarding social work ideals such as empowerment and user involvement. Social work history is filled with instances where social workers have had to make decisions of conscience about whether to obey the law, particularly when doing so seems to conflict with social work values. THE IMPORTANCE OF LAW TO SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION AND THE LINK BETWEEN SOCIALWORK AND HUMAN RIGHTS These social workers argue that professionals must use their professional judgment and, if necessary, engage in civil disobedience. This qualitative case study of encounters between social workers and users enrolled in a Norwegian activation programme explores their interaction as a working relationship. Social justice has many definitions. Social work has to be conscious of its values and possess a solid knowledge base, not least in the field of human rights, to guide it in many conflicting situations throughout its practice. A social worker's professional relationship with a client intersects with the client's relationships to family and community. Sometimes conflicts arise between the social worker's professional obligation to a client – the client's right to confidentiality, for example – and the social worker's own ethics, her concern for the client's well-being or her obligation to the community. Social Service vs Social Work . The social work profession promotes social change, problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well-being. Social work uniquely sets out to improve relationships between people Nineteenth century campaigners complained about early social workers interfering in other people's lives. Utilising theories of human behaviour and social systems, social work intervenes at the points where people interact with their environments. The most common definition, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is: “Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities and privileges within a society.” The definitions that are most applicable to alleviating poverty, however, are: Ask a person to live alone, and he will develop all sorts of mental and psychological problems that reflect man’s need to be in touch with other human beings. 1. The difference between social service and social work mainly exists in their structure. Here's Frederic Reamer (as usual) detailing the whys and whats of this section of the code in Social Work Today: Facing Up to Social Worker Sexual Misconduct. Social workers are people as well as social workers and have personal views of the social world and relationships and how they think these ought to be. Understanding the role of the social care worker 1.1 Explain how a working relationship is different from a personal relationship The difference between a working relationship and a personal relationship is that a professional relationship is governed by professional codes of conduct and employer policies and procedures. Man has all along been called a social animal and rightly so. However, law and Sociology has similar subject matters such as both evolve around social relationships, principles, social controls, commitments and desires coming from specific social status and connections between or among people and society. As Leighton (1985) rightly points out, the presumption that some personal views will, or should be, shared by some other social workers or in a code of ethics by all other social workers, There is an enduring and powerful relationship between social justice and economic justice. 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