Macro level resources and confidentiality practices in social work
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Ethics and the alleged unethical.
Charles W. McCann, DSW, is Profes sor, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, and served as Chairperson, NASW National Committee on In quiry, from 1973 to 1977. Jane Park Cutler, MSW, served on the 1976 NASW Task Force on Ethics. She is currently a doctoral student at the National Catholic School of Social Ser vice, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and a social worker, Arlington County Department of Hu man Resources, Arlington, Virginia. The authors wish to thank My les Johnson, NASW Staff Associate, for his assistance in preparing this article. Increasing dissatisfaction with the The 1977 Delegate Assembly con ethical standards of the social work sidered the suggested revisions and profession has led to recent efforts to plan for action, but instead of adopt revise the National Association of Soing them, they voted to establish a new cial Workers' Code of Ethics. The task force to revise the code further,
Same Same But Different - also in Europe! A New Methodological Approach in Cross-Country Analysis of Communication Structuresapplied to five EU member states
The EU still lacks a truly European public sphere. On this level, there is still a clear lack of integration between individual member states. This means that national public spheres and cultures are still of great importance for European communication and media professionals. Comparative research into the similarities and differences between different nations is therefore valuable for cross-border PR communication activities. This paper lays out the methodological foundation for such research, discussing possible approaches and difficulties associated with comparative research. The author then introduces a potential heuristic framework for comparative analysis: the International Corporate Communication Compass. This framework is applied to five case-study EU countries (Denmark, Germany, France, Poland and the UK), showing the differences and similarities in a range of different contexts that affect public communication in all its forms. The conclusion examines how the results of such studies could be used in order to compare communication identities of different countries. This can potentially help in the development of a European public identity on the long run and in a first step can led towards a better, more adapted communication structure about European citizenship. Ultimately, communication structures within the EU might become more Europeanized than they