Assistenti sociali e scelte morali. Spunti di riflessione dall’intreccio di diverse prospettive etiche

[Autom. eng. transl.] What questions can a social worker ask himself that wants to reason about the moral issues involved in the complex situations of his professional practice? The article takes its cue from a concrete case to propose some questions that arise from the different theoretical perspectives related to the moral dimension of social work: from approaches related to universal principles, such as teleological, deontological and rights, we move to more contextual positions ( "Situated"), like the ethics of virtue and relational orientations such as ethics of care, narrative approaches, ethics of the face. From the interweaving of these points of observation the operator can take suggestions to choose how to act in the peculiar aid relations in which he is involved from time to time.