Frunza, A., Sandu, A. (2015) Values Based Social Work. Constitutive and Operational Values, 6th LUMEN International Conference RETHINKING SOCIAL ACTION. CORE VALUES, 16th – 19th of April 2015, Iasi, Romania.
The work is the result of research carried out during 2012- 2013, in social work field, in order to determine structural frames of a welfare model centered on ethical values, based on qualitative data analysis – Grounded Theory – obtained by individual and group interviews of social workers in the NE region of Romania. The objective of this research is to identify those ethical values in social care professionals consider to be constitutive for social work profession and that those values resulting from the speech of interviewees to be operational in the current practice of social services. The analysis model is consistent of recent models of development of expertise in social work, through the supervision of ethics.