Leadership and Ethics

Leadership and Ethics (3-hour ethics CEU)

 Leadership and Ethics (3-hour ethics CEU)
Presented by: Alishia Ferguson, BSW, MSSW, LMSW, PhD

Join us for a discussion about leadership and ethics. We will take a broad view of Leadership and Ethics based on the conceptof Self Leadership in Social Work as defined by Bill McKitterick, who believes that Social Workers must all be leaders, regardless of their roles at work.

We will also discuss Dr Fredric Reamer’s stance on moral courage at work and how this idea informs both self-leadership and the ethics of leadership . We'll cover relevant sections of the NASW Code of Ethics that emphasizes each of the six social work values and how to apply the values in the context of leadership. Finally, we will complete the afternoon with case studies that highlight leadership and ethics  

*Space is limited to 25
participants

**Please note the No Refund
policy. If there is an emergency, we will credit your payment toward a future NASW Arkansas event, to be used within one year of the credit.

Dr. Alishia Ferguson is in her 10th year at the University of Arkansas. She is the Director and Clinical Associate Professor of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences – School of Social Work. She holds a BSW, MSSW, and PhD in Social Work from the University of Texas at Arlington. She practiced medical social work for 18 years, focusing on older adults and their families and on medical education. Currently, she is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, teaching online and in the classroom for both undergraduates and graduate students. Dr. Ferguson taught the popular social work and humanities elective, On Death and Dying for 6 years. She has taught the elective Ethics and Aging, Research Methods, Introduction to Social Work, Practice III and field seminar.

Her research interests include aging and caregiving for older adults and she is a co-investigator for the community-university initiative, Age Friendly Fayetteville. According to Dr. Ferguson, one of the best aspects of her job is her work in the community. She regularly supervises social work interns in the field and serves on the Washington Regional Faith in Action board, the Seniors and Law Enforcement Together (S.A.L.T.) board and is so honored to be recently appointed to the Washington Regional Hospice board.