The Ethics of Financial Social Work.

The economy is the largest context in which social work operates, and thus social work has an ethical responsibility to assess and intervene in the larger economic context, particularly as we face the rise of capital in a globalized world. In this context, financial social work has arisen, but it lacks a comprehensive assessment of the ethics of financial social work from a real world understanding of macroeconomics and microeconomics, including the relationships between wealthy and poor countries and the role of power in such relationships. We propose an ethical framework to develop such an assessment with a balanced understanding of the role of debt, financial education, and power relations in the economic context presented from the perspective of the United States and Chile. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]