Ethical dilemmas in social work from the perspective of a social worker with convicts in prison

The diploma thesis focuses on ethical dilemmas in the work of a social worker with convicts serving a prison sentence from an interdisciplinary perspective. The diploma thesis deals with the importance of ethics in the work of a social worker, defines the subject of ethics, especially the relationship between ethics and morality, and describes basic ethical approaches. The issue is approached not only from an ethical point of view, but also from a psychological and pedagogical point of view in the diploma thesis. The historical development of ethical opinions is captured from the point of view of the main representatives of ethical trends, such as deontology and utilitarianism. The diploma thesis deals with the concept of justice and social justice, with which ethical codes work as one of the basic values of social work. There is defined the social work, its goals, possible divisions, legislative anchoring of the social work and selected theoretical concepts in the next part of the thesis. The aim of the diploma thesis was to reveal specific situations that social worker encounters in prison and considers them to be ethically dilemmatic. The practical goal of the work was to explain how the social worker experiences these situations, what strategies she chooses when managing them and where she looks for sources of support for her decision-making