We also wanted a way to represent our work values.
And the dilution of the ASW role is seen in many quarters as an attack on social work values.
Social work values, so the theory goes, reflect a world view in which all individuals are treated as citizens within society, with rights, and worthy of equal respect.
These should include your personal work values, the type of skills you enjoy using, as well as the practical essentials, such as salary level and location.
He explains the free agent economy as honoring four work values: having freedom; being authentic; putting yourself on the line; and defining your own success.
Its curriculum emphasises bringing a humane approach and social work values into the workplace, helping students learn strategies for creating positive business environments, healthy employees and strong communities.
While social work values and ethics transcend gender, it also has long underpinned traditions of feminism, humanism and philanthropy, largely championing the rights and needs of women.
Today we role-played how to apply social work values and skills if telling a parent that a child may need to be removed.
And yet there's also a view abroad which says that, far from attacking or ignoring social work values, the government has incorporated them into its thinking.
"Social work values are about communities and family networks but, in the 1980s and 1990s, social services became increasingly prescriptive and individualistic," she said.
Identifying why you became a teacher can help you realise what work values may be important for you even if you change jobs.
