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The Use of Vignettes in Qualitative Research into Social Work Values

Tom Wilks
- 01 Mar 2004 - 
- Vol. 3, Iss: 1, pp 78-87
TLDR
In this paper, the authors use vignettes to examine ethical dilemmas in social care, and explore values that might generate more complex and sophisticated understandings of social work ethics in practice.
Abstract
Values play an important role in the construction of social workers’ professional identities. However current accounts of social work ethics can have difficulty in providing an account of social work values in practice that incorporates the complexity and reflexive nature of much value talk in social care. Direct research in this area has been very limited. Where it has been carried out quantitative research using vignettes has been an important approach. Vignettes have many advantages when used to examine ethical dilemmas. Their increasing use in qualitative research offers new possibilities in exploring values that might generate more complex and sophisticated understandings of social work ethics.

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The application of vignettes in social and nursing research

TL;DR: It is demonstrated how vignettes can be very useful research tools yielding valuable data when studying people's attitudes, perceptions and beliefs in social and nursing research.
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Ethics and Values in Social Work

Sarah Banks
TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of principle-based and relationship-based approaches to social work ethics, and present a set of guidelines for social workers to follow in practice.
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Empathy in Conduct-Disordered and Comparison Youth.

TL;DR: Empathy was measured by an interview assessing emotions and cognitions in response to videotaped vignettes of persons in affective events and by empathy self-report questionnaires as mentioned in this paper.
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Considering the Vignette Technique and its Application to a Study of Drug Injecting and HIV Risk and Safer Behaviour

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the value of vignettes together with the difficulties associated with the technique and introduce the technique in a study that explores drug injectors' perceptions of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) risk and safer behaviour inside and outside the prison system.