Do You Believe That Lums Principles Should Be Formally Included In Social Work's Ethical Framework

I do believe that Lum’s principles should be formally included in social work’s ethical framework to improve ethical practice and decision making amongst professionals who service clients. Social workers need to value family unity, parental leadership, respect for the elderly, and collective family decision making.
An example, I was a brand new to the school I work at. I was assigned the title of Crisis Management Para for a young caucasian boy as I am an African American woman. This was a family suing the school and the child very violent injuring staff as parents refuse to medicate him. I found the task of recruiting the parents to trust me even more challenging than I could have anticipated as they had bad experience with other staff due to their child. Both parents were
As a crisis para for my school, they could not trust me. On top of that, I was African American. I knew, going into this that my experience would be difficult to engage the parents and be on board with what I had to offer looking past the negative as well as my skin color. Lum’s work advises that people of diverse cultures often are hesitant to approach social services. My use of the cultural competence principles learned to that point in the various courses taken played a huge role in how I went about the task of engaging these parents. One key principle I utilized then and now was that of simple rapport building with parents in the school community. This type of rapport building includes an open invitation to meet with me at any time, and friendly discussions with them as a family unit to foster comfort. I kept an open mind to understand why they refuse medication not putting my personal feelings in the mix. Making a point to use friendly language and a comfortable, respectful demeanor when I approached the parents with issues regarding their child. In wanting to include my personal feeling but holding back I became frustrated with my work for