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ALDOĞAN, Sara Nilgün. An Investigation of the Factors Affecting Ethical Decision Making Processes of Social Workers, M.Sc. Thesis, Ankara, 2018. Social work is a discipline and a profession that is based on human values and provides services by re-delivering human rights to people with knowledge, skills and values. The ethical principles based on the value of the profession and based on this principle are defined as the roadmap of the ethical decision-making process in professional practice. However, it cannot be ruled out that there are other factors besides the ethical values of the profession in the ethical decision making process of the social worker who is composed of different values because of being a person. The main purpose of this research is to understand the individual, social, organizational and occupational factors that influence the ethical decision-making processes of social workers. At this point, it is important to understand how the experts' prior knowledge, skills and value bases, how their individual values and assessments affect the ethical decision-making process, the institutional and bureaucratic barriers, social policies, workload and lack of supervision are influential in the ethical decision- the difficulties they face, and the understanding of the role of ethical principles and ethical decisionmaking in dealing with these difficulties. For this purpose, methodological qualitative research was chosen and experts' opinions and experiences about values perception, ethical principles and ethical decision making processes were tried to be understood. In this direction, in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 social service experts working in the field of child welfare under the Ministry of Family and Social Policy and working in Ankara. The subjects are social workers with 3 profession and years of experience. Nine of them are working in the Child Protection Unit of Ankara Family and Social Policies Provincial Directorate and four in Ankara Children's Homes Site. As a result of the ...