1. Full name: Pham Thi Huyen Trang                              2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: March, 29th, 1988                                  4. Place of birth: Thai Binh

5. Admission decision number 1745/2017/QĐ-XHNV Date July 13rd, 2017 by Headmaster of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in academic process:

- Decision No. 3129/QD-XHNV on changing the name of the PhD thesis topic of the PhD student, date October 30th, 2018 by Headmaster of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

- Decision No. 557/QĐ-XHNV on the addition of PhD thesis supervisor, date March 6th, 2019 by Headmaster of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

- Decision No. 1444/QĐ-XHNV on extending the training period for PhD students in the course QH-2017-X; dated August 17th, 2020 by Headmaster of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

- Decision No. 1743/QĐ-XHNV on changing the PhD thesis supervisor, date September 29th, 2020 by Headmaster of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

- Decision No. 1184/QĐ-XHNV on changing the name of the PhD thesis topic of the PhD student Pham Thi Huyen Trang, date June 8th, 2021 by Headmaster of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

- Decision No. 1695/QD-XHNV-ĐT on extending the training period for PhD students in the course QH-2017-X; dated August 11st, 2021 by Headmaster of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

7. Official thesis title: Professional ethics of social workers nowadays (research in Hanoi, Vietnam).

8. Major: Social work                             9. Code: 9760101.01

10. Supervisor 1: Assoc.Prof.Dr. Bui Thi Hong Thai

Supervisor 2: Dr. Nguyen Ba Dat

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

The thesis is one of the few researches on professional ethics of social workers in Vietnam (research in Hanoi, Vietnam), the research has the following new results:

- With the combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods, the thesis analyzed the current situation of professional ethics of social workers in Hanoi city in five aspects: (i) professional responsibility; (ii) privacy and confidentiality; (iii) the relationship with clients; (iv) the relationship with colleagues and (v) the relationship with the organization. Specifically, in the 5 research aspects, the subjects have professional ethics with the highest professional ethical standards in the aspect of relationship with the client and the lowest in the professional responsibility aspect.

- The thesis pointed out and analyzed the factors affecting professional ethics of social workers. Socio-demographic characteristics of research subjects (such as gender, age, training level, work experience) influenced the professional ethics of social workers. In which, female had higher mean scores of professional ethics than male. The group of subjects aged from 31 to 40 years old, the group of subjects with post-graduate training and the group of subjects with over 10 years working experience had the highest professional ethics scores in the ethical dimensions. The thesis results also show that the impacts of both organizations and individuals on the professional ethics of research subjects. Specifically, from an organizational perspective, the increase in opportunities for “learning about professional ethics” and “high income” which contributing to a positive change about professional ethics of social workers. From a personal perspective, well-being at work of social workers can increase scores in all five professional ethics aspects that the study covers.

- From the analysis of the above situation, the thesis proposes recommendations for social workers, social service agencies, education and training institutions, Association of Vocational Education and Social Work Profession may be considered to improve the professional ethics of social workers.

12. Practical applicability, if any:

- Social workers; social service agencies, social work education institutions can refer to the thesis results, thereby serving as a basis for building programs, teaching programmes and policies systematically on professional ethics to promote ethical practices of social workers.

13. Further research directions, if any:

- Professional ethics of social workers in online practice context

14. Thesis-related publications:

- Pham Thi Huyen Trang (2019), “Research on violations of professional ethics of social workers in practice in Vietnam and international experience”, Proceedings of the International Conference: The Vietnamese social work profession – theoretical and practical issues, ISBN: 978-604-73-6810-5, VNUHCM Publishing House, pp. 32-44.

- Pham Thi Huyen Trang (2021), “Perceptions and behavior of social workers about information security situations of client”, Scientific Journal of Hanoi Metropolitan University (47), pp. 47-55.

- Pham Thi Huyen Trang (2021), “The relationship between well-being at work and the professional ethics of social workers”, International Journal of Advanced Research Vol. 9(4), pp. 971-975.

- Pham Thi Huyen Trang (2021), “The ethics of the social workers in professional responsibility aspect in context of practice in Vietnam”, American Research Journal of Humanities Social Science Vol. 4(6), pp.32-39.

- Pham Thi Huyen Trang (2021), “The influence of socio-demographic characteristics on professional ethics of social workers”, Human Studies (5), pp. 69-76.

- Pham Thi Huyen Trang, Pham Thi Hang Nga (2021), “The ethics of the hospital social workers in professional responsibility aspect in Hanoi, Vietnam nowadays”, Conference Proceedings The 2nd International Conference on Innovations in the Social Sciences & Humanities 2021, pp. 445-454.