For social work with adults with mild intellectual disabilities, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) provides a framework for putting the principles of social justice and human rights into practice. This article focuses on social workers’ knowledge, values, and skills, which may contribute to the protection of the rights of adults with mild intellectual disabilities. A scoping review found no documented effective competencies for realizing human rights and social inclusion for adults with mild intellectual disabilities. As a result, a narrative review was conducted focusing on codes of ethics and competency profiles in the USA, UK, and Netherlands. The codes of ethics were found to align with the values of social justice, human dignity, integrity, competence/expertise, and relationship building. Differences between the codes of ethics and competency profiles were found in the human rights underpinning and weight given to advocacy, racism, dimensions of justice, and intersectionality. Six clusters of competencies were identified as aligning with CRPD aspirations: assessment, engagement, advancement, empowerment, intervention, and professionalism. We conclude that with regard to skills and knowledge, social work is profiled as a human rights profession in the USA and UK more explicitly than in NL. Regardless of the codes of ethics and competency profiles, convincing evidence that performing the competencies contributes to human rights realization is lacking. Further investigation of social work knowledge and skills that may be effective in the protection and promotion of human rights is recommended.

对于患有轻度智力障碍的成年人的社会工作，《联合国残疾人权利公约》（CRPD）提供了将社会正义和人权原则付诸实践的框架。本文重点关注社会工作者的知识、价值观和技能，这可能有助于保护患有轻度智力障碍的成年人的权利。范围界定审查发现，没有记录表明有能力为患有轻度智力障碍的成年人实现人权和社会包容。因此，我们对美国、英国和荷兰的道德准则和能力概况进行了叙述性审查。道德准则被发现与社会正义、人类尊严、正直、能力/专业知识和建立关系的价值观相一致。道德准则和能力概况之间的差异体现在人权基础和对倡导、种族主义、正义维度和交叉性的重视方面。六组能力被确定为符合 CRPD 的愿望：评估、参与、进步、赋权、干预和专业精神。我们的结论是，就技能和知识而言，社会工作在美国和英国比在荷兰更明确地被定位为人权职业。无论道德准则和能力概况如何，都缺乏令人信服的证据表明履行能力有助于实现人权。建议进一步调查可能有效保护和促进人权的社会工作知识和技能。