In the field of health and social services, ethical suffering at work involving social worker is a phenomenon now well documented in North America and Europe. By comparing theoretical discussion and analysis of empirical data, this article proposes, on one hand, to show how the prospect of ethics of care can be relevant to analyze some of the sources of ethical suffering in the field of social intervention. On the other hand, the article presents how this ethical and theoretical perspective opens avenues to rethink and reorganize practices in the field of health and social services.