Good Practice In Assessing Risk
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This book is a comprehensive guide to good practice for those working with risk, covering a wide variety of social care settings. The contributors discuss a range of key issues relating to risk including positive risk-taking, collaborating with victims and practitioners in the design of assessment tools, resilience to risk, and defensibility. Maintaining a balance between managing and assessing risk and upholding the required high standards of practice in health and social care can be demanding, particularly in the current climate of increased preoccupation with the difficult tensions between rights, protection and risk-taking.Good Practice in Assessing Risk is a comprehensive guide to good practice for those working with risk, covering a wide variety of health, social care and criminal justice settings including child protection, mental health, work with sex offenders and work with victims of domestic violence. The contributors discuss a range of key issues relating to risk including positive risk-taking, collaborating with victims and practitioners in the design of assessment tools, resilience to risk, and defensibility. The book also explores the role of bureaucracy in hindering high quality professional practice, complex decision-making in situations of stress or potential blame, and involving service users in assessment. This book reflects the latest policy and practice within health, social care and criminal justice and will be an invaluable volume to all professionals working in these fields.
Specificaties
- Aantal pagina's
- 226
- Auteur
- Hazel Kemshall, Martin C. Calder, Jennie Fleming, Tony Maden, Ruth Mann, Jon Glasby, Andrew Pithouse, Thilo Boeck, Kerry Baker, Sue Peckover, Rosemary Littlechild, Karen Broadhurst, Georgia Barnett, Mike Titterton, Jason Wood, Chris Hall, Amanda Robinson
- Ondertitel
- Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches
- Taal
- en
- Uitgever
- Jessica Kingsley Publishers
- Uitvoering
- Paperback
- Verschijningsjaar
- 2011-01-15
- ISBN
- 9781849050593
Artikelnummer: 9781849050593