Risk assessment in social care and social work / edited by Phyllida Parsloe.
Contributor(s): Parsloe, Phyllida
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BookSeries: Research highlights in social work ; 36.Publisher: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999Description: 267 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1853026891 .Subject(s): Social service | Risk assessment | Risk managementDDC classification: 368.00681 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Risk Assessment in Social Care and Social Work outlines the theoretical issues behind the decisions, processes and organisations involved in risk assessment. Written by leading academics and experienced practitioners, it considers implications for future policy, drawing on the full range of perspectives in the most recent research. It considers the following themes:
* The concepts of risk and dangerousness, and the ethical questions, which arise when assessments of risk are made.
* The wider context of social policy and legislation, and the interaction between rehabilitation and the distribution of risk.
* Social services staff and the risks they pose to their clients - the issues of selection, supervision and accountability; and risks to practitioners themselves.
Individual chapters describe and compare methods of risk assessment with different client groups, including older people, children, people with mental health problems, and sex offenders. This book will ensure that practitioners, managers and policy makers deepen and coordinate their understanding of the key issues involved in both the initial choices made about the extent of risk, and the stable and productive management of the outcomes of those decisions.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Phyllida Parsloe -- Perceptions of risk / Kenneth I. Macdonald and Geraldine M. Macdonald -- Rehabilitation and the distribution of risk / Brian Caddick and David Watson -- Risk assessment and prediction research / Bill Beaumont -- Social services staff: risks they face and their dangerousness to others / Peter Burke -- Assessing risk in work with offenders / Bill Beaumont -- Assessing risk in mental health / Joan Langan -- Assessing risks for children / Kay Sargent -- Old people at risk / Olive Stevenson -- Training professionals in risk assessment and risk management: What does the research tell us? / Mike Titterton.
CIT Module PSYC 7003 - Supplementary reading.