The Sage Handbook of Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work

Brian J. Taylor, John D. Fluke, J. Christopher Graham, Emily Keddell, Campbell Killick, Aron Shlonsky, Andrew Whittaker, Brian J. Taylor, John D. Fluke, J. Christopher Graham, Emily Keddell, Campbell Killick, Aron Shlonsky, Andrew Whittaker, Editor

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781529790191
• eBook ISBN: 9781529614626
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Investigación y metodología de las ciencias sociales

The SAGE Handbook on Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work provides a comprehensive overview of key strands of research and theoretical concepts in this increasingly important field.

With 49 chapters and four section summaries, this Handbook describes the 'state of the art'; discuss key debates and issues; and gives pointers on future directions for practice, research, teaching, management of services, and development of theoretical understandings.

A key aim of this Handbook is to support the development of sound, applied knowledge and values to underpin reasoned professional judgement and decision making by social workers in practice and those in management and regulatory roles.

With contributions from a global interdisciplinary body of leading and emerging scholars from a wide variety of roles, this handbook has been designed to be internationally generalisable and applicable to all major areas of social work.

This Handbook provides a field-defining account of decision making, assessment and risk in social work which is unrivalled for its diversity and strength of coverage, and will be of value to social work researchers, teachers and practitioners, as well as to those in allied fields such as health care.

 

Section 1: Professional Judgement

Section 2: Assessment, Risk and Decision Processes

Section 3: Assessment Tools and Approaches

Section 4: Developing and Managing Practice

Section 5: Concluding Section / Afterword

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction to the Handbook
• Section 1 Professional Judgements
• Introduction to Section One: Professional Judgements
• Sub-section A Heuristics and Biases
• 1 Confirmation Bias in Social Work
• 2 Blame and Emotion in Professional Judgement
• 3 The Influence of Optimism on Analysis in Professional Judgement
• 4 Heuristics in Professional Judgement: Between Proximity and Distance
• Sub-section B Professional Judgement in Context
• 5 Collective Cultures, Risk, and Individual Judgement
• 6 Social and Relational Contexts of Professional Judgements within Organisations
• Sub-section C Knowledge Use in Judgement Processes
• 7 Intuition in Social Work Practice
• 8 Challenges to Using Knowledge (Evidence) in Professional Judgement
• 9 Critical Thinking and Professional Judgement
• Sub-section D Discretion and Reasoning
• 10 Sensemaking in Professional Judgement
• 11 Theories of Professional Judgement
• Sub-section E Prospects and Developments
• 12 Methods for Studying Professional Judgement in Social Work
• Section 2 Assessment, Risk and Decision Processes
• Introduction to Section Two: Assessment, Risk and Decision Processes
• Sub-section A Contextual Aspects of Decision Making and Working with Risk
• 13 Cultural Aspects of Assessment and Decision-making Processes
• 14 Legally Literate Decision Making and Management of Risk in Social Work
• 15 Interprofessional Decision Making
• 16 Decision Making in Organisational Contexts
• 17 Assessment and Risk: Recognising the Circularity of Child-adverse Events and Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adults
• Sub-section B Engaging Children and Families in Assessment and Decision Processes
• 18 Engaging Families in Assessment and Managing Risk
• 19 Engaging Children in Assessment and Decisions
• 20 Reimagining Participation of Young People in Decision Making in Contexts of Vulnerability
• Sub-section C Engaging Adults in Assessment and Decision Processes
• 21 Engaging Adults in the Assessment Process
• 22 Shared Decision Making with Clients
• 23 Decisional Capacity in Mental Health Social Work
• 24 Risk, Desistance and Engagement: Working with Adult Service Users in Probation
• Sub-section D Prospects and Developments
• 25 Studying Risk-managing, Decision-making and Assessment Processes
• Section 3 Assessment Tools and Approaches
• Introduction to Section Three: Assessment Tools and Approaches
• Sub-section A Foundations of Assessment Tools and Approaches
• 26 Foundations of Valid Assessment in Social Work
• 27 From Validity to Validation and Beyond
• 28 Standardised Risk Assessment: Methods, Development and Applications
• Sub-section B Assessment and the Use of Tools
• 29 Implementing Assessments Using Structured Tools
• 30 Decision Aids, Decision Supports and Managing Risk
• 31 Legal Aspects of Decision-making Processes in Social Work
• 32 Data Visualisation as an Assessment Tool
• Sub-section C Approaches to Assessment
• 33 Big Data Analytics for Making Decisions and Managing Risk
• 34 The Devil in the Detail: Algorithmic Risk Prediction Tools and Their Implications for Ethics, Justice and Decision Making
• 35 Natural Language Processing: Opportunities and Challenges for Social Work
• 36 Understanding Risk Through Social Epidemiology
• Section 4 Developing and Managing Practice
• Introduction to Section Four: Developing and Managing Practice
• Sub-section A Learning and Teaching Decision Making
• 37 Complexity and Troublesome Knowledge: Teaching Decision Making in Social Work
• 38 Improving High-risk Decision Making in Situations of Risk and Uncertainty: The Role of Deliberate Attention
• Sub-section B Continuing Professional Development
• 39 Developing Professional Expertise: Transitions and Thresholds in Complex Organisational Contexts
• 40 The Contribution of Reflective Practice to Developing Professional Judgement and Decision-making Knowledge and Skills
• 41 Supervising Professional Judgement
• Sub-section C Contextual and Organisational Aspects
• 42 Accountability for Risk Decision Making in Social Care
• 43 Getting Evidence into Organisations to Support Decision Making and Risk Work
• 44 Accountability, Management and Professional Discretion
• Sub-section D Managing Service Decisions in a Risk Context
• 45 Managing Risk and Decision-making Processes
• 46 Regulating Risk in Care Services
• 47 Risk and Regulation of the Social Work Workforce
• Sub-section E Prospects and Developments
• 48 Studying the Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Decision Making and Work with Risk
• Section 5 Concluding Section/Afterword
• 49 Challenges in Less-developed Welfare Systems and Professional Contexts
• Glossary
• Index