Creative Approaches to Social Work Practice and Risk

Heidi Dix, Aisha Howells

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040452844
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

This book bridges together theory and practice to provide practitioners with a creative toolkit to navigate practice, risk, safety and supervision in day-to-day situations.

Each chapter is written by a qualified practitioner, social work academic or someone involved in social work education and presents an innovative or creative approach to risk in social work practice and supervision. Contemporary and diverse ideas, including supervision and ways to work alongside people with lived experience, are explored in a straightforward and innovative way and allow for reflective and insightful practice to take place.

An ideal resource for practitioners looking for quick, innovative, straightforward tools to use in their day-to-day practice.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Endorsements Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Editors
• Contributors
• A note about illustrations
• Figures
• Tables
• Appendices
• Introduction
• 1 Practising confidently in times of uncertainty
• 2 Exploring risk and safety when working with child sexual abuse
• 3 Creating a welcome space in the margin of error: Finding a place for mistakes in social work
• 4 Creatively applying professional dangerousness to improve practice responses to risk situations
• 5 From conflict to clarity: Navigating difficult conversations to assess and address risk
• 6 Integrating therapeutic techniques into social work practice
• 7 Coaching in social work to promote safety and well-being
• 8 Using IDEAS to support relational social work practice when working with risk
• 9 Summary
• Index