Good Practice in Assessing Risk
eBook - ePub

Good Practice in Assessing Risk

Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Good Practice in Assessing Risk

Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Good Practice in Assessing Risk by Hazel Kemshall, Bernadette Wilkinson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sozialwissenschaften & Sozialarbeit. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 Professional Risk Taking and Defensible Decisions
  7. Chapter 2 Positive Risk Taking with People at Risk of Harm
  8. Chapter 3 The Role of Social Capital and Resources in Resilience to Risk
  9. Chapter 4 Risk Assessment and Young People
  10. Chapter 5 The Fallacy of Formalisation: Practice Makes Process in the Assessment of Risks to Children
  11. Chapter 6 Mental Health and Risk
  12. Chapter 7 Risk and Intimate Partner Violence
  13. Chapter 8 Good Lives and Risk Assessment: Collaborative Approaches to Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders
  14. Chapter 9 Risk and Personalisation
  15. Chapter 10 Public Health Approaches to Risk Assessment and Risk Management
  16. Chapter 11 Organisationally Dangerous Practice: Political Drivers, Practice Implications and Pathways to Resolution
  17. The Contributors