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Risk in Social Work Practice: Current Issues

Risk in Social Work Practice: Current Issues

Paperback

Medical ReferencePoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0367586479
ISBN13: 9780367586478
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2020
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.85 Depth: 9.69
Language: English

The study of 'risk' in social work involves complex interplay between human behaviour, emotion, evidence of fact, professional values and organisational systems. This book brings together contributions from key social work researchers and theorists from the UK, USA, New Zealand and Italy, writing with a focus on aspects of risk within social work. It examines key debates concerning risk in contemporary social work practice, including ethical dilemmas, approaches to decision-making and the challenges of ignorance and errors. Contributions range from the perennial challenges of how one uses formal knowledge when assessing risk to emerging risks arising from the counterterrorism agenda. This book will enable practitioners, policy makers and researchers to appreciate the complexities of risk in different settings and apply this understanding to their own practice.

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