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Risk and Social Work (Hardcover)
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Risk and Social Work (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1982, Risk and Social Work provides a useful
framework for analysing risk in the social welfare context.
Surprisingly, social work and other helping professions have
hitherto given little attention to the use and meaning of 'risk',
although the term is frequently employed, with clients and helpers
being described as 'at risk', or 'in danger'. The media have taken
up these terms, noticeably in cases involving child abuse, the
elderly and conditions in psychiatric institutions, often at the
expense of our image of the social services. Paul Brearley's
discussion of the analysis and management of risk in social work
will therefore be of value to people working in the helping
professions. Mr. Brearley begins by establishing a series of
definitions, drawing primarily from the commercial insurance field,
and from the literature on scientific and workplace hazards. These
definitions form the base for a framework of risk analysis which
stresses the importance of values and the chance element in
decision making about risk. He shows how this framework can be used
in practice in emergency and risky situations, and looks at the
management of hazards and uncertainty with particular reference to
social work practice.
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