Good Practice in Assessing Risk - Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Contributors:	Karen Broadhurst • Jennie Fleming • Martin C. Calder • Kerry Baker • Thilo Boeck • Georgia Barnett • Jon Glasby • Andrew Pithouse • Amanda Robinson • Sue Peckover
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	224
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84905-059-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > Offenders > Rehabilitation of offenders Promotions
LSN:	1-84905-059-7
Barcode:	9781849050593

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