Risk in Social Work Practice: Current Issues - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138599956 ISBN 13: 9781138599956

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

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.

This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Social Work Practice.

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About the Author

Andrew Whittaker is an Associate Professor of Social Work at London South Bank University, UK, where he is the Head of the Risk, Resilience and Expert Decision Making research group. His research focuses on child protection and the risks faced by young people in cities.

Brian Taylor is a Professor of Social Work at Ulster University, Coleraine, UK, where he leads the Decision, Assessment, Risk and Evidence Studies research cluster. He is the author of Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work (2013, 3rd ed) and Understanding and Using Research in Social Work (with Anne McGlade and Campbell Killick, 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138599956
• ISBN 13: 9781138599956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 134
• Editor: Whittaker Andrew, Taylor Brian