Decision Making in Social Work: 77 (Practical Social Work Series) - Softcover

O'Sullivan, Terence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230223591 ISBN 13: 9780230223592

Verlag: Red Globe Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

At a time when accountability and the avoidance of risk are increasingly demanded of social work practitioners, the ability to make clear and reasoned professional decisions is essential. This welcome new edition provides a supportive framework for making social work judgements and assessments based on a structured and practical approach.

Woven through with practice scenarios applicable to the many facets of social work, this text emphasizes the importance of good decision making to high-quality social work practice. Reassuringly clear throughout, this new addition to the BASW Practical Social Work series is core reading for all involved in the field of social work, whether as students, academics, practitioners or managers.

New to this Edition:
- Provides an accessible discussion and framework for a skill which all students must evidence in orderto qualify for practice
- Significantly updated to reflect the growing prominence of user involvement and interprofessional collaboration

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TERENCE O'SULLIVAN is Principal Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Lincoln, UK.

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At a time when accountability and the avoidance of risk are increasingly demanded of social work practitioners, the ability to make clear and reasoned professional decisions is essential. This welcome new edition provides a supportive framework for making social work judgements and assessments based on a structured and practical approach.

Assessing the social, organizational and psychological backdrops which frame all decisions, this timely text explores:
? the key principles and goals which inform decision making
? the pressures of making decisions within interprofessional settings
? reflexive approaches to analysis, decision making and outcome evaluation
? the complex relationship between sound decisions and the attainment of planned outcomes

Woven through with practice scenarios applicable to the many facets of social work, this text emphasizes the importance of good decision making to high-quality social work practice. Reassuringly clear throughout, this new addition to the BASW Practical Social Work series is core reading for all involved in the field of social work, whether as students, academics, practitioners or managers.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Red Globe Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0230223591
• ISBN 13: 9780230223592
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228
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