The Safe Approach: Controlling Risk for Workers in the Helping Professions - Softcover

Ennis, Charles; Douglas, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930461038 ISBN 13: 9781930461031

Verlag: IDYLL ARBOR (WA), 2007

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This book provides training for social workers and health care professionals to reduce risk in field and office interactions with potentially dangerous clients, including: risk evaluation, attitude, preparation, behavioral cues, disengaging from dangerous situations, and dealing with stress after an assault. It includes specific methods to handle all phases of the interview and treatment process.

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Charles Ennis and Janet Douglas have almost 50 years of combined law enforcement and social work experience They have worked together for more than 10 years investigating high-risk child abuse complaints where there were concerns about the potential for violence. Until his retirement, Ennis was a member of the Emergency Response Team Tactical Unit and a Gang Crime Unit for the Vancouver Police Department. Douglas has been a frontline child protection social worker in Vancouver, BC, for the past 21 years, working with families in crisis. The authors have trained numerous agencies and their staff on how to be safe when working in the field.

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Field workers in the helping professions social work, home health care, emergency services are exposed to violent acts from the very people they are trying to help. Nearly one third of them will be assaulted sometime in their career. Yet few agencies train their staff to face such risks.Helping professionals work in many diverse communities, both urban and rural, with differing populations, cultures, and a wide range of levels of violence. The authors have tried to anticipate all possible scenarios, ranging from verbal threats and physical assault to attacks with firearms. An awareness of the potential for all levels of violence should become an integral part of the professional routine.If you are in the helping professions, The Safe Approach: Controlling Risk for Workers in the Helping Professions provides you with the tools you need to control the risk and keep yourself safe. This book teaches: * how to conduct ongoing risk evaluation * how attitude can increase or decrease risk * how to prepare for a client visit, in the office or in the field * ways to evaluate risk in the field * behavioral cues which may precede an assault * how to work with co-workers to reduce risk * disengaging should a subject become physically hostile * how to deal with stress after an assault.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: IDYLL ARBOR (WA)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1930461038
• ISBN 13: 9781930461031
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 183
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