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The SAGE Handbook of Decision Making, Assessment and Risk in Social Work

SAGE HB DECISION MAKING ASSESSMENT AND RISK IN SOCL WRK

Social Work

Humanities & Social Sciences

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Binding Format

Marketing Imprint Name

B2B GT

CL Carton Count

Imprint Name

B2B & B2C

<P>This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of key debates and issues; and gives pointers on future directions for practice, research, teaching, management of services, and development of theoretical understandings. Its key aim is to support the development of sound, applied 'science' (knowledge) and values to underpin reasoned, reasonable professional judgement and decision making by social workers in practice and those in management and regulatory roles.</P>

Duration

Duration Unit Of Measure

Transaction Type

Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Photo Credits.
Contents.
About the Editors.
About the Contributors.
Foreword.
1: Introduction to the Handbook.
2: Professional Judgements.
3: Introduction to Section One: Professional Judgements.
4: Heuristics and Biases.
5: Confirmation Bias in Social Work.
6: Blame and Emotion in Professional Judgement.
7: The Influence of Optimism on Analysis in Professional Judgement.
8: Heuristics in Professional Judgement: Between Proximity and Distance.
9: Professional Judgement in Context.
10: Collective Cultures, Risk, and Individual Judgement.
11: Social and Relational Contexts of Professional Judgements within Organisations.
12: Knowledge Use in Judgement Processes.
13: Intuition in Social Work Practice.
14: Challenges to Using Knowledge (Evidence) in Professional Judgement.
15: Critical Thinking and Professional Judgement.
16: Discretion and Reasoning.
17: Sensemaking in Professional Judgement.
18: Theories of Professional Judgement.
19: Prospects and Developments.
20: Methods for Studying Professional Judgement in Social Work.
21: Assessment, Risk and Decision Processes.
22: Introduction to Section Two: Assessment, Risk and Decision Processes.
23: Contextual Aspects of Decision Making and Working with Risk.
24: Cultural Aspects of Assessment and Decision-making Processes.
25: Legally Literate Decision Making and Management of Risk in Social Work.
26: Interprofessional Decision Making.
27: Decision Making in Organisational Contexts.
28: Assessment and Risk: Recognising the Circularity of Child-adverse Events and Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adults.
29: Engaging Children and Families in Assessment and Decision Processes.
30: Engaging Families in Assessment and Managing Risk.
31: Engaging Children in Assessment and Decisions.
32: Reimagining Participation of Young People in Decision Making in Contexts of Vulnerability.
33: Engaging Adults in Assessment and Decision Processes.
34: Engaging Adults in the Assessment Process.
35: Shared Decision Making with Clients.
36: Decisional Capacity in Mental Health Social Work.
37: Risk, Desistance and Engagement: Working with Adult Service Users in Probation.
38: Prospects and Developments.
39: Studying Risk-managing, Decision-making and Assessment Processes.
40: Assessment Tools and Approaches.
41: Dedication.
42: Introduction to Section Three: Assessment Tools and Approaches.
43: Foundations of Assessment Tools and Approaches.
44: Foundations of Valid Assessment in Social Work.
45: From Validity to Validation and Beyond.
46: Standardised Risk Assessment: Methods, Development and Applications.
47: Assessment and the Use of Tools.
48: Implementing Assessments Using Structured Tools.
49: Decision Aids, Decision Supports and Managing Risk.
50: Legal Aspects of Decision-making Processes in Social Work.
51: Data Visualisation as an Assessment Tool.
52: Approaches to Assessment.
53: Big Data Analytics for Making Decisions and Managing Risk.
54: The Devil in the Detail: Algorithmic Risk Prediction Tools and Their Implications for Ethics, Justice and Decision Making.
55: Natural Language Processing: Opportunities and Challenges for Social Work.
56: Understanding Risk Through Social Epidemiology.
57: Developing and Managing Practice.
58: Introduction to Section Four: Developing and Managing Practice.
59: Learning and Teaching Decision Making.
60: Complexity and Troublesome Knowledge: Teaching Decision Making in Social Work.
61: Improving High-risk Decision Making in Situations of Risk and Uncertainty: The Role of Deliberate Attention.
62: Continuing Professional Development.
63: Developing Professional Expertise: Transitions and Thresholds in Complex Organisational Contexts.
64: The Contribution of Reflective Practice to Developing Professional Judgement and Decision-making Knowledge and Skills.
65: Supervising Professional Judgement.
66: Contextual and Organisational Aspects.
67: Accountability for Risk Decision Making in Social Care.
68: Getting Evidence into Organisations to Support Decision Making and Risk Work.
69: Accountability, Management and Professional Discretion.
70: Managing Service Decisions in a Risk Context.
71: Managing Risk and Decision-making Processes.
72: Regulating Risk in Care Services.
73: Risk and Regulation of the Social Work Workforce.
74: Prospects and Developments.
75: Studying the Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve Decision Making and Work with Risk.
76: Concluding Section/Afterword.
77: Challenges in Less-developed Welfare Systems and Professional Contexts.
Glossary.
Index.

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