Personal Safety for Social Workers and Health Professionals - Couverture souple

Atkins, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909330337 ISBN 13 : 9781909330337

Editeur : Critical Publishing Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Social workers and health professionals are often placed in situations where they are verbally or physically threatened by service users and others.This book helps you recognise potential risk in situations, when to avoid involvement, and how best to manage these risks. The book will give professionals confidence in working effectively in such conditions.

The book covers the theoretical understanding of the impact of threats on professional safety and decision-making, including:

• the reality of the experience of social workers and other professionals – statistics and case examples
• the impact of physical and psychological threat
• hostage theory as it applies to social work

 It also addresses actions that workers can take to greatly reduce risk such as:

• improving safety awareness
• teamwork support
• supervision
• organisational responses and the duty of care of employers

 Practical steps that workers can take to protect themselves are explained  including:

• conflict management, diffusion and de-escalation techniques
• basic self-protection –very simple defence mechanisms

This book will appeal to both practitioners and students. It helps students to become aware of the factors which may affect judgement in child protection cases and assist in managing cases on placement. It helps professional practitioners in managing the anxieties associated with their current case load and provides strategies to manage these unfortunately common workplace experiences.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brian Atkins BSc, CQSW, MBA has had a long career in social care as a practitioner, manager, trainer and independent consultant. He worked extensively in local authority child and adult protection, leaving care, residential care and youth offending, where he contributed to the national design and development of this service.

As an independent consultant he worked with organisations at a strategic level in organisational and systems development, including collaborations with senior academics on the development of the Front Door model for children’s Services. His company, ETC, was included in the register of recommended providers under the government’s Children Services Improvement Plan.

Brian has had a long term interest in the importance of personal safety for practitioners, and in supporting their ability to work effectively in challenging environments. He worked with government initiatives including the ‘Safer Place’ Task force. Within ETC he provided training in personal safety and constructive behaviour management for social care staff and managers.

He remains actively involved in the sport of judo, coaching regularly and is the chair of his local club. He is proud to be contributing to this life changing activity, and enjoys seeing the personal development of children and adults who take up the sport.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Critical Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909330337
• ISBN 13: 9781909330337
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible