187 Pages
by
Routledge
187 Pages
by
Routledge
187 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1982, Risk and Social Work provides a useful framework for analysing risk in the social welfare context. Surprisingly, social work and other helping professions have hitherto given little attention to the use and meaning of ‘risk’, although the term is frequently employed, with clients and helpers being described as ‘at risk’, or ‘in danger’. The media have taken up these... Read more
Foreword Preface Introduction 1. The nature of risk 2. Risk in social work 3. Acceptability, accountability and responsibility 4. Towards a framework for risk analysis 5. Risk assessment: prediction and uncertainty 6. Risk management 7. Concluding Bibliography Index
Biography
C. Paul Brearley
