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Governing Risk: Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work, Mark Hardy

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Sam Baeza, Governing Risk: Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work, Mark Hardy, The British Journal of Social Work , Volume 47, Issue 5, July 2017, Pages 1593–1594, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcw055

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The literature of social work is replete with titles that have risk as their starting point. A cursory look at the published material shows that, in the main, there are three themes that emerge strongly: the political and social (e.g. Webb, 2006), the theoretical (e.g. Parton, 2006) and the practitioner/how to themes (e.g. Calder, 2008).

This book is different in that it approaches the field from both a theoretical and a practical stance. The book, although concise in size, is big on intent and this perhaps is its major weakness in that it possibly tries to be too ambitious in its aims. This (and the author acknowledges it) is apparent in the first chapters, which try to encapsulate both a short history of social work and the rise of risk within it, taking a look at ideas from Beck, Giddens and Douglas. I was left wanting a little more and was quite disappointed by the lack of references used in the writing. This lack of references was evident in a number of other sections and was for me as a reader a significant shortcoming in that, if the book is to be fully recommended to students, then more guidance as to where the ideas ‘come from’ and where to go for further reading is important, particularly given the fact that the book discusses the idea of how and when practitioners use (or not) theoretical knowledge.

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Effective approaches to risk assessment in social work : an international literature review

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The study of ‘risk’ in social work involves complex interplay between human behaviour, emotion, evidence of fact, professional values and organisational systems. This book brings together contributions from key social work researchers and theorists from the UK, USA, New Zealand and Italy, writing with a focus on aspects of risk within social work. It examines key debates concerning risk in contemporary social work practice, including ethical dilemmas, approaches to decision-making and the challenges of ignorance and errors. Contributions range from the perennial challenges of how one uses formal knowledge when assessing risk to emerging risks arising from the counterterrorism agenda. This book will enable practitioners, policy makers and researchers to appreciate the complexities of risk in different settings and apply this understanding to their own practice.

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Chapter | 4  pages, introduction, chapter | 15  pages, avoidable ignorance and the ethics of risk in child welfare, in defence of actuarialism: interrogating the logic of risk in social work practice, chapter | 21  pages, comparing risk-averse and risk-friendly practitioners in child welfare decision-making: a mixed methods study, chapter | 14  pages, making sense of the initial home visit: the role of intuition in child and family social workers’ assessments of risk, mental health act assessments – professional narratives on alternatives to hospital admission, ‘risk is king and needs to take a backseat’ can social workers’ experiences of moral injury strengthen practice, a risky time for muslim families: professionalised counter-radicalisation networks, chapter | 12  pages, reflective practice, risk and mistakes in social work.

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Risk Management in Social Work by Frederic G. Reamer LAST REVIEWED: 25 August 2021 LAST MODIFIED: 25 August 2021 DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389678-0019

Social workers face several possible risks when they provide services to individuals, couples, families, small groups, communities, and organizations. Risk that is managed skillfully and professionally protects clients, third parties, social workers, and social workers’ employers. Risk that is managed poorly can harm clients and others. Parties that believe they have been harmed by social workers may file lawsuits and formal complaints with state licensing boards and professional associations. Some risks arise when social workers do not adhere to prevailing ethical standards in the profession and pertinent laws and regulations. Others arise when social workers fail to obtain or use proper education and training or when they are impaired. Key risks involve client rights, informed consent, confidentiality and privileged communication, conflicts of interest, boundary issues and dual relationships, high-risk interventions, use of technology, consultation, supervision, documentation, and termination of services.

Social workers can consult several useful publications and resources to help them grasp key concepts related to risk management, professional negligence, standards of care, and licensing and regulatory standards. Bucky, et al. 2009 ; Kavaler and Alexander 2014 ; Nakamura and Carroll 2011a ; Nakamura and Carroll 2011b ; and Nakamura and Carroll 2011c provide useful, comprehensive overviews of the concept of risk management in settings that provide health and mental health services. Hart 2014 focuses specifically on clinical challenges involving high-risk clients who pose a threat to themselves or others. Reamer 2001 examines risk management issues in social work. Reamer 2015 provides a comprehensive overview of risk management issues in social work and practical strategies to protect clients and prevent malpractice claims, liability, and disciplinary proceedings. Rome 2013 ; Saltzman, et al. 2016 ; and Slater and Finck 2012 provide broad overviews of the relevance of law in social work practice.

Bucky, Steven, Joanne Callan, and George Stricker, eds. 2009. Ethical and legal issues for mental health professionals in forensic settings . New York: Routledge.

This anthology provides a valuable overview of ethical and legal issues that arise in child custody cases, preparation of forensic reports, and civil lawsuits. Clinicians and attorneys offer practical advice for clinicians who serve as expert witnesses and who testify in depositions and courtrooms. The book includes a summary of common malpractice claims and regulatory board actions.

Hart, Chris. 2014. A pocket guide to risk assessment and management in mental health . Abingdon, UK, and New York: Routledge.

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A useful overview of risk-management issues and challenges involved in the assessment of high-risk clients. Focuses on issues related to suicide, self-harm, and dangerousness. Provides a practical discussion of clinical skills practitioners can use to prevent risk.

Kavaler, Florence, and Raymond Alexander, eds. 2014. Risk management in health care institutions: A strategic approach . 3d ed. Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

A valuable introduction to the concept of risk management and the topics of quality assurance, risk-management strategies and protocols, professional standards, regulations, ethics, and malpractice. This comprehensive text explores risk-management issues in various settings, such as psychiatric hospitals, medical hospitals, nursing homes, home care programs, and managed care organizations.

Nakamura, Peggy, and Roberta Carroll, eds. 2011a. Risk management handbook for health care organizations . Vol. 1, The essentials . 6th ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

The first volume of a three-volume set provides a comprehensive introduction to the concept of risk management, legal concepts, development of a risk management program, ethical issues, documentation, and information technology.

Nakamura, Peggy, and Roberta Carroll, eds. 2011b. Risk management handbook for health care organizations . Vol. 2, Clinical risk . 6th ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

The second volume of a three-volume set provides a comprehensive introduction to client safety, crisis management, research issues, behavioral health, critical care, home care, and long-term care.

Nakamura, Peggy, and Roberta Carroll, eds. 2011c. Risk management handbook for health care organizations . Vol. 3, Business risk: Legal, regulatory & technology issues . 6th ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

The third volume of a three-volume set provides a comprehensive introduction to risk mapping, managed care, employment practices liability, advertising liability, claims and litigation management, information technology, statutes and regulations, standards, and privacy.

Reamer, Frederic G. 2001. The social work ethics audit: A risk management tool . Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers.

Provides step-by-step instructions for social workers who want to conduct a comprehensive ethics audit. Reamer summarizes the nature and purposes of an ethics audit and provides a comprehensive outline of issues to examine in an audit.

Reamer, Frederic G. 2015. Risk management in social work: Preventing professional malpractice, liability, and disciplinary action . New York: Columbia Univ. Press.

Provides in-depth discussion of risk areas in social work that can lead to ethics complaints and malpractice claims. The author highlights impairment issues and provides an overview of pertinent ethical and legal concepts, summarizes common risks, and reviews relevant ethical standards in social work.

Rome, Sunny. 2013. Social work and law: Judicial policy and forensic practice . Boston: Pearson.

This book provides an overview of the ways in which social work and the law intersect. Rome discusses basic legal concepts that are relevant to social work. The author distinguishes among pertinent statutory, case, and regulatory laws.

Saltzman, Andrea, David Furman, and Kathleen Ohman. 2016. Law in social work practice . 3d ed. Boston: Cengage.

This text includes discussions focused on key risk-management issues in social work. Topics include social work regulation, licensing board complaints, exceptions to client confidentiality, boundary issues, documentation, termination of services, impaired practice, malpractice and liability, criminal liability, and liability insurance.

Slater, Lyn, and Kara Finck. 2012. Social work practice and the law . New York: Springer.

The authors provide a thorough review of the ways in which social workers can address clients’ needs in diverse legal contexts. The authors’ discussion of the role of social work in civil proceedings is especially helpful to practitioners concerned about risk management.

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  1. Full article: Understanding Risk in Social Work

    The study of 'risk' in social work is a fundamental topic of interest to this journal, where there is a complex interplay between human behaviour, emotion, evidence of fact, professional values and organisational systems. This special issue includes articles from esteemed social work researchers and theorists from around the globe, writing ...

  2. Reflective Practice And Risk Analysis Social Work Essay

    This essay will, initially, explore and demonstrate a critical understanding of the key concepts of risk assessment and risk management. It will then provide an analysis of the political, cultural and social contexts that shape practice in relation to risk management. Following this, a critical appreciation of the concept of risk decision ...

  3. Risk Assessment in Social Work

    Risk can be described as a 'hazard, or a chance/likelihood of a loss or a particular event to occur' (Collins, 2012), which can appear as a great uncertainty in relation to social work when intervening in people's lives. Over the years this has been more formalised by statistical probability and structured assessment tools to guide ...

  4. Risk in Social Work Practice: Current Issues

    Abstract. The study of 'risk' in social work involves complex interplay between human behaviour, emotion, evidence of fact, professional values and organisational systems. This book brings ...

  5. Managing Risk and Uncertainty in Social Work: A Literature Review

    Abstract. •. *Summary: This review, which draws mainly but not exclusively on UK material, explores the social work literature on managing risk and uncertainty, with emphasis on community care. Risk has become a major, if not over-arching, preoccupation in social work, reflected in a huge upsurge of written material. •.

  6. Making Sense of Risk: Social Work at the Boundary between Care and

    Authors contribution statement. Brian Taylor and Mary Baginsky led the writing of the section about assessment and care planning at the care and control boundary; Jim Campbell and Jane Shears led the writing of the section about mental health social work; Duncan Helm and Andrew Whittaker led the writing of the section about child and family social work; Campbell Killick led the writing of the ...

  7. Effective Approaches to Risk Assessment in Social Work: An

    The meaning of risk can be described as calculation of probabilities of events, both positive and negative. Barry (2007) describes that, in case of social work, risk is associated with negativity ...

  8. 'Speaking Back' to Fear: Responding to the Moral Dilemmas of Risk in

    Hence, the argument of the critical social work risk literature is that social workers have adopted a more defensive and morally timid position in response to the pervasive and insidious political and moral conservatism of neo-liberal risk society. The critical perspective of risk in social work is a relatively recent addition to our literature.

  9. PDF Understanding Risk in Social Work

    Risk is often defined in terms of the probability of harm occurring (Gigeren-zer 2014); although in social work practice, the concept is far more multi-faceted. The profession is concerned with the seriousness of (i.e. negative value placed on) the particular harm as well as its likelihood. When we consider 'risky situations' in terms of ...

  10. Risk Rationalities in Contemporary Social Work Policy and Practice

    Introduction. Grand claims are made for the impact of the 'risk society', not least in social work. The spectre of the anxious citizen living in a highly unpredictable and uncertain world is easily outlined by many commentators, as are general contentions that we are living in a post-welfare, risk-infused state (Beck, 1992, 2005, 2009; Furedi, 2008; Giddens, 1991; see Kemshall, 2002, for a ...

  11. Reflective Practice And Risk Social Work Essay

    The assignment will start with a brief outline of the practice experience that will be referred to and will explore the social, cultural and political concepts that shape practice in relation to risk. The concepts of risk, risk assessment and risk management will be examined along with what makes them good. The assignment will then explore how ...

  12. Governing Risk: Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work, Mark

    Chapters 3 and 4 really set this book apart. Chapter 3 offers a lucid, engaging and well-argued account of the evolution of social work within mental health, with a clear account of the rise and fall of asylums. The chapter looks at how risk has changed the way in which social work is both viewed and practised within this setting.

  13. Effective approaches to risk assessment in social work : an

    This report offers an international review of the literature (including refereed journal articles, policy documents, books and commissioned reports) within predominantly English-speaking countries about risk assessment in social work. The literature review includes an analysis of key research, policy, previously undertaken literature reviews and other relevant documentation primarily in the UK ...

  14. Reflective Practice, Risk and Mistakes in Social Work

    Journal of Social Work Practice Psychotherapeutic Approaches in Health, Welfare and the Community Volume 31, 2017 - Issue 4 : Risk in Social Work

  15. Risk in Social Work Practice

    The study of 'risk' in social work involves complex interplay between human behaviour, emotion, evidence of fact, professional values and organisational systems. This book brings together contributions from key social work researchers and theorists from the UK, USA, New Zealand and Italy, writing with a focus on aspects of risk within ...

  16. Risk Management in Social Work

    A pocket guide to risk assessment and management in mental health. Abingdon, UK, and New York: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/97802037955. A useful overview of risk-management issues and challenges involved in the assessment of high-risk clients. Focuses on issues related to suicide, self-harm, and dangerousness.

  17. Risk Assessment

    TITTERTON, M., (2005) Risk and risk taking in health and social welfare, London: Jessica Kingsley WEBB, S. (2002) Evidence-based practice and decision analysis in social work - an implementation model, British Journal of Social Work, 2, 45-63. WEBB, S., (2007) Risk. Social Work and Society, 4, 2, 379- 382. 8

  18. Risk at the boundaries of social work a special issue of Health, Risk

    Risk is a central theme in social work. Some scholars take a normative approach, looking at the strengths and weaknesses of risk assessments and how they can be best applied. ... CALL FOR PAPERS. Risk at the boundaries of social work a special issue of Health, Risk & Society. Rory Crath a Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA Correspondence ...

  19. Risk Assessment Case Study

    Risk Assessment Case Study. C is a 14 year old boy who has a diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorder and learning disability. C is a very active young boy. His mother is a P.E teacher and has him involved in many outdoor activities. C loves being outdoors and doing practical 'hands on' things such as cooking and outdoor activities.

  20. The Processes Managing Risk With Vulnerable People Social Work Essay

    Kemshall (2002) argued that social work is predominantly concerned with handling and assessing risk instead of focusing on social need and justice. It is argued in "Social Work in a Risk Society" that, as a response to risk, the reconfigurations between state, politics, science and people are particularly felt in world of social work (Webb ...

  21. Managing risk: social workers' intervention strategies in cases of

    Researchers have begun to apply theories of risk to social work and domestic abuse, particularly concerning practice and policy relating to safeguarding children (see, Peckover, Citation 2014) or in theoretical essays aimed at informing risk assessment practice (Dixon & Robb, Citation 2016). However, to our knowledge, no published empirical ...

  22. Impact Of Theories Relating To Risk Social Work Essay

    The notion of 'Culture Theory' developed by Mary Douglas (1966, 1798) and Douglas and Wildavsky (1982) has been influential in looking at perspectives on risk. Cultural theory aims to explain how personality and cultural traits influence risk perceptions and why different people and social groups fear different risks.

  23. Professional judgement and decision-making in social work

    The first focused upon risk in social work (Whittaker & Taylor, 2017) and this special issue focuses upon professional judgement and decision-making. It consists of eight articles across a range of countries and settings that examine key issues that are relevant to practitioners and managers as well as researchers and policy-makers.