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Personal Safety for Social Workers and Health Professionals (Critical Skills for Social Work) by Brian Atkins is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Personal Safety for Social Workers and Health Professionals (Critical Skills for Social Work) about?

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 jud

Author

Brian Atkins

Publisher

Critical Publishing Ltd

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781909330337

Subjects

Medical, Science, Social Science