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Facing Danger in the Helping Professions: A Skilled Approach

Facing Danger in the Helping Professions: A Skilled Approach

Bourne, Iain

Paperback

ManagementGifts & Stationery GeneralPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 0335245838
ISBN13: 9780335245833
Publisher: Open Univ Pr
Published: Apr 16 2013
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
Do you face dangerous behaviour in your work?
How equipped are you to deal with whatever might be thrown at you?

Dangerous behaviour is a very real threat to practitioners working across the helping professions. This innovative, accessible and theoretically informed book deals with the types of dangerous behaviour that helping professionals are likely to encounter and provides strategies and skills for dealing with these situations.

Written for both students and practitioners in various disciplines, the book focuses on the immediate face-to-face management of interpersonal danger. Case studies allow the reader to place themselves in the incident and to reflect on what they might be thinking, feeling and doing in a given situation.

Based on the author's dangerous behaviour training courses, this invaluable book will enable helping professionals to implement good practice while dealing with the stress, confusion, fear and anxiety that dangerous situations give rise to.

Written for professionals who may experience violence in the course of their work, this book is - unusually - not about helping the violent person become less violent (worthy though that goal undoubtedly is) but about helping the professional to be safe. In this, it is a welcome addition to the literature on social work. Social workers, nurses, care staff and others are often expected to work in tense, fraught situations in which emotions can run high. This book is unique in offering practical tips to help guide professionals in responding to threatening and violent behaviour.

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