Working with Violence: Policies and Practices in Risk Assessment and Management

ISBN-13: 9781403943071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 224 str.

Steve Myers

Opis

Practitioners are faced with a wide range of theories of violence that influence policy development, training and professional responses to managing violence. This book examines current explanatory theories of violence, how these theoretical positions infl

Spis treści

Introduction.- Assessing Violence.- Grief and Loss: Psychodynamic Approaches.- Wrong-thinking: Cognitive Behavioural Approaches.- Challenging Men Supporting Women: Feminist Approaches.- 'Mad and Bad': Mentally Disordered Offenders.- Constructing Solutions: Solution Focused Approaches.- Deconstructing Problems: Narrative Approaches.- Conclusion: Towards Effective Practices with Violence.- References.

O autorze

STEVE MYERS is Director of the Salford Centre for Social Work Research. He has practised as a social worker in youth justice and child protection, and has been involved in research into violence. He is active in exploring the use of solution-focused and narrative approaches in social work contexts.

JUDITH MILNER is a freelance solutions practitioner, trainer, consultant and writer. Previously a lecturer in social work, she now acts as an independent expert, therapist and consultant in child protection, domestic violence and sex offender cases, including anger management programmes, adults and children who have experienced violence, and juvenile sex offenders.