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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mike titterton”
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  • Risk and Risk Taking in Health and Social Welfare

    by Mike Titterton ...
    How can a social worker assess the risk that an older person with dementia faces? How would a nurse or housing support worker decide on the balance between danger and safety? In cases of potentially serious harm, as in the examples of abused children or sex offenders, can risk taking work? In this practical and accessible book, Mike Titterton offers an innovative model of risk work in health and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Good Practice in Assessing Risk

    Current Knowledge, Issues and Approaches

    by Jon Glasby, Martin C. Calder, Kerry Baker, Karen Broadhurst, Jennie Fleming, Thilo Boeck, Georgia Barnett, Andrew Pithouse, Amanda Robinson, Sue Peckover, Gillian Kelly, Rosemary Littlechild, Tony Maden, Ruth Mann, Chris Hall, Sue White, David Wastell, Jason Wood, Mike Titterton ...
    Series series Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice
    Maintaining a balance between managing and assessing risk and upholding the required high standards of practice in health and social care can be demanding, particularly in the current climate of increased preoccupation with the difficult tensions between rights, protection and risk-taking.Good Practice in Assessing Risk is a comprehensive guide to good practice for those working with risk, ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • Inside Man

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  • A Social Laboratory for Modern France

    The Musée Social and the Rise of the Welfare State

    by Janet R. Horne ...
    As a nineteenth-century think tank that sought answers to France’s pressing “social question,” the Musée Social reached across political lines to forge a reformist alliance founded on an optimistic faith in social science. In A Social Laboratory for Modern France Janet R. Horne presents the story of this institution, offering a nuanced explanation of how, despite centuries of deep ideological ... Read more

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  • A Practitioners' Tool for Child Protection and the Assessment of Parents

    by Jeff Fowler ...
    A practical tool for the assessment of children and their families, this guide enables professionals to make informed decisions about child protection issues. Firmly rooted in current practice, it draws on the expertise of a practising consultant and experienced qualified social worker Jeff Fowler, whose work has already formed the basis of guidance reports for child protection agencies and court ... Read more

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  • Rose's Strategy of Preventive Medicine

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