This is an essential, practical guide to best practice in adult safeguarding which supports students and practitioners to develop the skills, knowledge and ethical awareness to confidently address the challenges of adult safeguarding across a wide range of practice contexts in the UK.
The authors explore the current context of adult safeguarding in the UK, together with the legislation, rights and principles that are the basis of best practice, and with a focus on developments in practice following the implementation of the Care Act (2014).
Practitioners are supported to develop their practice by exploring new research and innovative ways of working within the field, while promoting the importance of learning from experience and building resilience in adult safeguarding work. This book includes:
• helpful case studies and examples of professional decision making from experienced adult safeguarding practitioners
• top tips and models to enable confident application of knowledge to practice
• tools for reflection to extend the practitioner’s development
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction
Part 1: The Context of Adult Safeguarding
2. Human Rights: The Principles that Inform Adult Safeguarding
3. Adult Safeguarding Legislation
4. Mental Capacity and Adult Safeguarding
5. Definitions in Adult Safeguarding
Part 2: Good adult safeguarding practice
6. Relationships, Values and Ethics
7. Assessment of Risk
8. Decision Making in Adult Safeguarding
9. Adult Safeguarding Enquiries
10. Recovery and Resolution
11. References
12. Statute, Case Law, Serious Case Reviews and Safeguarding Adults Reviews
13. Index
Über den Autor
Rachel Hubbard is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of the West of England, module leader for their Best Interests Assessment module and a practising Best Interests Assessor.Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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