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| fixed length control field |
02585nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| ISBN |
9780231538435 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
344.730313 |
| Item number |
R2886 2015 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME |
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| Personal name |
Reamer, Frederic G., 1953- author. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Risk management in social work : preventing professional malpractice, liability, and disciplinary action / Frederic G. Reamer. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
New York : |
| Name of publisher |
Columbia University Press, |
| Year of publication |
©2015. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Number of Pages |
1 online resource, ix, 367 pages. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Professional risk management : an overview -- Professional malpractice and liability -- Key concepts in risk management -- The elements of malpractice and liability -- Process versus outcome and the standard of care -- Damages in liability cases -- Confidentiality and privileged communication -- The delivery of services -- Clients' rights -- Informed consent -- Clinical assessment and intervention -- Negligent intervention -- Boundary issues and dual relationships -- Managing boundary risks -- Undue influence -- Suicide -- Involuntary civil commitment -- Protective services -- Defamation of character -- Digital technology and social media -- Impaired social workers -- The nature of impairment -- Extent of impairment -- Causes of impairment -- Sexual abuse of clients -- Practitioner substance abuse -- Response to impairment -- Risk management strategy -- The challenge for social work -- Supervision: clients and staff -- Client supervision -- Staff supervision -- Supervision case law -- Supervision of volunteers -- Liability and social work education -- Preventing supervisory liability -- Consultation, referral, documentation, and records -- Consultation in social work -- Referral in social work -- Social work documentation and records -- Evolution of social work standards -- Risk management standards and guidelines -- Deception and fraud -- Self-interested deception and fraud -- Deception and fraud motivated by altruism -- Termination of service -- The concept of abandonment -- Premature termination -- Prevention strategy -- Responding to lawsuits and ethics complaints: the role of prevention -- In the event of a lawsuit or licensing board complaint -- The role of the expert witness -- Preventing lawsuits and licensing board complaints: good practice -- Preventing lawsuits and licensing board complaints: good ethics -- Ethical dilemmas and decision making -- Conducting an ethics audit. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Social workers--Malpractice--United States. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical Term |
Social workers--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Electronic Books |
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