Martin Smith

Surviving Fears in Health and Social Care

The Terrors of Night and the Arrows of Day

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on powerful first-hand accounts, this book explores the fears experienced when working in child protection, mental health, and with marginalized groups of people, and suggests how these fears can be understood and managed. The author provides helpful suggestions for good practice and training.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781843101802
• ISBN-10: 1843101807
• Artikelnr.: 21566601

Autorenporträt

Martin Smith is practitioner-manager of a Social Services Emergency Duty Team. In this role he works with service users of all ages, particularly in the fields of mental health and child protection. He has researched and published widely on fear and stress in health and social care settings.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Emerging Importance of Fear in Health and Social Care. 1. Reasons to be Fearful. 2. Child Care and Child Protection Work in Community Settings. 3. Mental Health Work. 4. Working with Dangerous and Vulnerable Adults in Community Settings. 5. Residential and Institutional Settings. 6. Complaints
Bureaucracies and Workplace Bullying. 7. What Helps? I: Colleagues
Supervision
Family. 8. What Helps? II: Management
Workplace Culture
Police Involvement
Reflection
Humour
Research. Afterword: The Gift of Fear. References. Indexes.