Rights, Risks and Responsibilities Interprofessional Working in Health and Social Care

by Koubel, Georgina; Bungay, Hilary

• ISBN13: 9780230282889
• ISBN10: 0230282881
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

This text offers discussion, challenges, and case studies that enable reflection upon the complexities of working with vulnerable people. It helps students and practitioners to be aware of their own values, knowledge and power, in order to manage the balance between rights and risks while maintaining a focus on their responsibilities.

Author Biography

Georgina Koubel is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Hilary Bungay is a Senior Lecturer in Interprofessional learning at Anglia Ruskin University UK. Together they edited The Challenge of Person-Centred Care. An Interprofessional Perspective(Palgrave,2009).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Theoretical Concepts and Constructs	p. 7
Rights and Responsibilities	p. 9
Rights, Risks and Healthy Choices	p. 25
Rights, Risks and Responsibilities in an Age of Uncertainty	p. 43
Theory in Practice	p. 63
Managing Risk in a Complex Society	p. 65
Upholding the Rights of People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities	p. 83
Risk, Informed Practice and the Non-specialist Practitioner: Towards More Effective Work with Those Who Misuse Substances	p. 101
Taking Relationships into Account in Mental Health Services	p. 123
Interprofessional Working to Safeguard and Protect Children	p. 142
Interprofessional Working and the Community Care Conundrum	p. 159
Responsibilities and Accountabilities in Interprofessional Working	p. 179
Critical Reflections on Balancing Rights, Risks and Responsibilities	p. 195
Conclusion	p. 213
Index	p. 217
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