This thoroughly revised Second Edition of Effective Child Protection is essential reading for anyone concerned with improving child protection practice. Illustrated with detailed case studies throughout, the book looks at reasoning skills and provides practical advice on how to make better judgments and decisions in child protection work. Building on the strengths of the first edition, it has been updated to include: an account of how intuition, emotion, and analytic thinking are combined in practice; an analysis of how the nature of a task determines what combination of intuition, emotion and analytic thinking is needed; an updated chapter on how child protection workers can detect errors; additional material on how organizations can promote good reasoning skills; howto understand more easily the results of risk assessment instruments.
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-4695-7
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés