Client Violence in Social Work Practice
Prevention, Intervention, and Research
Newhill, Christina E.
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BOOK SUMMARY
Presenting practical strategies for violence assessment and prevention that are grounded in solid empirical research, this book helps practitioners and agencies provide state-of-the-art treatment to aggressive clients while reducing violence risks. Effect
BOOK SYNOPSIS
Presenting practical strategies for violence assessment and prevention that are grounded in solid empirical research, this book helps practitioners and agencies provide state-of-the-art treatment to aggressive clients while reducing violence risks. Effective methods are described together with specific recommendations for approaching, engaging, and intervening with violent clients in both office and field settings. Skills development exercises and guidelines for developing and implementing an agency safety plan enhance the book's utility as a training tool and professional resource.
AUTHOR BIO
Christina E. Newhill, PhD, LCSW, is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches in the direct practice mental health specialization. With over 10 years of community mental health practice experience, Dr. Newhill is Principal Investigator on several research studies focusing on violent behavior and risk assessment. She has conducted training workshops on violence in the workplace at the local, state, and national levels for many years.
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BOOK REVIEWS
"Most of us who oversee social work field education programs are acutely and consistently aware of the risks inherent in social work practice. Indeed, the Tri-State Consortium of Field Directors has been on a resolute quest for a perspective that would address client violence against social workers, and that would meet our criteria for scientific evidence. Christina Newhill's scholarly approach provides that gold standard. This book is an essential addition to the libraries of every social worker and social service agency, as well as every social work student, practice professor, and field director. Moreover, no administrator should allow another day to pass without instituting Newhill's policy and strategy recommendations."--Sharon C. Lyter, PhD, LCSW, School of Social Work, Southern Region, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
"Newhill's book is a masterful balance of insight, clinical experience, and rigorous research. It should be required reading for clinical or direct practice social workers who intervene with clients in the fields of substance abuse, criminal justice, child welfare, mental health, or any related field where angry or potentially violent clients are encountered."--Lambert Maguire, PhD, LSW, ACSW, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh
"This book is a true tour de force, an admirable integration of research findings and clinical wisdom. Newhill recognizes that predicting and managing violence is an inherent part of social work practice, and instead of shying away from the complexities of this task, she presents invaluable information about how to address this challenge effectively. The book mixes sound reviews of available research with solid suggestions for improving practice with potentially violent clients. Newhill's extensive clinical experience and her in-depth knowledge of the research shine through and complement each other very well here. The book manages to be scholarly, engaging, and instructive, all at the same time. It is an extremely valuable teaching tool for systematically introducing social work graduate students to a potentially overwhelming topic."/m-/Edward P. Mulvey, PhD, Law and Psychiatry Program, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Social work students, practitioners, administrators, and educators: Read this book!...Newhill highlights an important subject that is frequently neglected both in agency policies, and in social work classrooms....an instructive volume that is both scholarly and readable....evidence-based and practical, and is a very well-written ground breaking book on a subject that has been the object of professional denial for far too long."--Families in Society
"...the book has much to offer many of us working in the field of mental health, whether that be in a residential, in-home support, mental health clinic, hospital or private practice setting....A great deal of detail is provided on the types of violent attacks, threats, locations, and descriptions and classifications of client motivation and personality features....I can see myself utilizing several of these sections in my professional practice....I could see this being a valuable tool for individual, group and team development....Newhill never loses sight of the client's needs throughout the book."--Child & Family
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1593850387
ISBN(13-digit): 9781593850388
Copyright: 2004
Dewey Decimal: 361.3/2/0289
Library of Congress: 2002151981
Book Publisher: Guilford Pubn
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 278
Paper Weight (lb): 0.86
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