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Safeguarding Adults: Key Themes and Issues - Softcover

MacIntyre, Gillian

 
9781137381002: Safeguarding Adults: Key Themes and Issues
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1137381000 ISBN 13: 9781137381002
Verlag: Red Globe Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Safeguarding adults is a rapidly evolving area of professional practice and this timely new text book provides an authoritative guide that critically engages with the recent developments and encapsulates some of the emerging approaches to contemporary adult safeguarding practice. Written by a collection of authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience, and with a strong focus on multi-disciplinary working, the text covers key topics such as:
- Safeguarding adults who lack capacity, or whose level of capacity is unknown or unclear
- Common issues and tensions surrounding the various UK laws and policies that seek to safeguard adults with mental health problems
- Safeguarding older adults, with a unique and insightful focus on the perspective of carers
-Current limitations in practice, including the blurred nature of the boundaries between informal and legally mandated care, relating to the safeguarding of people with learning disabilities.

Illustrated throughout by engaging case studies to help readers apply what they have learnt to everyday practice, this comprehensive guide to safeguarding adults is essential reading for students across a broad range of health and social care disciplines, as well as practitioners looking for an up-to-date source of reference.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Gillian MacIntyre is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Ailsa Stewart is Course Leader on the Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Social Work at the University of Strathclyde, UK.

Pearse McCusker is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Co-Lead on the Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

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Safeguarding adults is a rapidly evolving area of professional practice. Already complex and contested in terms of definitions and application, it has been further problematised by significant legal and policy developments, both nationally and internationally.

Written by a collection of authors with a wealth of academic and practice experience, this authoritative new guide critically engages with the recent developments in, and encapsulates some of the emerging approaches to, contemporary adult safeguarding practice.

With a strong focus on multi-disciplinary working, the text covers topics such as:

  • Safeguarding adults who lack capacity, or whose level of capacity is unknown or unclear.
  • Common issues and tensions surrounding the various UK laws and policies that seek to safeguard adults with mental health problems.
  • Safeguarding older adults, with a unique and insightful focus on the perspective of carers.
  • Current limitation
s in practice, including the blurred nature of the boundaries between informal and legally mandated care, relating to the safeguarding of people with learning disabilities. Illustrated throughout by engaging case studies to help readers apply what they have learnt to everyday practice, this comprehensive guide to safeguarding adults is essential reading for students across a broad range of health and social care disciplines, as well as practitioners looking for an up-to-date source of reference.

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Verlag
Red Globe Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1137381000
ISBN 13 
9781137381002
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
228
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