Decision Making in Social Work

At a time when accountability and the avoidance of risk are increasingly demanded of social work practitioners, the ability to make clear and reasoned professional decisions is essential. This welcome new edition provides a supportive framework for making social work judgements and assessments based on a structured and practical approach.

Woven through with practice scenarios applicable to the many facets of social work, this text emphasizes the importance of good decision making to high-quality social work practice. Reassuringly clear throughout, this new addition to the BASW Practical Social Work series is core reading for all involved in the field of social work, whether as students, academics, practitioners or managers.

TERENCE O'SULLIVAN is Principal Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Lincoln, UK. An experienced practitioner, academic and researcher, he has taught and written extensively on decision making in social work practice.