Stress, trauma, and decision-making for social workers

Social workers regularly make high-risk, high-impact decisions: determining that a child has been abused; that an individual may take their own life; or that someone with a history of violence poses harm to another. Cheryl Regehr explores the intersection between workplace stress, trauma exposure, a...

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Main Author: Regehr, Cheryl,
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2018.
Physical Description: x, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Stress and trauma in social work
  • Factors contributing to trauma response
  • Factors contributing to stress response
  • Competence and expertise
  • Decision-making
  • Stress, trauma and decision-making
  • Mitigating the effects of stress and trauma on decision-making
  • Improving decision-making in situations of uncertainty.