- Title
- Suicide and intimate partner violence risk assessment and decision-making
- Creator
- Kellie, Grant; Louisa, Whitwam; Jennifer, Martin; Jennifer, White; Terry, Haines
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/194855
- Identifier
- vital:18426
- Identifier
- ISSN:1329-0584
- Abstract
- This research explores the question: 'How do social workers and multidisciplinary mental health professionals perceive and understand risk and how does this inform decision-making and service provision?' In-depth face-to-face interviews were conducted with health and mental health workers employed at a major health service based in Melbourne, Australia. Participants were employed in hospitals, community health centres, and residential care facilities including specialist mental health services. Theoretic thematic analysis was used to identify seven dominant themes reported by study participants. These were: (1) establishing risk ownership (2) a hierarchy of fears (3) self-doubt and self-blame (4) organisational incident reviews (5) blame from client, family and society (6) the protective shield and (7) evaluating safety and meaning. The study findings have implications for further research and social work education on risk assessment, decision-making and appropriate social work responses. [Author abstract]
- Publisher
- Australian and New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education and Research
- Relation
- Advances in social work and welfare education Vol. 23, no. 1 (2021), p. 134-147
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © Australian and New Zealand Social Work and Welfare Education and Research, 2021
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy; 4409 Social work; Decision making; Family violence; Higher education; Interviews; Intimate partner violence; Mental health; Mental health programs; Mental health services; Prevention; Psychological patterns; Risk assessment; Social work; Social work education; Social workers; Suicide
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