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Managing Client Violence: A Practical Guide for Social Workers


Credit(s): 7.5 Social Work
Course Number: NATPRESS051
Access: Available for 5 months after Registration
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    PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING – You are registering for credits ONLY. In order to complete this course and claim the credits, you must separately purchase and read Managing Client Violence: A Practical Guide for Social Workers, from NASW Press, then complete an exam. After you purchase the credits on the Social Work Online CE Institute, navigate to your My Products page and click the green Play button to purchase the publication from NASW Press. Once you have read the publication, navigate back to your My Products page and click the blue Get Certificate button to complete the exam. Please only attempt to complete the exam after you have separately purchased and read the publication.

    Violence and threats of violence by clients against social workers are all too common in social work practice, and the impact can be devastating for everyone involved. Those who work directly with the public are at risk of harassment, verbal abuse, threats of harm, physical assault, and even death at the hands of their clients. Social workers today are expected to do more with fewer resources, and many clients feel desperate, frightened, hopeless, powerless, and angry. Sometimes, clients feel their only recourse is to lash out.

     

    Client violence is not inevitable, however, even for those who work in high-risk environments. With proper planning and training, social workers can increase their safety, de-escalate potentially violent situations, respond effectively to violent acts, and work to prevent outcomes that may lead to violence.

     

    Managing Client Violence: A Practical Guide for Social Workers is the ultimate resource for social workers and agencies concerned with staff safety. Using an ecological approach, Christina E. Newhill provides strategies for predicting violence, establishing a rapport with aggressive and violent clients, and treating violent clients through various interventions.

     

    With social worker safety in mind, this unique guide offers procedures for assessing risk in practice settings; enhancing environmental safety; and developing safety policies and plans for office, home, and community visits. When violence does occur, the author provides self-defense strategies that do not require specialized training but can reduce the risk of physical harm. The book also addresses the psychological and emotional impact of experiencing violence, including primary and secondary traumatic stress reactions, the stages of trauma resolution, and the important role of professional self-care in maintaining well-being and preventing burnout.

     

    This concise how-to guide can be kept in the office for easy reference or stored in the car to brush up on safety skills before home visits. Filled with case studies, easy-to-follow steps, and sample illustrative dialogues, this guide is a lifesaving resource for both individual social workers seeking security and agencies that are responsible for designing trainings, orientations, and safety protocols for their staff.


    Learning Objectives:

    • Recognize and describe how and why client violence is an issue for social work practice, which settings are high risk, and the types of incidents that occur.
    • Describe the latest knowledge about the causes and motivation behind client violence, the clinical, historical, and environmental risk factors associated with violent behavior, and best practices for conducting a violence risk assessment.
    • Demonstrate how to approach and engage aggressive clients and utilize intervention modalities that are effective in treating such clients.
    • Employ strategies to prevent client violence in office and community settings ethically and within legal requirements and parameters.
    • Implement strategies for self-care to mitigate the negative impacts of experiencing client violence at the individual and organizational levels.
    7.5 Social Work  

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    Non-MemberN/A$35.00
    MemberN/A$27.00

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