Capacity and autonomy / Robert Johns.
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TextSeries: Focus on social work lawPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Description: xxiv, 156 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137286451 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Social workers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England | Social workers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Wales | Capacity and disability -- England | Capacity and disability -- Wales | Law | LawDDC classification: 344.4'20313 Summary: Practice issues surrounding the legal concept of capacity are of fundamental importance to social work. The profession is committed to maximizing service users' autonomy yet vulnerable people may be at risk of abuse or injury if they exercise complete independence - so practitioners need to know in what situations it is appropriate for that autonomy to be curtailed. This accessible and practically-grounded text equips social workers with the legal knowledge needed to work effectively with some of the most vulnerable people in society.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Practice issues surrounding the legal concept of capacity are of fundamental importance to social work. The profession is committed to maximizing service users' autonomy yet vulnerable people may be at risk of abuse or injury if they exercise complete independence - so practitioners need to know in what situations it is appropriate for that autonomy to be curtailed. This accessible and practically-grounded text equips social workers with the legal knowledge needed to work effectively with some of the most vulnerable people in society.
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