Prudent Practice: A Guide for Managing Malpractice Risk

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Today practice is more specialized and licensing regulations professional standards and statutes are more complex. The best defense remains competent ethically conscientious practice-and now NASW Press offers practitioners a complete practice guide to increasing competence and managing the risk of malpractice. Special Features 25 sample forms in the book and on CD-ROM 5 sample fact sheets to distribute to clients Summary considerations at the end of chapters Special focus on particularly high-risk areas of practice Numerous case examples and checklists. Also available: Advances in Mental Health Research: Implications for Practice - ISBN 087101291X New Management in Human Services: 2nd Edition - ISBN 0871012510 NASW Press NASW Press a division of National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is a leading scholarly press in the social sciences. We serve faculty practitioners agencies libraries clinicians and researchers throughout the United States and abroad. Known for attracting expert authors the NASW Press delivers professional information to hundreds of thousands of readers through its scholarly journals books and reference works. Some of the areas we publish in include: -Social work in the field of aging -Models of social work -Social work with children and adolescents -Ethics in social work -Community organization -Professional development