Stress, Trauma, and Decision-Making for Social Workers

Regehr is masterful in her ability to synthesize research knowledge and scholarship from social work and related fields and bring the resulting synthesis to the discussion of this complex topic. She is exceptionally well informed about the relevant fields, particularly stress and trauma, and also draws on a range of social science and health disciplines, including recent work on neuroscience. The resulting synthesis is creative, original, and rigorous.--Imogen Taylor, University of Sussex Drawing on her wide experience, Regehr teases out how stress and trauma affect social workers and their work in this well-written and practice-relevant book. Timely in this era of doubted experts, this book will equip social workers, their managers, their supervisors, and educators with knowledge and reflective commentary about the impact of stress and trauma and what can be done to maintain good decision-making and risk taking.--Jill Manthorpe, King's College London, UK Stress, Trauma, and Decision-Making in Social Work, written by a renowned researcher-practitioner with decades of experience in the area of occupational and traumatic stress, offers its readers an innovative, trauma-informed decision-making model for social workers in high-risk situations and those working with traumatized populations.--Carol Tosone, New York University Silver School of Social Work, and editor-in-chief, Clinical Social Work Journal Regehr provides a literate, timely analysis of how stress and trauma affect decision-making in social workers. Using in part her own substantial research program on social workers' risk assessment and decision-making activities, Regehr analyzes social workers' experience of stress and trauma in their work, as well as approaches to mitigation of stress and trauma. With its extensive review of post-traumatic stress and acute stress disorder literature, the book could be readily used by teachers, scholars, and practitioners in social work and related fields.--John H. Harvey, Editor, Journal of Loss and Trauma, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University of Iowa