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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY

This page is a bit of a long term project. It is intended to make it into an annotated Bibliography and Resource for social care workers. However, this will take quite some time and there is no set completion date. In the interim, we will add book reference "Sections" from time to time. Many of the individual course profiles have their own bibliographic references at the bottom of the respective page. 

Especially recommended books are highlighted in bold type.

Please also see our own Research page.

We have provided an Amazon Search Link below and at the bottom of the page (we thoroughly recommend Amazon and buy many books both new and secondhand from them) in case you wish to order your books now.

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR ATTACHMENT THEORY AND ATTACHMENT-BASED INTERVENTION

Books above in bold are especially recommended: Order now from Amazon.

BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR RISK, DECISIONS AND ERROR THEORY

Audit Commission Report: (2001) Worth the Risk: improving risk management in local government (London).
Baron. J. (2^nd ed) (1994) Thinking and Deciding (Cambridge, CUP)
Beckett. C. (2001) “Social Workers Knew…” in Professional Social Work, page 3, December 2001.
Beckett. R. (1994) “Assessment of sex offenders” in Morrison. T. (ed) (1994) Sexual Offending Against Children: assessment and treatment of male abusers (London, Routledge) 
Bernstein P. L. (1996) Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (New York, Wiley)
Beach L. R. (1997) The Psychology of Decision Making: People in Organisations (London, Sage)
Brearley. C. P. (1982) Risk in Social Work (London, Routledge)
Browne. K. D. (1995) “Predicting Maltreatment” in Reder. P. and Lucey. C. (eds) (1995) Assessment of parenting: psychiatric and psychological contributions (London, Routledge)
Browne K. D. and Saqi. S. (1988) “Approaches to screening families at high risk for child abuse” in Browne. K. D. et al (1988) Early prediction and prevention of child abuse. (Chichester, Wiley)
Calder. M. C. et al (2000) The Complete Guide to Sexual Abuse Assessment (Lyme Regis, Russell House)
Cleaver. H and Freeman P (1995) Parental Perspectives in Cases of Suspected Child Abuse (London, HMSO)
Connolly T, Arkes H and Hammond K (2000) Judgement and Decision Making (Cambridge, CUP)
Cooper A (2003) “Risk and the Framework for Assessment” in Calder M and Hackett S (2003) Assessment in Childcare (Dorset, Russell House)
Cooper A (2004) Game Theory and Partnership in Child Protection Practice: Vol 16, No 3, SeptemberBASW Practice journal
Corby. B. (1993) Child Abuse: Towards a Knowledge Base (Buckingham, OU Press)
Dalgleish. L. & Drew E. (1989) “The relationship of child abuse indicators to the assessment of perceived risk and the decision to separate” in Child Abuse and Neglect, 13, pp 491 – 506.
DoH (1974) Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Care and Supervision Provided in Relation to Maria Colwell (HMSO)
DoH (1982) Child Abuse: A Study of Inquiry Reports 1973 – 1981.
DoH (1988) (Orange Book): A Guide for Social Workers undertaking a Comprehensive Assessment
DoH (1991) Child Abuse: A Study of Inquiry Reports 1980 – 1989.
DoH (1995) Messages from Research
DoH (1998) Modernising Social Services
DoH (2006) Working Together to Safeguard Children
DoH (2000a) Framework for Assessing Children in Need and their Families
DoH (2000b) The Child’s World: assessing children in need: Trainer Modules 1 to 4 and Reader. (DoH, NSPCC and University of Sheffield)
DoH & Home Office (2003) The Victoria Climbie Inquiry (TSO)
Farmer. E. (1993) “The Impact of Child Protection Interventions: The Experiences of Parents and Children” in Waterhouse. L. and Stevenson. O. (1993) Child Abuse and Child Abusers (London, Jessica Kingsley)
Gigerenzer G (2002) Reckoning with Risk (London, Penguin)
Greenland. C. (1987) Preventing CAN deaths: An International Study of Deaths due to Child Abuse and Neglect (London, Tavistock)
Hacking I (2001) An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic (Cambridge, CUP).
Hagell. A. (1998) Dangerous Care: Reviewing the risks to children from their carers (London, Policy Studies Institute / Bridge Child Care Development Service)
Hammond K. (2000) Human Judgment and Social Policy: irreducible uncertainty, inevitable error, unavoidable injustice. (Oxford, OUP)
Hastie R and Dawes R (2001) Rational Choice in an Uncertain World (London, Sage)
Heap S, Hollis M, Lyons B, Sugden R and Weale A (1999) The Theory of Choice (Oxford, Blackwell)
Howitt. D. (1992) Child Abuse Errors: When Good Intentions Go Wrong (London, Harvester Wheatsheaf)
Jaeger C, Renn O, Rosa E and Webler T (2000) Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action (London, Earthscan)
Kaplan. M. (1996) Decision Theory as Philosophy (Cambridge, CUP)
Kahneman D, Slovic P and Tversky A (eds) (1999) Judgement under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases (Cambridge, CUP)
Klein. G. (1996) Sources of power: The study of naturalistic decision making (New Jersey, Lawrence Erlbaum)
Langan. J. (2001) “The Risk Factor” in Professional Social Work, page 9, December 2001.
Leslie. J. (1998) The End of the World (London, Routledge)
McGee, C. and Westcott, H.L. (1996) System abuse: towards a greater understanding from the perspectives of children and parents, Children and Family Social Work, 1, 169-180.
Monahan. J. et al (2000) “Developing a clinically useful actuarial tool for assessing violence risk” in British Journal of Psychiatry 176, pp312-319.
Moore. P. (1995) The Business of Risk (Cambridge, CUP)
Morrison. T. (1991).) “Partnership, collaboration and change under the Children Act” in Adcock M. and White R. (eds) Significant Harm: its management and outcome (Croydon, Significant Publications).
Munro E (1998) Improving social workers knowledge base in child protection work (BASW).
O’Sullivan. T. (1999) Decision Making in Social Work (London, Macmillan).
Piatelli-Palmarini M (1994) Inevitable Illusions: how mistakes of reason rule our minds (New York, Wiley)
Plous. S. (1993) The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making (New York, McGraw Hill)
Tversky. A. & Kahneman. D. (1974) “Judgement under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases” in Connolly T. et al (2000) Judgement and Decision Making (Cambridge, CUP)
Reason J (2002) Human Error (Cambridge, CUP)
Reder. P et al (1993) Beyond Blame: Child Abuse Tragedies Revisited (London, Routledge)
Reder. P and Duncan S. (1999) Lost Innocents: a follow-up study of fatal child abuse (London, Routledge)
Rescher N (1969) Introduction to Value Theory (New Jersey, Prentice Hall)
Rescher N (1983) Risk: a Philosophical Introduction to the Theory of Risk Evaluation and Management (Washington, UPA)
Rescher N (1998) Complexity: A Philosophical Overview (London, Transaction Publishers)
Royal Society (1992) Risk: Analysis, perception, management (London)
Schick F (1997) Making Choices (Cambridge, CUP)
Senders J and Moray N (1991) Human Error: cause, prediction and prevention (London, Lawrence Erlbaum)
Simmonds. J. (1998)  “Making decisions in social work – persecuting, rescuing or being a victim” in Adcock M. and White R. (eds) Significant Harm: its management and outcome (Croydon, Significant Publications)
Strachan. R & Tallant. C. (1997) “Improving Judgement and Appreciating Bias Within the Risk Assessment Process” in Kemshall. H. & Pritchard. J. (eds) (1997) Good Practice in Risk Assessment and Risk Management 2 (London, Jessica Kingsley)
Stone M. (1992) A Model for Risk Assessment in Physical Abuse / Neglect (Surrey County Council)
Woodcock. T and Davies. M. (1978) Catastrophe Theory (New York, Dutton)

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