A Doctoral dissertation studying the lived experience of decision making
by child welfare social workers in British Columbia, Canada. Through
personal interviews with eight social workers currently employed by the
province of British Columbia, who each had more than ten years of
experience, information was collected about decision making in both
crisis and non-crisis situations. The participants revealed that,
contrary to the literature, they used intuition based on their
experience and expertise in the field of social work as a supplement to
rational decision-making processes in both situations. This has
implications for future research and for social work leadership. The
field of social work has been moving towards decision aids and
structured decision-making tools in an attempt to standardize social
work decision- making. The role of intuition based on practice
experience needs to be addressed by research on decision making and the
practice of child welfare social work.
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- ISBN
- 9781927848067
- Copyright
- Dr. Anne Marie Clayton (Standard Copyright Licence)
- Edition
- Non-academic Press Edition
- Publisher
- Filidh Publishing, Victoria, BC
- Published
- May 4, 2014
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 193
- Binding
- Perfect-bound Paperback
- Interior Ink
- Black & white
- Weight
- 0.6 kg
- Dimensions (centimetres)
- 21.59 wide x 27.94 tall