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Index
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Preface A Word from the Philosophical
Prevention versus protection
Therapeutic needs assessment versus needs assessment
Individual social work versus individual, family and community social work
Personalised safeguarding versus risk management
Assessment – how much is enough?
Ethics and values
Introduction An Overview
1. What is Self-Neglect and Hoarding?
Defining self-neglect and hoarding
Hoarding disorder
Is it collecting or is it hoarding?
Attachment to objects
Sorting and organising
Links with other diagnoses
When to consider a referral for diagnosis
2. How Self-Neglect Affects Peoples Lives
Fire
Falls
Housing
Physical and mental health
Families and carers
3. Themes from Adult Serious Case Reviews or Safeguarding Adult Reviews
Ethical decision-making considerations
Identifying self-neglect
Care Act compliant enquiries (S42)
Risk to others
Risk assessment
Carers’ assessment
Mental health and substance misuse
Capacity and consent
Advocacy and representation
Multi-agency response
Comprehensive and holistic assessment
Compliance and insight
Imposed sanctions, imposed compliance or penalties
Information sharing
Personalised safeguarding
Management support and response
Defensible decision making
Other
4. Safeguarding those who Self-Neglect under the Care Act 2014
The safeguarding referral
Eligibility criteria for safeguarding adults
Principles of safeguarding
Information recording and sharing
How the local authority responds
Defensible decision making
The Care Act and information sharing
The Crime and Disorder Act 1998
Case law judgments
Ten steps to information sharing
5. Therapeutic Interventions
Building a rapport
Trauma, abuse, neglect, loss and bereavement
Systemic approaches
The cycle of change
Solution-focused assessment
The beginning of assessment
6. Assessment and Engagement
What is a good assessment?
Risk assessment
Assessing capacity
Competency
Comprehensive assessment
Person-centred assessment
An example of a safeguarding adult referral and assessment
Self-assessment
7. Supporting the Practitioner
Creating social work strategies that are supportive
Social work intervention models
Case loads and austerity
8. Conclusion
Final Checklist
Epilogue: A Final Thought from the Philosophical
References
Subject Index
Author Index
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