EBOOK: Facing Danger in the Helping Professions: A Skilled Approach

Book excerpt: Dangerous behaviour is a very real threat to practitioners working across the helping professions, and one that many feel ill-equipped to adequately deal with. This innovative, accessible and theoretically informed book focuses on the types of dangerous behaviour that helping professionals are likely to encounter, and provides strategies and skills for dealing with these situations. The book’s focus is on the immediate face-to-face management of interpersonal danger, and looks at ways in which helping professionals should implement good practice, while dealing with the moments of extreme stress, confusion, fear and anxiety that these situations give rise to.