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Chris Dyke is a social researcher and lecturer with research interests in autism, the effectiveness of professional interventions, the risk assessment of violent offenders, and cognitive biases in assessment.
He worked in residential care, local politics and charities before qualifying as a social worker in 2006, and worked for local authorities until becoming fully independent in 2015.
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The revised edition of Chris Dykes Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work is essential reading for any professional concerned with undertaking different kinds of report writing, including chronologies, genograms and court reports. This edition moves on from a nuts-and-bolts reader towards a more reflective exploration, not only of which flaws to look out for in writing and analysis, but also why they persist. Drawing on his many years in front-line practice, Chris Dyke speaks to the challenges social workers face in writing analytically in practice. Most importantly, he gets to grips with the day-to-day realities arising for social workers and their managers in conducting assessment and analysis to inform professional judgements and decision-making.
For front-line social workers, elucidating the key factors that underlie problems affecting individuals and families is a key challenge in conducting assessments as well as in writing clear and analytical reports. Not surprisingly, social work students and early practitioners often lack confidence in their assessment and report-writing skills. Writing Analytical Assessments in Social Work therefore has a very important contribution to make in developing the confidence and the critical thinking skills that are key to ethical social work practice.
This book covers the core skills and knowledge required for a wide range of report writing. Each chapter provides a rich source of exercises, case scenarios and vignettes as examples for application of practice that will engage practitioners in an informative way. I particularly like the examples that will enable practitioners to challenge assumptions they may hold and offer insights into how to address the intersecting factors that are at the centre of service users lived experiences. Utilising analytical and theoretical frameworks as tools of analysis, the book invites readers to consider how systems and environmental factors impact assessments. A particular strength is in the pointers that are provided for fostering understandings of the psychological and contextual factors that affect the quality of assessment. The section on language as a tool of oppression is insightful as it will enable practitioners to understand not only the power of language in maintaining dominant discourses, but the importance of being vigilant to the ways unconscious thoughts and feelings can contribute to reproducing inequalities in assessments. Thus, Chris Dyke addresses in a very accessible way the need for assessments that are grounded in an understanding of social inequalities as they manifest in social work. The case is strongly made that practitioners must be mindful of the need for promoting social justice and equality in social work assessments.
