{"title":"Clients don't sue: the invulnerable social worker.","authors":"J A Jones, A Alcabes","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors present data showing wide discrepancies in the rates of malpractice suits between social work and other professions. They attribute this discrepancy to social work's commitment to the service ideal as opposed to a fee-for-service model.</p>","PeriodicalId":80170,"journal":{"name":"Social casework","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Social casework","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The authors present data showing wide discrepancies in the rates of malpractice suits between social work and other professions. They attribute this discrepancy to social work's commitment to the service ideal as opposed to a fee-for-service model.