Purpose- the purpose of this paper is to draw on systemic and psychodynamic theories to subject published serious case reviews (SCRs) involving self-neglect to a deeper level of scrutiny, in order to understand how complex contexts impact on self-neglect work. it also updates the dataset of self-neglect SCRs and accompanying thematic analysis. Design/methodolgy/approach - Psychodynamic and sys…
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is twofold: firs, to update the coredata set of self-neglect serious case reviews (SCRs) and safeguarding adult reviews (SARs), and accompanying thematic analysis, second, to respond to the critique in the Wood Report of SCRs commissioned by Local Safeguarding Children Boards (LSCBs) by exploring the degree to which the reviews scrutinised here can transform …