The future is here: digital technologies in social work practice

Citation

Alfandari R, Whittaker A, Helm D, Killick C, Gautschi J, Rölver M, Taylor B, Yde Nirmalarajan L, Suarez H, Middel F, Agu L, Bolin A, Raudava V & Lamponen T (2024) The future is here: digital technologies in social work practice. European Social Work Research, 2 (1), pp. 88-92. https://doi.org/10.1332/27551768y2024d000000006

Abstract
The Decisions, Assessment and Risk Special Interest Group of the European Social Work Research Association (DARSIG) dedicated a pre-conference event at the 2023 European Conference for Social Work Research in Milan, Italy, to the application of innovations using big data and machine-learning algorithms in social work risk assessment and decision-making processes. Here, we share some ideas from these discussions.

Keywords
decision making; risk assessment; big data; machine learning; technology

Journal
European Social Work Research: Volume 2, Issue 1