Theorising Social Work Sense-Making: Developing a Model of Peer-Aided Judgement and Decision Making

Abstract This article addresses the challenges of sense making in social work practice and presents a descriptive model peer-aided judgement to facilitate critical debate knowledge creation. The is founded Hammond's Cognitive Continuum Theory developed direct application practice. It seeks expand currently available models decision include processes outcomes related informal peer interaction. Building on empirical studies multiple contemporary literatures, hypothesised, comprising four distinct interacting elements. By modelling these fundamental aspects judgement, this provides tool for illuminating everyday unseen value interaction framework dilemmas propositions professional concludes by examining some implications its potential use further development theory, methodology