Beyond the Risk Paradigm in Mental Health Policy and Practice (Paperback, 1st Ed. 2017)

Modern society is increasingly preoccupied with fears for the future and the idea of preventing 'the worst'. The result is a focus on attempting to calculate the probabilities of adverse events occurring - in other words, on measuring risk. Since the 1990s, the idea of risk has come to dominate policy and practice in mental health across the USA, Australasia and Europe. In this timely new text, a group of international experts examines the ways in which the narrow focus on specific kinds of risk, such as violence towards others, perpetuates the social disadvantages experienced by mental health service users whilst, at the same time, ignoring the vast array of risks experienced by the service users themselves. Benefitting from the authors' extensive practice experience, the book considers how the dominance of the risk paradigm generates dilemmas for mental health organizations, as well as within leadership and direct practice roles, and offers practical resolutions to these dilemmas that both satisfy professional ethics and improve the experience of the service user. Combining examination of key theories and concepts with insights from front line practice, this latest addition to Palgrave's Beyond the Risk Paradigm series provides an important new dimension to debates on mental health provision.

General

Imprint:	Red Globe Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Sonya Stanford • Elaine Sharland • Nina Rovinelli Heller • Joanne Warner
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	202
Edition:	1st Ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-44135-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-137-44135-6
Barcode:	9781137441355

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