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Treating Violence - A guide to risk management in mental health (Paperback)
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Treating Violence - A guide to risk management in mental health (Paperback)
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Treating Violence deals with the problem of violence by mental
health patients. Over the last twenty years violence by the
mentally ill has grown from just a peripheral concern to dominate
debate about services. Scientific studies have established beyond
reasonable doubt that mental disorders lead to violence in a
minority of sufferers, whilst a series of homicide inquiries
brought the media spotlight to bear on the real and imagined
failings of mental health services. Consequently, health services
have had violence risk assessment thrust upon them by worried
managers and politicians. Clinicians were bewildered by the growing
number of risk scales and they felt vulnerable to criticism when
things went wrong. This book provides a way out of the confusion.
It summarises the evidence, critically reviews risk assessment
methods, and presents a strong case for improving management
through structured clinical assessment. In this provocative and
controversial account, standardised risk assessment is discussed in
a critical, non-technical way, with a reminder that nobody can
predict the future. There is advice for the clinician on when and
how to use standardised assessment, along with a strong defence of
clinical methods. Topics include: research on violence, mental
health, and risk prediction; the ethics of violence risk
assessment; homicide inquiries in the UK, with the results of a new
study reviewing their findings; a discussion of professional
attitudes towards violence risk; a description of risk assessment
tools and recommendations for their use; and a strong defence of
structured clinical assessment as the best way of managing risk.
This is a book that should be read by anybody working in front line
mental health services or criminal justice. It will also be of
interest to those who have read the headlines about mental illness
and violence and want to know more about the facts and the
controversies that lie behind them.
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