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Managing Clinical Risk
A Guide to Effective Practice
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Violence directed towards others and violence directed towards oneself cause an immense amount of physical and psychological damage - to the harmed and the harmful person alike, to their families, and to the public at large. Managing clinical risk is an authoritative manual for practitioners working with harmful men, women, and young people, containing up-to-date information and guidance on what to do and how they can assess and manage clinical risk, communicate their concerns about risk, and account for their decisions about risk management to their clients and to the Courts.

This book provides an evidence-based understanding of risk in key areas of practice - violence, sexual violence, firesetting, suicide, and self-harm, working with individuals and organisations alike - and among special groups: women, young people, serving and former military personnel, clients with comorbid presentations, and clients with cognitive impairment. Further, it suggests and describes the skills practitioners need to understand and communicate their concerns to all who need to know about them through coverage of interviewing and risk formulation skills.

This is a guidebook to effective practice. All its contributors have a record of research, practice, and considered thinking in the area of clinical risk assessment and management. They all have a wide range of knowledge and experience about the notion of risk, conducting risk management in real world mental health, correctional, and community settings, and about working with clients with a label of high risk. Together, they combine theoretical and research knowledge with a wealth of practical skills in care and management, emphasising the collaborative and recovery-focused nature of modern risk management.


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Part 1: The need for change 1. Violence risk assessment: from prediction to understanding - or from what? to why? Part 2: Key areas of practice: 2. Violence risk assessment and management: putting structured professional judgement into practice,3. Working with complicated cases: mental disorder and violence, 4. Managing the risk posed by personality-disordered sex offenders in the community,5. Suicide and self-harm: clinical risk assessment and management using a structured professional judgement approach, Caroline Logan 6. Pathological firesetting by adults,7. Risk management: beyond the individual,Part 3: Key client groups: 8. Risk assessment and management with clients with cognitive impairment, 9. Making delinquency prevention work with children and adolescents,10. Working with women: towards a more gender-sensitive violence risk assessment, 11. Clinical risk assessment and mangement with military personnel and veterans: the tip of a camouflaged iceberg, Part 4: Key practice skills 12. Risk assessment: specialist interviewing skills for forensic practitioners,13. Protective factors for violence risk: bringing balance to risk assessment and management,Postscript: 14. Future directions in clinical risk assessment and management,Afterword


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ISBN-13: 9781843928546
Publisher: Willan Publishing
Publication date: August, 2012
Pages: 352
Weight: 810g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Psychology

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