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Risk Assessment in Psychiatry
A Guide for Lawyers
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Main description:

This work examines the risks that are associated with psychiatric disorders and demonstrates both the possibilities and the limitations of psychiatric risk assessment. The term 'risk assessment' is customarily taken to mean the evaluation of the risk of aggression or other untoward behaviour that has a major influence in situations concerning, for example, family and child practice and the criminal law. However, the alternative meaning attributable to the term, namely the risk of occurrence of mental disorder, which has substantial implications for personal injury law and employment law is also addressed in detail. As mental disorder is now acknowledged to be so widespread (and underdiagnosed), its effects are to be felt in all areas of life. Risk Assessment in Psychiatry: A Guide for Lawyers is essential reading for lawyers in various fields of specialisation (criminal, family, employment and personal injury law), social workers, probation officers, occupational health professionals and those working within insurance.


Contents:

Part 1 General considerations; Organic mental disorders - dementia, confusional states, head injury; Psychotic disorders - schizophrenia and paranoid disorders; Mood disorders - bipolar affective disorders; The neuroses - minor depressive illness, anxiety states, stress reactions, obsessive-compulsive disorders, hysteria; Disorders of dependence and appetite - misuse of substances and disorders of appetite; Disorders of personality and psychopathy; Learning disabilities and developmental disorders - learning disabilities, childhood autism and Asperger's syndrome; Special situations and unusual disorders - post-partum states, morbid jealousy, Munchausen's syndrome; Part 2 Specific situations involving risk assessment; Assessment of aggression and violence - suicidal behaviour, homicidal behaviour, sexual violence; Situations involving the family and children - domestic violence; Risk associated with recurrence of disorder in employment; Risk associated with cognitive disturbance - dementia and confusional states; Onset and recurrence of disorder in post-traumatic states; Risk of persistence or recurrence of nuisance behaviour; Bibliography/Appendix material.


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ISBN-13: 9781846611094
Publisher: Jordan Publishing
Publication date: March, 2008
Pages: 302
Dimensions: 156.00 x 246.00 x 15.00
Weight: 652g
Availability: Contact supplier
Subcategories: Psychiatry

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