Self-Harm and Violence

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Self-Harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Riskin Mental Health Services presents the first exploration of themost effective clinical practice techniques relating to themanagement of risk in mental health care settings. * Based on the Department of Health's Best Practice inManaging Risk guidance document, which was developed over a12-month period in consultation with a national expert advisorygroup * Features contributions from many members of the group that drewup the Best Practice document - all leadingtheoreticians and practitioners in their particular fields -and embeds the principles laid out in the guidelines in real worldpractice * Reveals how contemporary risk management is a multidisciplinaryand collaborative enterprise in which practitioners from differentprofessions need to engage with each other in order to achievesuccess

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Richard Whittington

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Clinical Psychology Klinische Psychologie Psychologie Psychology

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Self-harm and Violence: Towards Best Practices in Managing Riskin Mental Health Services fills an important gap in theliterature, presenting the voice of service users, summarizing thelatest research about the risk of harm to self or others, andreviewing the strength of evidence for interventions used toprevent or reduce risk and harm on inpatient psychiatric units.This scholarly, yet highly accessible book will appeal to academicswho are interested in studying issues related to harm to self orothers, nursing staff who manage risk on a day-to-day basis, andeducators who will welcome the compilation of information in onesource. --Mary E. Johnson, Professor of Nursing, RushUniversity, Chicago, USA
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