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