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Self-Harm and Violence
eBook - Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services
ISBN/EAN: 9781119991182
Umbreit-Nr.: 3835156
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 336 S., 3.14 MB
Format in cm:
Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 14.01.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
E-Book
Format: PDF
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <i>Self-Harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services</i> presents the first exploration of the most effective clinical practice techniques relating to the management of risk in mental health care settings.<ul><li>Based on the Department of Healths<i>Best Practice in Managing Risk</i> guidance document, which was developed over a 12-month period in consultation with a national expert advisory group</li><li>Features contributions from many members of the group that drew up the<i>Best Practice</i> document all leading theoreticians and practitioners in their particular fields and embeds the principles laid out in the guidelines in real world practice</li><li>Reveals how contemporary risk management is a multidisciplinary and collaborative enterprise in which practitioners from different professions need to engage with each other in order to achieve success</li></ul>
- Autorenportrait
- <b>Richard Whittington</b> is Professor of Mental Health in the<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType> of<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Health Sciences</st1:PlaceName> at the<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Liverpool</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and an Honorary Research Fellow at Mersey Care NHS Trust. He has a PhD from the<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Institute</st1:PlaceType> of<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Psychiatry</st1:PlaceName> in<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City></st1:place>, and is a researcher and forensic psychologist with a particular research interest in the issues of violence, self-harm and mental health.<p/><b>Caroline Logan</b> is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist in Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Research Fellow at the<st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> of<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Manchester</st1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceType>. She has a DPhil from the<st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">University</st1:place> of<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Oxford</st1:PlaceName></st1:PlaceType> and is both practitioner and researcher, focusing on violence and self-harm, personality disorder and risk.