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Living with Risk
Joan Langan
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Description for Living with Risk
Paperback. Explores risk assessment and risk management for people being discharged from psychiatric hospital into the community. This report also includes information about the harm that service users experienced. It provides useful information about: service user involvement in risk assessment and risk management; and services provided to manage risk. Num Pages: 58 pages. BIC Classification: MBPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 297 x 210. .
This topical report explores risk assessment and risk management for people being discharged from psychiatric hospital into the community. It breaks new ground by asking service users about their views on, and experiences of, posing a former or potential risk to other people. The report also includes information about the harm that service users experienced and explores the perspectives of mental health workers, relatives and friends about risks and their management. The report makes recommendations for improving policy and practice which will be valuable to service users, their relatives and friends, mental health workers, managers and those responsible for mental ... Read more
This topical report explores risk assessment and risk management for people being discharged from psychiatric hospital into the community. It breaks new ground by asking service users about their views on, and experiences of, posing a former or potential risk to other people. The report also includes information about the harm that service users experienced and explores the perspectives of mental health workers, relatives and friends about risks and their management. The report makes recommendations for improving policy and practice which will be valuable to service users, their relatives and friends, mental health workers, managers and those responsible for mental ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
58
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
68
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861345967
SKU
V9781861345967
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Joan Langan
Joan Langan is a Lecturer at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol. In addition to her research activities, she teaches social work students on the topics of mental health and community care. Dr Vivien Lindow is a freelance psychologist working from the perspective of a former mental health service user.
Reviews for Living with Risk
"I would recommend this book for both mental health practitioners and social scientists." Health, Risk & Society "... has important messages for mental health user involvement in the field of risk assessment." British Journal of Social Work