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Update on risk assessment in mentally disordered populations
- Authors:
- HEILBRUN Kirk, KRAMER Greg M.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 1(2), 2001, pp.55-63.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
Interest in violence risk assessment has grown in recent years, as risk assessment is relevant to a variety of decisions in law, mental health practice, and occupational settings. Although advances have been made in risk assessment in a variety of populations, including juveniles, mentally disordered offenders, sexual offenders, the domestically violent, and those involved in workplace violence, the present article focuses on the population of individuals with mental disorders but without criminal involvement. Reviews recent concpetual and empirical advances in this area, and describes the development of relevant risk assessment tools.
Looking to the future: key issues for contemporary mental health services
- Editor:
- BASSET Thurstine
- Publisher:
- Pavilion Publishing,|Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 229p.bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Brighton
Focusing on central issues and debates, key research findings and current challenges, the book is illustrated with mental health service users' poems and photographs, and presents a broad overview of the mental heath care system which is looking to the future. The book is intended as a reader for the Certificate in Community Mental Health Care. Contents include: perspectives on mental health and illness; issues around empowerment; carpers' testimonies; legal contexts across the UK; individual care planning; risk and safety; anti-racist practice in mental health assessment; community mental health services; working with people with long term needs; strategies for living with mental distress; understanding relationships; the soul of psychiatry.
The point of law: Mental Health Act explained
- Authors:
- DOLAN Bridget, POWELL Debra
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 309p.
- Place of publication:
- London
- Edition:
- 2nd.
This book is aimed at doctors, social workers, nurses, hospital managers, lawyers and others who may use the Mental Health Act as part of their profession. The Act and this book outline the psychiatric disorders for which detention is permitted and sets out the nature and extent of the powers of hospital authorities to detain a person for assessment and treatment. It also looks at guardianship, discharge and aftercare and outlines the arrangements that have to be made to manage an individual's property and financial affairs. The book includes the full text of the Act, divided into sub-sections, with each sub-section being explained in plain English. Each sub-section is also annotated with discussions on the application of the Act in practice as well as amendments and analyses of recent legal decisions and the introduction of other legislation which affects the Act.