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Risk, safety and recovery
- Authors:
- BOARDMAN Jed, ROBERTS Glenn
- Publishers:
- Centre for Mental Health, NHS Confederation. Mental Health Network
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 22
- Place of publication:
- London
This briefing paper examines current approaches to risk management in mental health care and explains why these need to be changed to be more support of people's personal recovery. It identifies ways of moving towards recovery-orientated risk assessment based on involving service users in shared decision making and jointly produced 'safety plans'. It argues that jointly produced ‘safety plans’ can be more effective ways of managing risk as well as enabling people to get on with their lives. The paper also looks at the organisational issues that need to be considered when taking a person-centred safety planning approach and presents ten key recommendations. (Edited publisher abstract)