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Risk assessment: developing training for professionals in mental health work
- Authors:
- STANLEY Nicky, MANTHORPE Jill
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 7(1), 1997, pp.26-38.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
Explores the definitions and advocacy of risk assessment that have emerged from a series of inquiry reports into mental health tragedies in the 1990s and considers government guidelines. A short piece of training in risk assessment and management in mental health work is described and the course members' responses to using a risk assessment as well as the opportunities.