Self-Harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services presents the first exploration of the most effective clinical practice techniques relating to the management of risk in mental health care settings. Based on the Department of Health s Best Practice in Managing Risk guidance document, which was developed over a 12-month period in consultation with a national expert advisory group Features contributions from many members of the group that drew up the Best Practice document all leading theoreticians and practitioners in their particular fields and embeds the principles laid out in the guidelines in real world practice 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

Self-Harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Riskin Mental Health Services presents the first exploration of themost effective clinical practice techniques relating to themanagement of risk in mental health care settings.* Based on the Department of Health's Best Practice inManaging Risk guidance document, which was developed over a12-month period in consultation with a national expert advisorygroup* Features contributions from many members of the group that drewup the Best Practice document - all leadingtheoreticians and practitioners in their particular fieldsand embeds the principles laid out in the guidelines in real worldpractice* Reveals how contemporary risk management is a multidisciplinaryand collaborative enterprise in which practitioners from differentprofessions need to engage with each other in order to achievesuccess

Contributors.Foreword.Preface.1 Introduction (Richard Whittington and CarolineLogan).PART I EXPERIENCE.2 Service Users: Experiences of Risk and RiskManagement (KaySheldon).3 Carers: Experiences of Risk and RiskManagement (SallyLuxton).PART II EVIDENCE.4 Understanding andManaging Self-HarminMental Health Services(Maria Leitner and Wally Barr).5 Understanding andManaging Violence inMental Health Services(Richard Whittington, James McGuire, Tilman Steinert andBeverley Quinn).6 Suicide and Homicide by People withMental Illness: A NationalOverview (Kirsten Windfuhr and Nicola Swinson).7 Evidence and Principles for Service User Involvement inRiskManagement (Helen Gilburt).PART III PRACTICE.8 Guidelines and Standards forManaging Risk inMental HealthServices (Caroline Logan, Norbert Nedopil and ThomasWolf).9 Organizations, Corporate Governance and RiskManagement (BenThomas).10 Formulation in Clinical Risk Assessment andManagement(Caroline Logan, Rajan Nathan and Andrew Brown).11 Evidence and Principles for Positive RiskManagement (PaulClifford).12 Encouraging Positive RiskManagement: Supporting Decisions byPeople with Learning Disabilities Using a Human Rights-BasedApproach (Richard Whitehead, Ged Carney and BethGreenhill).PART IV IMPLEMENTATION.13 Case Study 1: A Four-StepModel of Implementation(Geraldine Strathdee, Phil Garnham, Jane Moore and DevendraHansjee).14 Case Study 2: Narrowing the Gap between Policy and Practice(Kate Hunt).15 Case Study 3: Learning fromExperience - Using ClinicalRisk Data to Influence and Shape Clinical Services (LouiseFountain and Patrick McKee).16 Case Study 4: FromTicking Boxes to Effective RiskManagement(Lorna Jellicoe-Jones, Mark Love, Roy Butterworth and ClaireRiding).17 Conclusions (Caroline Logan and RichardWhittington).Glossary.Index.