Self-Harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services

Herausgeber: Whittington, Richard; Logan, Caroline

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The unique challenges faced by mental health service workers who engage with patients exhibiting violent or self-harmful behaviour is a growing concern. Service-users and practitioners exposed to these types of behaviours are often themselves the sufferers of anxiety, misery, and serious injury. Providers and commissioners alike have a shared interest in working more effectively to resolve this increasingly complex issue. Self-Harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services sets out for the first time to examine and explore the most effective clinical practice techniques relating to the management of risk in mental health care settings. The volume's contributors, many of whom were members of the original national advisory group which drew up the Department of Health's 2007 Best Practice in Managing Risk guidelines, are all leading experts in their respective fields. The implementation of Best Practice into a variety of 'real world' clinical settings sheds important new light on the effectiveness of various risk management techniques. Self-Harm and Violence represents a state-of-the-art assessment of our knowledge and understanding of best practice in the management of risk in mental health care settings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 174mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 707g
• ISBN-13: 9780470746073
• ISBN-10: 0470746076
• Artikelnr.: 35420486

Autorenporträt

Richard Whittington is Professor of Mental Health in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Liverpool and an Honorary Research Fellow at Mersey Care NHS Trust. He has a PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and is a researcher and forensic psychologist with a particular research interest in the issues of violence, self-harm and mental health. Caroline Logan is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist in Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and is both practitioner and researcher, focusing on violence and self-harm, personality disorder and risk.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

Self-harm and Violence: Towards Best Practices in Managing Riskin Mental Health Services fills an important gap in theliterature, presenting the voice of service users, summarizing thelatest research about the risk of harm to self or others, andreviewing the strength of evidence for interventions used toprevent or reduce risk and harm on inpatient psychiatric units.This scholarly, yet highly accessible book will appeal to academicswho are interested in studying issues related to harm to self orothers, nursing staff who manage risk on a day-to-day basis, andeducators who will welcome the compilation of information in onesource.
--Mary E. Johnson, Professor of Nursing, RushUniversity, Chicago, USA