Christopher D Webster, Quazi Haque, Stephen J Hucker

Violence Risk-Assessment and Management

Advances Through Structured Professional Judgement and Sequential Redirections

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Now in an updated and expanded second edition, this volume offers comprehensive guidance and background material on decision-making in cases where future violence is a potential issue. It outlines best practice in conducting violence assessments of individuals in varied contexts, including civil psychiatric hospitals, forensic mental health services and the criminal justice system. The authors detail the operation of criminal and mental health codes internationally, with a particular focus on Canada and England, and synthesize commonly agreed principles appropriate for use in assessing a client's propensity for committing violence. This new edition reflects a general change in violence risk assessment and management, with structured professional judgement now a well established approach, and engages with the growing attention paid to the role of protective factors when evaluating and managing violence risks. It demonstrates today's closer integration of risk assessment and treatment, covered in discrete chapters on planning and formulation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781119961147
• ISBN-10: 1119961149
• Artikelnr.: 39712605

Autorenporträt

Christopher D. Webster is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada, as well as Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Simon Fraser University. A Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association and the Royal Society of Canada, his publications include the first edition of this volume (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), and Essential Writings in Risk Assessment and Management (2007), which he co-edited. Quazi Haque is Executive Medical Director for Partnerships in Care, one of the largest providers of mental health services in the UK. A Fellow of the UK Royal College of Psychiatrists and former lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry's Home Office Teaching Unit, he collaborated with Christopher Webster in developing a structured professional judgement training programme at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College London. Stephen J. Hucker is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, Canada. A specialist in forensic psychiatry, he is a former head of the forensic programs at Toronto's Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and has lectured widely on forensic psychiatry both to scientific and professional audiences. He maintains a private practice and is frequently called as an expert witness in legal cases.

Inhaltsangabe

Tribute Dr. F.A.S. Jenson vi

List of Figures vii

List of Tables viii

List of Boxes ix

About the Authors x

Foreword Alec Buchanan xii

Preface to the Second Edition xviii

Acknowledgements xxi

1 Decision Points 1

2 Points of View 8

3 Predictions and Errors 15

4 Developmental Trajectories 26

5 Symptomologies 33

6 Personality Disorders 47

7 Substance Abuse 55

8 Factors: Risk and Protective, Single, Multiple, and Interacting 61

9 SPJ Guides 72

10 Competitions 88

11 Planning 92

12 Transitions Mary-Lou Martin 98

13 Sequential Redirections 106

14 Implementations 116

15 Teaching and Researching SPJ Guides 123

16 Spousal Assaulters: Risk Assessment and Management P. Randall Kropp 138

17 Sex Offenders R. Karl Hanson 148

18 Teams 159

19 Communications 163

20 Getting it Wrong, Getting it Right (Mostly) 170

Questions 187

Afterword John Monahan, PhD 195

References 200

Index 224

Rezensionen

This is an excellent account of risk assessment for mentalhealth professionals. It should find a place on everypractitioner's book shelf and every undergraduate readinglist.
--Professor Harry Kennedy, Trinity College Dublin

Webster and colleagues have produced an exceptionally usefulbook, situating leading contemporary models of violence riskassessment and management within decision making contexts. Theyprovide substantial pragmatic guidance on how to make toughdecisions about violence risk at various transition points withinforensic and correctional settings, and how to implement andevaluate risk assessment models within systems. This book will beilluminating for all key stakeholders - administrators;policy-makers; practitioners; and researchers.
--Professor Kevin Douglas, Simon Fraser University