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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 Healths Best Practice in Managing Risk guidance document, which was developed over amonth 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 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.
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