Research Catalog

Title

Treating violence : a guide to risk management in mental health / Tony Maden.

Author

Maden, Tony

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

x, 189 pages; 24 cm

Summary

'Treating Violence' deals with the problem of violence by mental health patients. Studies have established that mental disorders lead to violence in a minority of sufferers. This book critically reviews risk assessment methods and summarises the evidence.

Subject

• Dangerously mentally ill > Rehabilitation
• Violence > Treatment
• Mental health facilities > Risk management
• Risk assessment
• Risk management
• Violence > prevention & control
• Mentally Ill Persons > psychology
• Mental Disorders > complications
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Management
• risk assessment
• risk management
• Risk management
• Risk assessment
• Mental health facilities > Risk management
• Violence > Treatment
• Therapieën
• Psychisch gestoorden
• Bewältigung
• Gewalt
• Prävention
• Psychisch Kranker
• Psychotherapie
• Risiko
• Psykiatri
• Psykiatrisk omvårdnad
• Riskanalys
• Riskhantering

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.

Contents

1. Why worry about violence risk assessment? -- 2. Researching violence risk -- 3. When things go wrong ... homicide inquiries in the United Kingdom -- 4. Clinical assessment of violence risk -- 5. Standardized or actuarial risk assessment -- 6. Structured clinical assessment of violence risk : the thinking man's approach -- 7. A new look at homicides by the mentally ill : applying structured risk assessment -- 8. Conclusions : on good treatment and bad attitudes.

ISBN

• 9780198526902
• 0198526903

LCCN

2006033355

OCLC

• ocm72774297
• 72774297
• SCSB-13976983

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library