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Clinical Risk Management : An Introductory Text for Mental Health Clinicians by Tom Flewett (2010, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherElsevier-Health Sciences Division

ISBN-100729539342

ISBN-139780729539340

eBay Product ID (ePID)109159062

Product Key Features

SubjectGeneral, Psychiatry / General

Publication Year2010

Number of Pages238 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameClinical Risk Management : an Introductory Text for Mental Health Clinicians

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMedical

AuthorTom Flewett

FormatTrade Paperback

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal616.89025

Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgments Part 1 Introduction to risk in mental health Chapter 1 Why focus on risk? Chapter 2 What is risk? Chapter 3 Risk factors and risk equations Chapter 4 Understanding the risk Chapter 5 The context of risk Chapter 6 Personal (clinician) responses to risk Chapter 7 Systemic aspects of risk assessment and management Part 2 Clinical skills training Chapter 8 Approaches to risk assessment 1 Chapter 9 Approaches to risk assessment 2 Chapter 10 The decision-making process Chapter 11 Risk assessment: focus on documentation Chapter 12 Risk management Part 3 Risks of suicide, self harm and violence Chapter 13 Risk of suicide Chapter 14 Managing chronic risk Chapter 15 Risk of violence Part 4 Advanced skills Chapter 16 Psychodynamic principles and boundary issues Chapter 17 Managing adverse outcomes Chapter 18 Using standardised tools Appendix 1 Formats for documenting risk Appendix 2 Teaching risk assessment and management Appendix 3 Answers to exercises Glossary Index

SynopsisAn essential primer for mental health professionals, written with an emphasis on patient care Straightforward and accessible, Clinical Risk Management: An introductory text for mental health clinicians is an essential resource for anyone working in the mental health field in Australia. The book aims to alleviate anxiety in mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, counsellors and mental health care workers, and is written with an emphasis on patient care. Clinical Risk Management spans an extensive range of topics integral to the work of mental health professionals. These topics include an introduction to the concept of risk, an analysis of where risk sits within a mental health setting and an in-depth exploration of the most common mental health risks, including suicide, violence and self-harm. This important medical textbook highlights some more complicated components of clinical risk management; namely psychodynamic principles and boundary issues, managing adverse outcomes and using standardised tools. Existing literature on clinical risk management in the mental health arena is largely limited to journal articles, making Clinical Risk Management: An introductory text for mental health clinicians a necessary and unique health resource., An essential primer for mental health professionals, written with an emphasis on patient care Straightforward and accessible, Clinical Risk Management: An introductory text for mental health clinicians is an essential resource for anyone working in the mental health field in Australia. The book aims to alleviate anxiety in mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, counsellors and mental health care workers, and is written with an emphasis on patient care. Clinical Risk Management spans an extensive range of topics integral to the work of mental health professionals. These topics include an introduction to the concept of risk, an analysis of where risk sits within a mental health setting and an in-depth exploration of the most common mental health risks, including suicide, violence and self-harm. This important medical textbook highlights some more complicated components of clinical risk management; namely psychodynamic principles and boundary issues, managing adverse outcomes and using standardised tools. Existing literature on clinical risk management in the mental health arena is largely limited to journal articles, making Clinical Risk Management: An introductory text for mental health clinicians a necessary and unique health resource. . addresses problems prevalent in psychiatry . looks at the increase in substance abuse in Australian society and the consequences for mental health professionals . offers easy-to-read boxed tips, examples and learning points . is logically structured in four parts, with an overview, clinical skills, types of risk and advanced skill, An essential primer for mental health professionals, written with an emphasis on patient care Straightforward and accessible, Clinical Risk Management: An introductory text for mental health clinicians is an essential resource for anyone working in the mental health field in Australia. The book aims to alleviate anxiety in mental health professionals, including psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, counsellors and mental health care workers, and is written with an emphasis on patient care. Clinical Risk Management spans an extensive range of topics integral to the work of mental health professionals. These topics include an introduction to the concept of risk, an analysis of where risk sits within a mental health setting and an in-depth exploration of the most common mental health risks, including suicide, violence and self-harm. This important medical textbook highlights some more complicated components of clinical risk management; namely psychodynamic principles and boundary issues, managing adverse outcomes and using standardised tools. Existing literature on clinical risk management in the mental health arena is largely limited to journal articles, making Clinical Risk Management: An introductory text for mental health clinicians a necessary and unique health resource. . addresses problems prevalent in psychiatry . looks at the increase in substance abuse in Australian society and the consequences for mental health professionals . offers easy-to-read boxed tips, examples and learning points . is logically structured in four parts, with an overview, clinical skills, types of risk and advanced skills