Risk assessment and management: A community forensic mental health practice model

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 206-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Kelly ◽  
Warren Simmons ◽  
Esther Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Practice Model ◽  
Mental Health Practice ◽  
Risk Assessment And Management

Ethical Considerations in Forensic Mental Health Practice

2022 ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Noah K. Kaufman ◽  
Shane S. Bush ◽  
Nicole R. Schneider ◽  
Scotia J. Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Forensic Mental Health ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Mental Health Practice

Risk Assessment in Mental Health Practice: An Integrative Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
pp. 995-1003
Author(s):  
Elsie Janse van Rensburg ◽  
Annatjie van der Wath
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Mental Health Practice

Assessing and managing the risks of violence towards others

2012 ◽  
pp. 1991-2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Mullen ◽  
James R. P. Ogloff
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Mental Health Practice ◽  
Individual Outcomes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Management Of Risk

Assessing and managing the risk of our patients being violent towards others now occupies a prominent position in virtually all forms of mental health practice, but it remains a contentious area. At the highest level researchers, psychometricians, and statisticians argue about almost every aspect, even whether anything useful can be said about individual outcomes rather than group indicators. At the next level an industry flourishes of selling training, and risk assessment tinstruments, to those who then appear as experts in a wide range of mental health and criminal justice contexts. On the ground, almost everyone in mental health is drawn into filling out purpose-designed forms and complying with protocols, most of little or no demonstrated validity. This chapter is intended to make clinicians aware of both the possibilities and limitations of existing approaches to the assessments of risk. Given that there is no reason for mental health professionals to evaluate risk without gaining information to manage it, this chapter will also address the management of risk for aggression and violence.

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