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• Title:Treating violence : a guide to risk management in mental health / Tony Maden.
  
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• Author/Creator:Maden, Tony.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM600 .M181 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Dangerously mentally ill--Rehabilitation.
  Violence--Treatment.
  Mental health facilities--Risk management.
  
• Medical Subjects: Mentally Ill Persons--psychology.
  Violence--prevention & control.
  Mental Disorders--complications.
  Risk Assessment.
  Risk Management.
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-184) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780198526902 (alk. paper)
  0198526903 (alk. paper)
  
• 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.