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Challenging assumptions about risk factors and the role of screening for violence risk in the field of mental health

Pages 85-100 | Received 13 Jan 2009, Accepted 18 Jan 2010, Published online: 26 Apr 2010

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Sarah Markham. (2021) The Totalising Nature of Secure and Forensic Mental Health Services in England and Wales. Frontiers in Psychiatry 12.
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Daryl G. Kroner & Gunnar C. Butler. 2020. The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Violence Risk Management. The Wiley Handbook of What Works in Violence Risk Management 33 52 .
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Adam Flintoff, Ewen Speed & Susan McPherson. (2018) Risk assessment practice within primary mental health care: A logics perspective. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 23:6, pages 656-674.
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Anne Felton & Theo Stickley. (2018) Rethinking risk: a narrative approach. The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 13:1, pages 54-62.
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Patrick Callaghan & Andrew Grundy. (2018) Violence risk assessment and management in mental health: a conceptual, empirical and practice critique. The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice 13:1, pages 3-13.
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Jeremy Dixon & Megan Robb. (2016) Working with Women with a Learning Disability Experiencing Domestic Abuse: How Social Workers Can Negotiate Competing Definitions of Risk. British Journal of Social Work 46:3, pages 773-788.
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Irene de Haan & Marie Connolly. (2014) Another Pandora's box? Some pros and cons of predictive risk modeling. Children and Youth Services Review 47, pages 86-91.
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George SzmuklerNikolas Rose. (2013) Risk Assessment in Mental Health Care: Values and Costs. Behavioral Sciences & the Law 31:1, pages 125-140.
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Sascha Callaghan & Christopher J Ryan. (2012) Rising to the human rights challenge in compulsory treatment – new approaches to mental health law in Australia. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 46:7, pages 611-620.
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Daryl G. Kroner. (2012) Service user involvement in risk assessment and management: The Transition Inventory. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 22:2, pages 136-147.
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