Self-Harm and Violence (eBook)

Richard Whittington is Professor of Mental Health in the School of Health Sciences at the University of Liverpool and an Honorary Research Fellow at Mersey Care NHS Trust. He has a PhD from the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and is a researcher and forensic psychologist with a particular research interest in the issues of violence, self-harm and mental health. Caroline Logan is a Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist in Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and is both practitioner and researcher, focusing on violence and self-harm, personality disorder and risk.

Contributors.

Foreword.

Preface.

1 Introduction (Richard Whittington and Caroline
Logan).

PART I EXPERIENCE.

2 Service Users: Experiences of Risk and RiskManagement (Kay
Sheldon).

3 Carers: Experiences of Risk and RiskManagement (Sally
Luxton).

PART II EVIDENCE.

4 Understanding andManaging Self-HarminMental Health Services
(Maria Leitner and Wally Barr).

5 Understanding andManaging Violence inMental Health Services
(Richard Whittington, James McGuire, Tilman Steinert and
Beverley Quinn).

6 Suicide and Homicide by People withMental Illness: A National
Overview (Kirsten Windfuhr and Nicola Swinson).

7 Evidence and Principles for Service User Involvement in
RiskManagement (Helen Gilburt).

PART III PRACTICE.

8 Guidelines and Standards forManaging Risk inMental Health
Services (Caroline Logan, Norbert Nedopil and Thomas
Wolf).

9 Organizations, Corporate Governance and RiskManagement (Ben
Thomas).

10 Formulation in Clinical Risk Assessment andManagement
(Caroline Logan, Rajan Nathan and Andrew Brown).

11 Evidence and Principles for Positive RiskManagement (Paul
Clifford).

12 Encouraging Positive RiskManagement: Supporting Decisions by
People with Learning Disabilities Using a Human Rights-Based
Approach (Richard Whitehead, Ged Carney and Beth
Greenhill).

PART IV IMPLEMENTATION.

13 Case Study 1: A Four-StepModel of Implementation
(Geraldine Strathdee, Phil Garnham, Jane Moore and Devendra
Hansjee).

14 Case Study 2: Narrowing the Gap between Policy and Practice
(Kate Hunt).

15 Case Study 3: Learning fromExperience - Using Clinical
Risk Data to Influence and Shape Clinical Services (Louise
Fountain and Patrick McKee).

16 Case Study 4: FromTicking Boxes to Effective RiskManagement
(Lorna Jellicoe-Jones, Mark Love, Roy Butterworth and Claire
Riding).

17 Conclusions (Caroline Logan and Richard
Whittington).

Glossary.

Index.

Self-harm and Violence: Towards Best Practices in Managing Risk
in Mental Health Services fills an important gap in the
literature, presenting the voice of service users, summarizing the
latest research about the risk of harm to self or others, and
reviewing the strength of evidence for interventions used to
prevent or reduce risk and harm on inpatient psychiatric units.
This scholarly, yet highly accessible book will appeal to academics
who are interested in studying issues related to harm to self or
others, nursing staff who manage risk on a day-to-day basis, and
educators who will welcome the compilation of information in one
source.

--Mary E. Johnson, Professor of Nursing, Rush
University, Chicago, USA