Richard Whittington & Caroline Logan 
Self-Harm and Violence 
Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk in Mental Health Services

Self-Harm and Violence: Towards Best Practice in Managing Risk
in Mental Health Services presents the first exploration of the
most effective clinical practice techniques relating to the
management of risk in mental health care settings.

* Based on the Department of Health’s Best Practice in
Managing Risk guidance document, which was developed over a
12-month period in consultation with a national expert advisory
group

* Features contributions from many members of the group that drew
up the Best Practice document – all leading
theoreticians and practitioners in their particular fields –
and embeds the principles laid out in the guidelines in real world
practice

* Reveals how contemporary risk management is a multidisciplinary
and collaborative enterprise in which practitioners from different
professions need to engage with each other in order to achieve
success

Spis treści

Contributors.

Foreword.

Preface.

1 Introduction (Richard Whittington and Caroline
Logan).

PART I EXPERIENCE.

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

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

PART II EVIDENCE.

4 Understanding and Managing Self-Harmin Mental Health Services
(Maria Leitner and Wally Barr).

5 Understanding and Managing Violence in Mental Health Services
(Richard Whittington, James Mc Guire, Tilman Steinert and
Beverley Quinn).

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

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

PART III PRACTICE.

8 Guidelines and Standards for Managing Risk in Mental Health
Services (Caroline Logan, Norbert Nedopil and Thomas
Wolf).

9 Organizations, Corporate Governance and Risk Management (Ben
Thomas).

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

11 Evidence and Principles for Positive Risk Management (Paul
Clifford).

12 Encouraging Positive Risk Management: 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-Step Model 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 from Experience – Using Clinical
Risk Data to Influence and Shape Clinical Services (Louise
Fountain and Patrick Mc Kee).

16 Case Study 4: From Ticking Boxes to Effective Risk Management
(Lorna Jellicoe-Jones, Mark Love, Roy Butterworth and Claire
Riding).

17 Conclusions (Caroline Logan and Richard
Whittington).

Glossary.

Index.

O autorze

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 Ph D 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.