Violence Risk - Assessment and Management

Advances Through Structured Professional Judgement and Sequential Redirections

Christopher D Webster author Quazi Haque author Stephen J Hucker author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:22nd Nov '13

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Violence Risk - Assessment and Management cover

This expanded and updated new edition reflects the growing importance of the structured professional judgement approach to violence risk assessment and management. It offers comprehensive guidance on decision-making in cases where future violence is a potential issue.

  • Includes discussion of interventions based on newly developed instruments
  • Covers policy standards developed since the publication of the first edition
  • Interdisciplinary perspective facilitates collaboration between professionals
  • Includes contributions from P.Randolf Kropp, R. Karl Hanson, Mary-Lou Martin, Alec Buchanan and John Monahan
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"Violence Risk Assessment and Management is a compact book that excels in educating and enlightening the psychiatrist-in-training and the seasoned forensic psychiatrist about this important topic. I have waited nearly 40 years for this book." The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, 2015

ISBN: 9781119961147

Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm

Weight: 467g

250 pages

2nd edition