Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities: Volume 6 Issue 6

Strapline:

formerly Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities
Subject:

Table of contents - Special Issue: Assessing risk and informed decision making

Guest Editors: Eddie Chaplin

Developing the leave/abscond risk assessment (LARA) from the absconding literature: an aide to risk management in secure services

Dave Hearn, David Ndegwa, Philip Norman, Natalie Hammond, Eddie Chaplin

Leave is an important part of life for both patients and clinicians in secure mental health and learning disability settings. Patients breaching leave conditions (i.e. absconding…

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Helping to keep safe

Peter Cronin, Liam Peyton

The aim of this paper is to consider risk from the perspective of people with learning disabilities.

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Capacity to choose and refuse? A case study

Susan Guthrie, Hazel Roddam, Sharmin Panna, Gordon Fairburn

This paper aims to present the distinctive roles and perspectives of the members of a multidisciplinary team supporting a man with multiple diagnoses who was under Section by the…

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Assessing risk in services for people with intellectual disability

Evan Yacoub, Richard Latham

The purpose of this paper is to make recommendations for practitioners on risk assessment in relation to people with intellectual disability.

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Autism spectrum disorders and offending

Santhana Gunasekaran, Eddie Chaplin

This paper seeks to offer a general review of offending and autism spectrum disorders from both the authors' perception of the media portrayal and the current evidence based…

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Assessment and management of risk in autism

Santhana Gunasekaran

This paper aims to describe the issues in risk assessment and management of autism spectrum disorders in secure hospital settings with reference to best practice guidance.

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Rapid risk assessment in acute hospital for patients with intellectual disabilities

Stevie Read, Tristan Johnson

There is significant literature to demonstrate that people with intellectual disabilities are at higher risk of premature death, however there is relatively little evidence of…

Cover of Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities

ISSN:

2044-1282

e-ISSN:

2044-1290

ISSN-L:

2044-1282

Online date, start – end:

2010

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Sujeet Jaydeokar