... 24 02 2026 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Framework Abuse Institution Risk Following the broadcast of the BBC Panorama documentary Undercover Hospital: Patients at Risk in 2022 which brought...

... 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Familiar stranger Ontological insecurity Self-identity Autoethnography Mental health institutional closures Deinstitutionalisation Place of safety Risk Training and education As I pick up the remote control to turn off...

...Patrick Joseph Sullivan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to consider some of the legal implications of adopting a harm minimisation approach in supporting people who self-injure within inpatient mental health units. It is argued that a focus on risk and the increasing influence of the law...

...Anne Felton; Theo Stickley Purpose The assessment and management of risk is central to contemporary mental health practice. The emergence of recovery has contributed to demands for more service user centred approaches to risk. The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of narrative...

... to respond to perceived risk. Design/methodology/approach An Appreciative Inquiry study was used, which collected data with 58 participants in focus group and individual interviews. Interviews focussed on ways in which older people in South Africa, Australia, Germany and the UK understand and seek...

...Giles Newton-Howes Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the perceptions of risk from the viewpoint of the psychiatrist, in the context of the expectations of patients, staff and society. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a reflection on clinical practice and narrative review...

...-harm is a relatively common experience for a cohort of people who present to the mental health services and is, therefore, a phenomenon that mental health nurses will be familiar with. Traditionally, however, mental health nurses’ responses to people who self-harm have been largely framed by a risk...