... proposes an inverse relationship between the sizes of psychiatric inpatient and prison populations, individuals discharged from inpatient care are also at higher risk of reception into prison custody because of a process of trans-institutionalisation (Penrose, 1939). Although for some time the evidence...

... perceived to be at risk of harming myself. One year after I was discharged in the Spring of 2009, the South Staffordshire and Shropshire Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust announced consideration of closing the centre as part of a strategic review of mental health-care provision...

...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...

...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...

... 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...