Risk Decision-making

Steve Morgan author of Risk Decision-making Steve Morgan worked as an occupational therapist on an acute inpatient unit in the mid-1980s before taking up roles in community mental health and assertive outreach in inner-city London services from 1987 to 1997. He spent seven years working in the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health training section before leaving in October 2001 to establish his own practice development consultancy: Practice Based Evidence. He gained an MA in Practice Development in Mental Health in 1998, with the National Centre for Work Based Learning at Middlesex University.

- Chapter 1: Introduction - Chapter 2: Developing a risk training strategy - Chapter 3: Principles into practice - Chapter 4: Person-centred practice - Chapter 5: Working with risk - Chapter 6: Positive risk-taking - Chapter 7: Risk decision-making - Chapter 8: Organisation culture - Chapter 9: Working with suicide and self-harm The risk resources include: 1. Working with risk: the current situation 2. Working with risk: detailed review 3. Risk decision-making: checklist and format 4. Aide memoire for health and social care services 5. Service User Personal Safety Plan 6. Implementing principles of best practice Implementing Department of Health principles of best practice.