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Risk assessment. “A word to the wise”?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Morris Vinestock
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Risk assessment is in vogue clinically and politically. The term is used in two ways. It refers to a method of balancing probable consequences of decisions which formalises the decision-making process. In psychiatry, it usually refers to the same method focused on the current clinical practice of assessing the risks of harm to self or others.

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Research Article
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Advances in Psychiatric Treatment , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 3 - 10
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 1996 

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