Managing crisis and risk in mental health nursing / edited by Tony Ryan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1: Contextual and decision-making issues in crisis and risk management:- 1. Risk knowledge and mental health nursing-- 2. Inquiries into the care of the mentally ill people: the lessons -- 3. Policy and legislation in the management of crisis and risk -- 4.Organizational responses to crisis and risk: issues and implications for mental health nurses-- PART 2: Clinical nursing practice for crisis and risk management:- 5. Crisis and risks associated with depression -- 6. Manic depression: nursing management of crisis and risk-- 7. Crisis and risks associated with depression -- 8. Risk management of mentally disordered offenders in the community-- 9. Crisis intervention and risk management with sex offenders -- PART 3: Special considerations for mental health nurses who manage crisis and risk:- 10. Risk assessment in the context of mental health care: some moral considerations-- 11. Mental health service users and risk -- 12. The role of psychopharmacology in managing crisis and risk-- 13. Issues in clinical and actuarial assessment of crisis and risk.

A guide for practising mental-health nurses in defining, managing and assessing risk concerned with people with mental-health needs. It examines the development of services and current methods of risk assessment and management.