Risk assessment in psychiatry
Subtitle: a guide for lawyers
By: B. Mahendra
Publisher: Jordans/Family Law
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bristol
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781846611094
Subjects: Mental health laws; Forensic psychiatry; Risk assessment; Behavioral assessment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-270) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nature and scope of psychiatric disorder; title: Organic mental disorders; title: Psychotic disorders; title: Disorders of mood; title: The neuroses; title: Disorders of dependence and appetite; title: Disorders of personality and psychopathy; title: Learning disabilities and developmental disorders; title: Special situations and unusual disorders; title: Risk assessment of violence; title: Risk assessment in family and child law practice; title: Risk assessment in employment; title: Risk assessment in post-traumatic states; title: Risk assessment of changing mental states; title: Risk assessment of nuisance behaviour; title: Appendix 1. Practice direction: experts in family proceedings relating to children; title: Appendix 2. Disability Discrimination Act 1995, pt. 1; title: Appendix 3. Hatton v. Sutherland; Barber v. Somerset County Council; Jones v. Refractories Ltd [2002] EWCA Civ 76; title: Appendix 4. Mental Capacity Act 2005, pt.1.