Risk, Recovery and Capacity
Competing or Complementary Approaches to Mental Health Social Work
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11958642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gavin Davidson (0000-0001-6003-0170, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author), Lisa Brophy (0000-0001-6460-3490, Mind Australia), Jim Campbell (0000-0002-2702-1122, Social Justice Ireland) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 158-168 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0312-407X • E-ISSN: 1447-0748 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0312407x.2015.1126752 |
| OpenAlex | W2277049137 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 41 |
Mental health social workers have a central role in providing support to people with mental health problems and in the use of coercion aimed at dealing with risk. Mental health services have traditionally focused on monitoring symptoms and ascertaining the risks people may present to themselves or others. This well-intentioned but negative focus on deficits has contributed to stigma, discrimination, and exclusion experienced by service users. Emerging understandings of risk also suggest that our inability to accurately predict the future makes risk a problematic foundation for compulsory intervention. Therefore it is argued that alternative approaches are needed to make issues of power and inequality transparent. This article focuses on two areas of practice: the use of recovery-based approaches, which promote supported decision-making and inclusion; and the assessment of a person's ability to make decisions, their mental capacity, as a less discriminatory gateway criterion than risk for compulsory intervention
Coercion (linguistics · Economic growth · Economics · Inclusion (mineral · Inequality · Intervention (counseling · Mental health · Mental illness · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public relations · Social exclusion · Stigma (botany · Applied Psychology · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Homelessness and Social Issues · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Work
Development of a culturally safe recovery-oriented mental health practice
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Clinician Perspectives of the Evidence Underpinning Suicide Risk Assessment
Community Treatment Orders and Supported Decision-Making
Engaging with Transformative Paradigms in Mental Health
Constructing the Elements of the “Recovery in” Model through Positive Assessments during Mental Health Home Visits
A rejection of involuntary treatment in mental health social work
How experienced social workers apply recovery-oriented mental health policies in everyday practice
Managing Risk in the Pro-Empowerment Era of Mental Health Care
Accounting for Social Perspectives
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Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm
Recovery as a journey of the heart.
The mainstreaming of recovery
Exploring the risk management strategies of mental health service users
Social work, class politics and risk in the moral panic over Baby P
Challenging assumptions about risk factors and the role of screening for violence risk in the field of mental health
Risk Society
Recovery from Mental Illness as an Emergent Concept and Practice in Australia and the UK
Uncovering Recovery
Coercion in the Community
Social Inclusion and Individualised Service Provision in High Risk Community Care
Taking a stand or playing it safe
Risk and new exclusions in community mental health practice
Beyond Balancing Competing Needs
Risk and Social Work Practice
Using Social Work Theory and Values to Investigate the Implementation of Community Treatment Orders
Deciding to Detain
Risk, Hope and Recovery
Adult Mental Health in a Changing International Context
Open Dialogue and its Relevance to the NHS
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |