Essential reading for all mental heath professionals
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Tony Maden's book is excellent, well written, easy to finish and where appropriate funny- not an easy combination in the growing world of books on violence risk assessment. I recommend it to all the junior doctors who are placed at our hospital- for them it simply deals with all the main issues regarding risk assessment. Here in the UK that means that it is as much about believing that there is a reason to do that as much as a how. For forensic consultants and more senior forensic trainees the book may/should not add any more information but is does very eloquently set out the forensic stall.
That said I found the title a bit misleading I was expecting a book that dealt with the specific treatment of violence (which I think was reasonable). Of course what I got was more of a comprehensive reason why patients presenting with violence as a problem should or rather must be treated and given access to care rather than excluded on spurious grounds.
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