1st Edition
The Handbook of Forensic Learning Disabilities
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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This comprehensive and practical guide helps professionals and staff within hospitals change the way they collect record store and use clinical information about patients. It illustrates how clinical governance and evidence-based practice can be easily addressed by modernising clinical information practice to benefit patients and improve staff and service efficiency. As well as helping... Read more
The policy context. Epidemiology of offending in learning disability. Sexual offending in people with learning disabilities. Arson and learning disability. Working with people with aggressive behavior. Self-injurious behaviour and deliberate self-harm. Risk assessment and management. Criminal justice liaison. Mental health law. Organisational culture and its impact on service delivery. Resettlement from secure learning disability services.
Biography
Tim Riding Network Director, Secure Services Chair, Lancashire Mentally Disordered Offenders Coordinating Group; Lancashire Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements Strategic Management Board; Honorary Lecturer, John Moores University, Liverpool; Lancashire Care NHS Trust, Preston, Lancashire. Caron Swann Senior Lecturer in Learning Disabilities, St Martin’s College, Lancaster, Honorary Practitioner, Calderstones NHS Trust, Whalley, Lancashire. Bob Swann Assistant Director, Clinical Governance and Professional Development; Preston Primary Care Trust Committee Member, The Clinical Governance Association.
