Positive Risk Taking: A Framework for Practice

Learning about Mental Health Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 195-212

  Felton, Anne ^a   Stacey, Gemma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical risk assessment tools; Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness; Health care delivery; Practice based scenarios; Safety and positive risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 82455185607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470699300.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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