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Personalisation in recovery and risk assessment

Dieneke Hubbeling

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Personalisation of mental healthcare is essential for the recovery approach whereby service users are encouraged to discover what works for them and what they can do to try to live the life they want to live despite still experiencing some effects of their illness. However, there is a tension between service users making their own decisions and the increased risk of violence in people with mental illness, even though the actual risk is quite small. Furthermore, mental health professionals are not able to reliably identify future risk and the effect of treatment is still unclear. A possible solution worth exploring will be to incorporate the risk assessment in the recovery and personalisation approach, which includes discussing the possibility of violent acts with service users and what they think would work for them in preventing them.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/ejpch.v1i1.648

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