What is the evidence base for risk as we know it? Isn’t an evidence base meant to be something constructive and supportive for practitioners to use in their judgements and interventions? This article (unpublished) explains the impact of a blame culture, and recommends how we should shift to a strengths-based and positive risk-taking agenda as a more constructive way of working with risk.
PDF: A Challenge to Evidence Based Practice: Reshaping the Risk Agenda
The PowerPoint presentation: ‘Risk Assessment and Management: The Role of Evidence, Politics and Practice’ was developed for an invitation to present at the Royal College of Psychiatrists AGM ON 4th July 2008. Due to illness I was unable to attend, but the presentation is available to be viewed.
Powerpoint: Risk Assessment and Management: The Role of Evidence, Politics and Practice
To read the report above you will need free software called Adobe Reader. This software can be downloaded here.