There is so much bouncing around on Acute Behavioural Disturbance, including on this website where I have done various blogs, links to Preventing Future Death reports, publications from various medical and healthcare Royal Colleges and other bodies, that even I’ve become fed up using my own website to find stuff when I want it! So […]

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Many times over the last twenty-odd years I’ve heard it said that police officers, when it comes to risk management of mental health, are “risk averse“.  For example, faced with someone who has expressed suicidal ideas, it has been known for feedback to be officers are sometimes too quick and too keen to resort to […]

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You can read my substantive tribute to AMHPs who go AMHPing in my 2017 post which attempts to explain their role from an outsider’s point of view.  Whenever I mention Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) for the first time in a new blog post, I give this link so people can read about the role […]

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