Risk assessment is in vogue clinically and politically. The term is used in two ways. It refers to a method of balancing probable consequences of decisions which formalises the decision-making process. In psychiatry, it usually refers to the same method focused on the current clinical practice of assessing the risks of harm to self or others.
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Morris Vinestock (1996) studied this question.
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