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Book SynopsisIn Managing Uncertainty in Mental Health Care, Drs. Patricia Rockman and José Silveira advocate for refocusing mental health care priorities to mitigating harm using a novel transdiagnostic approach that accounts for inevitable assessment errors.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Uncertainty and the Incompatible Certainty Bias 2. The Brain as a Complex Adaptive System 3. Complexity in Clinical Practice 4. Limitations of Prioritizing Diagnosis 5. Diagnostic Errors in Practice 6. Confidence Versus Error 7. Mitigating Diagnostic Error Through Transdiagnostic Approaches 8. Priorities in Risk Assessment 9. Broadening Our View of Risk 10. A Novel Approach to Risk Identification 11. Uncertainty as Teacher: Education, Training, and Practice Appendices Appendix 1. The Risk, Function, and Symptom Matrices Appendix 2. Risk at a Glance Appendix 3. Centre for Effective Practice-Keeping Your Patients Safe: A Guide to Primary Care Management of Mental Health and Addictions-Related Risks and Functional Impairments Index
