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"How dangerous to others are people diagnosed as "mentally ill", and how dangerous to them is such a diagnosis?"
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Karen Scorer TMA02 Mental Health and Distress K257 R2492501 April 2001 "How dangerous to others are people diagnosed as "mentally ill", and how dangerous to them is such a diagnosis?" Dangerous can be defined as: "The probability that an individual will commit a violent act upon the person of another (or others) in the near or distant future, if afforded the opportunity to do so." Lyttle (1994) Within our society those with a diagnosis of mental illness are often portrayed as more violent than the rest of us. This stereotyping is reinforced through the media with stories of violence and murder by psychiatric patients. The government has the responsibility of managing, assessing and predicting risk, helping to protect society from potential harm. Predicting the risk individual poses to themselves and/or the rest of society is achieved through a risk assessment. The risk assessment process that includes previous records on the individual with previous risks...
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