Risk Assessment and Risk Management in Mental Health Settings

Question 1

Violence

Answer 1

The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation

Question 2

Self-directed violence

Answer 2

refers to violence in which the perpetrator and the victim are the same individual and is subdivided into self-abuse and suicide.

Question 3

Interpersonal violence

Answer 3

refers to violence between individuals (an individual harms another individual), and is subdivided into:

Family and intimate partner violence: includes child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, and elder abuse.

Community violence: broken down into acquaintance and stranger violence and includes youth violence, assault by strangers, violence related to property crimes, and violence in workplaces and other institutions (including work places).

Question 4

Collective violence

Answer 4

refers to violence committed by larger groups of individuals to either one individual or a group of people and can be subdivided into social, political and economic violence.

Question 5

—Parasuicide

Answer 5

act that mimics the act of suicide but does not result in death