Discuss issues of complexity, risk and harm in mental health.

With mental health when looking into what they see as high risk is mostly harm to yourself or to someone else, as well as attempted suicide and neglect to one in drinking and eating. Many organisations and services have different ways in how to look at these risks but they are seen as high priority in many risk assessments. Cited in the K272 reading, Worthing priority care NHS trust shows an example of how they do their risk assessments with using like a score chart. The chart is added up and at the end shows if the client is at risk in a low, moderate or severe way.

Risk assessments can have good outcomes as well as bad outcomes, with seeing the risks that may occur, professionals and the service users can than work together to prevent any risks taking place in the future, as well as distinguishing the cause of the risks that take place. To also help maintain and control any harm tha…(short extract)