With Essential Writings in Violence Risk Assessment and Management, mental health and legal practitioners have quick access to the most important peer-reviewed writings in this field. The 31 journal articles and book chapters in this collection provide a complete foundational curriculum on the subject.

Hy Bloom, BA, LL.B., MD, FRCP(C) is a director of workplace.calm, inc., consultants in Workplace Conflict and Violence Prevention and Management, and is the Managing Associate of the Central Branch of the PSILEX Group, Consultants in Behavioural Sciences and the Law. He is also a part-time staff member of the Law and Mental Health Program at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto, and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McMaster University. Dr. Bloom received his LL.B. from McGill University in 1978, and his MD from McMaster University in 1984. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1980. He has published on a number of topics in psychiatry and the law. He has co-authored one book, Defending Mentally Disordered Persons (Toronto: Carswell, 1995), and co-edited a book, entitled A Practical Guide to Mental Health Capacity and Consent Law of Ontario (Toronto: Carswell, 1996). Dr. Bloom has served as a psychiatric consultant to a number of public and private sector organizations on the subject of workplace conflict and violence, and has lectured and written on the topic.

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Christopher D. Webster, PhD, FRSC, C.Psych. is a Professor of Psychiatry and Criminology at the University of Toronto and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. From 1993 to 1997 he was Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser. Most of his earlier professional career was spent at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto where he held a variety of research, teaching and administrative positions. He is mainly known for his work on the prediction of violence in mentally and personality disordered patients and prisoners. In addition to several books and numerous articles, he has, in recent years, published with colleagues in Vancouver and Toronto a number of practical manuals for use by mental health and correctional practitioners that focus on the broad-based screening of violence (HCR-20), sex offenders (SVR-20), and aggressive boys under 12 years old (EARL-20B). The approach underlying these manuals has been to draw clinicians and researchers together in order to establish guides that are scientifically defensible and based on sound professional practice. Since 1997 he has developed an international research and training consulting practice in the area of risk assessment and management.

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