Tag: teamwork
Managing tail risk in psychiatry – collaborative mapping
Too often in psychiatry we are faced with the problem of tail risk. The basic idea is ‘low probability high impact‘ events. This commonly presents among relatively stable patients in contrast to patients in an acute phase of disturbance. Some patients may have an established pattern of only one or two short-lived periods of disturbance per year where they present risks of suicide, homicide or violence, or arson. In any of those short-lived blips it is possible that serious harmRead More …
Disorders of intellectual development
Preamble The important words here are ‘intellectual’ and ‘development’. Many ordinary people are aware of a concept of delayed or arrested cognitive development that is referred to as learning disability. This article will abbreviate ‘disorders of intellectual development‘ to DOID. this post is not about acquired intellectual disability but some of the issues may apply. There is a tendency in an increasingly ‘woke’ environment of media and social media, to refer to these things as ‘issues’ rather than ‘problems’. IRead More …