Risk, Hope and Recovery: Converging Paradigms for Mental Health Approaches with Suicidal Clients

The management of risk in the work with people with suicidal thoughts and behaviours is fraught with difficulties. Across the globe, deaths by suicide have been increasing and social workers are often on the front lines of suicide prevention. In response to heightened risk and vulnerability, many agency and national policies reflect a risk-dominated paradigm of practice. At the same time, the recovery movement has been influential in the move...