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What is a mental health risk assessment?

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Dr. Missid Ghanem answered

Specializes in Clinical Psychology

See below...: A basic mental health risk assessment (mhra) assesses risk factors such as ideation or planning of causing harm to self or others. A more comprehensive such assessment would also attend to risk behaviors such as "cutting", substance abuse, child or elderly neglect or abuse, self neglect.

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