Multidisciplinary and focused assessment, treatment, and discharge planning can be effective in neutralizing the risk of firearms use among psychiatric patients.

Best practices are recommended for assessing risk of violence and utilizing those findings to communicate with other mental health providers to manage the potential for violence as clients are transferred or referred. These recommendations are the fruition of a five-year collaboration of the Forensic Risk Assessment Work Group of the Ohio Department of Mental Health's statewide Forensic Product Line Leadership Team. Accurate assessment of static and dynamic risk factors, effective communication of risk of violence, incorporation of dynamic risk factors into the treatment planning process, and implementation of evidence-based risk-management practices are all emphasized as best practices.

Best practices are recommended for assessing risk of violence and utilizing those findings to communicate with other mental health providers to manage the potential for violence as clients are transferred or referred. These recommendations are the fruition of a five-year collaboration of the Forensic Risk Assessment Work Group of the Ohio Department of Mental Health's statewide Forensic Product Line Leadership Team. Accurate assessment of static and dynamic risk factors, effective communication of risk of violence, incorporation of dynamic risk factors into the treatment planning process, and implementation of evidence-based risk-management practices are all emphasized as best practices.