ABSTRACT
Addressing low-risk behavioural excesses is all too often not a priority area for services or clinicians. A number of components of the Cognitive Approach to Risk Management (CARM) model provide opportunities to address such behaviours. The aim, however, is not simply to reduce these behaviours for their own sake or make management of them easier (although the latter may be desirable as it will likely engender better engagement with the treating team or carers), but rather to increase the use of more prosocial or functional behaviours thereby enabling the individual to lead an ordinary life and achieve, what for them, is some level of recovery. These are the guiding principles under which we employ the behavioural techniques and other strategies outlined in this and successive chapters.
