Psychiatric Patient Assaults and the Staff Victims: An Introduction
This brief paper presents an introductory overview of three papers on psychiatric patient assailants. The papers include the characteristics of patient assailants, precipitants to such assaults, and the characteristics of the staff victims of these assaults. The flexibility of the Assaulted Staff Ac...
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Published in | Psychiatric quarterly |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
14.10.2010
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Summary: | This brief paper presents an introductory overview of three papers on psychiatric patient assailants. The papers include the characteristics of patient assailants, precipitants to such assaults, and the characteristics of the staff victims of these assaults. The flexibility of the Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP) to address staff victims' post-incident psychological needs is discussed. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0033-2720 1573-6709 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11126-010-9159-6 |