Service user aggression and violence are associated with great costs and can cause injuries, absence, dissatisfaction and high turnover, and hence negatively influence quality of services.The MAP is a comprehensive staff education programme developed to help prevent and manage aggression and violence. The pilot study...
The most frequently used evaluating instrument for evaluation training in psychiatry is the Thackrey Scale (1987) that focuses on coping with violent patient in psychiatry. There is no such official evaluation scale for this problem in the Czech Republic. We wanted to examine the internal...
Background: A compelling body of evidence consistently identifies aggression and violence as a complex hazard within the health sector. Despite universal recognition, the problem remains understudied, particularly in relation to psychiatrists. ...
Through using the Experience Sampling Method for nurses working on a High Intensive Care Unit in a large psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands different factors from the staff and the ward were studied to establish their association with the development of aggression within a naturalistic...
To our knowledge there are no validated instruments for violence risk screening among adolescents. Therefore, a new screening instrument, Violence Risk Screening for Youth (VRISK-Y) was developed for emergency settings to help assess the risk for violence among adolescents aged 12-18 years. The present study...
There is little consensus regarding the content or teaching methodology, of training for frontline personnel in the management of aggression within mental health. The fidelity of translation of classroom teaching to practice is uncertain, as is the effectiveness of the training in improving safety of...
The aim of this research was to describe inpatients’ ideas on how they would develop current violence risk assessment and management practices. The data collection took place in one PICU unit specialized in the treatment of patients with psychosis and violent behavior. A qualitative descriptive...
With high levels of violence and mental distress, street gangs have been classified as a global public health problem requiring immediate attention. However, current interventions suffer from poor theoretical foundations and risk focus. As such, the applicability of an innovative and strengths-based approach to gang...