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. ...
This interactive workshop discusses the co-produced findings of a systematic review for the NIHR funded project ImprovE-ACT. The focus of the review was to find out about the lived experiences of Black males who have been detained under Mental Health legislation. Through our partnership with...
A Clinical Joint Crisis Plan (CJCP) aims to empower patients and strengthen the therapeutic relationships while preventing degeneration of a psychiatric crisis and reducing coercive measures. It contains personal and patient tailored interventions that are linked to personal characteristics of the various phases of a...
The Dutch Centre for Consultation and Expertise (CCE) is available to support refractory cases in Mental Healthcare Services.This descriptive mixed methods study gains insight into the commonalities underlying the reasons of 472 consultations and the solutions proposed that play roles in (the reduction of) refractory...
Background: Registries for coercive measures, and, to a smaller extent, for violent incidents, have been established in several European countries and in the US. In the German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, such a registry based on Mental Health Law is available since 2015. Objectives: To answer...
Preventing work-related violence (PREWVI) is a participatory action research project that aims to develop and implement an employee-driven intervention in mental healthcare. A pilot project was established at Lovisenberg hospital March 2021. Data on work-environment, employee health, work-related violence and utilization of preventive tools were...
Background: In the time period from 2015-2019, a national collaborative effort took place between all the health regions in Norway. The project resulted in the staff-training program “MAP”.Aims: The projects intention was to achieve a national standard for teaching violence prevention to mental health staff....
The aim of this study is to understand the perceptions of schools´ professionals and families from a high social vulnerability area in Brazil about violence against children and adolescents in the COVID-19 pandemic. Qualitative study, conducted in a Brazilian high social vulnerability area with 17...
We describe the relationship between exposure to stigmatization, and violence against healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic and their mental health. Our respondents (in summer 2020 was n=929; in the spring 2021 was n=1206) experienced stigma/discrimination and violence due to being...
We performed a retrospective analysis of the use of coersive measures in a large psychiatric hospital association in Northrhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany, before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. We found an overall decrease in case numbers, but increases of cases with involuntary hospitalisation according to the...