NCJ Number
100728
Editor(s)
J R Lion,
W H Reid
Date Published
1983
Length
322 pages
Annotation
Twenty articles on assaults within psychiatric Twenty articles on assaults within psychiatric facilities focus on phenomenology and epidemiology, policy issues, and management intervention to prevent and respond to assaults.
Abstract
Articles on phenomenology and epidemiology examine aspects of assaults in various types of psychiatric facilities, including public and private mental hospitals, a university hospital, a general hospital, and forensic psychiatric facilities. Assaultive behavior is examined for female psychiatric inpatients and chronic patients in a State hospital system. The frequency and characteristics of violence in psychiatric facilities are principal foci of the studies. One paper compares violence in psychiatric facilities in Europe and the United States. Articles on policy issues consider security personnel's role in a psychiatric facility, administrative monitoring of assaultive patients and staff, legal considerations in preventing and treating assault, and worker's compensation protection for assaults on staff. Articles pertaining to management examine violence prevention in psychiatric facilities, nursing intervention, seclusion, and restraint in managing assaultive patients; aspects of psychopharmacology; the effect of milieu on assaults; and physical contact skills in preventing and managing assaults. Chapter references and subject index.