Description
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive guide to assessment, management, understanding, and treatment of violent patients. The first section encompasses practical guides to treatment for both children and adults. The second section delves into a more conceptual and broadly focused approach to understanding violent patients.
Trade ReviewA most useful guide to practitioners in daily clinical contact with highly distressed and disturbed patients.
* American Journal of Psychiatry *
In summary, this book provides a good introduction to the topic of violence among psychiatric patients. Its strongest chapters point to the valuable contribution that skills-based psychological approaches can make in the treatment and management of these patients.
* Contemporary Psychology *
This book will be quite helpful for those engaged in the inpatient treatment of violent patients, especially long-term inpatients.
* American Journal of Psychotherapy *
Table of ContentsContributors
Introduction to the Progress in Psychiatry Series
Introduction
Section I: Treatment Strategies for Violent Patients
Chapter 1. A brief guide to the assessment and pharmacological treatment of violent adult psychiatric inpatients
Chapter 2. Assessment and treatment of abnormal aggression in children and adolescents
Chapter 3. Managing acutely violent inpatients
Chapter 4. Behavior therapy for aggressive psychiatric patients
Chapter 5. A social-learning approach to reducing aggressive behavior among chronically hospitalized psychiatric patients
Section II: Approaches to Understanding Violent Patients
Chapter 6. Videotape recording of assaults on a secure unit of a large state psychiatric hospital
Chapter 7. Violence and dissociation
Chapter 8. Impulse control: integrative aspects
Chapter 9. Violence and mental disorders: recent research
Index
