title: Managing the 'manipulative' patient--a different perspective.
abstract: Recent ideas about education suggest that all human behaviour can be seen as an attempt to manipulate other people or the environment. Nurses may use these ideas to find better ways of managing 'manipulative' behaviour.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008257:Machiavellianism; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000523:psychology