Workplace violence and psychiatric practice.
The authors provide an overview of what is known about workplace violence and discuss how to deal with issues of workplace violence that arise in clinical practice. They review myths and facts about workplace violence, including research on prevention. Legal issues relating to the psychiatrist as employer and the Americans with Disability Act are presented. General principles of violence assessment are reviewed and the authors then discuss the psychiatrist as consultant to the workplace and as clinician treating a victim or perpetrator of workplace violence. Three cases illustrate the general principles provided.
Beck
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JC
Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Hospital, MA 02114, USA. james_beck@hms.harvard.edu
Schouten
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D000328:Adult; D017007:Duty to Warn; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards*; D012737:Sex Factors; D014481:United States; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D017132:Workplace