title: Assessment and management of the violent patient.
abstract: This article provides guidance on how to manage the unavoidable challenge of aggression in psychiatric relationships. Accordingly, this article addresses issues of personal safety and how to manage potentially violent patients, defuse situations that threaten imminent violence, and manage emergent violence. In addition, a useful chart is highlighted that differentiates different types of violence.
authors.affiliation: Community Mental Health Council, Inc., Chicago, Illinois 60617, USA.
authors.forename: C C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Bell
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*