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- Quick Reference Material
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Essential mental health nursing skills
- Chapter 3 Interventions
- Chapter 4 Violence
- Chapter 5 Risk
- Chapter 6 Common mental disorders
- Chapter 7 Mental Health Act
- Chapter 8 Medications
- Chapter 9 Culture
- Chapter 10 Older people
- Chapter 11 Leadership
- Chapter 12 Evidence-based mental health nursing
- Chapter 13 Research
- Chapter 14 Liaison mental health services
- Chapter 15 National Occupational Standards for Mental Health
- Chapter 16 Essential Shared Capabilities
- Index
(p. 181) Violence
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Violence
- Chapter:
- (p. 181) Violence
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780198568988.003.0004
Recognizing violence 182
Preventing violence 184
Therapeutic management of violence 186
Post-violence incident analysis and management 188
Violence risk assessment has two main timescales:
Short-term
prediction of the likelihood of imminent violence (i.e. hours or minutes).Long-term
prediction (i.e. days, months, or years)....Access to the complete content on Oxford Medicine Online requires a subscription or purchase. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts for each book and chapter without a subscription.
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- Quick Reference Material
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Essential mental health nursing skills
- Chapter 3 Interventions
- Chapter 4 Violence
- Chapter 5 Risk
- Chapter 6 Common mental disorders
- Chapter 7 Mental Health Act
- Chapter 8 Medications
- Chapter 9 Culture
- Chapter 10 Older people
- Chapter 11 Leadership
- Chapter 12 Evidence-based mental health nursing
- Chapter 13 Research
- Chapter 14 Liaison mental health services
- Chapter 15 National Occupational Standards for Mental Health
- Chapter 16 Essential Shared Capabilities
- Index