Research Catalog

Title

Understanding and treating violent psychiatric patients / edited by Martha L. Crowner.

Publication

Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Crowner, Martha, 1956-

Description

xii, 192 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Progress in psychiatry ; #60

Uniform Title

Progress in psychiatry series ; #60.

Subjects

• Patients
• Mental Health Services
• Violence in psychiatric hospitals
• Psychiatric hospital care
• Hospitals, Psychiatric
• Psychiatric hospital patients

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction to the Progress in Psychiatry Series / David Spiegel -- Introduction / Martha L. Crowner -- Sect. I. Treatment Strategies for Violent Patients. 1. A brief Guide to the Assessment and Pharmacological Treatment of Violent Adult Psychiatric Inpatients / Martha L. Crowner. 2. Assessment and Treatment of Abnormal Aggression in Children and Adolescents / Richard P. Malone. 3. Managing Acutely Violent Inpatients / Laura Jane Bernay and Devitt J. Elverson. 4. Behavior Therapy for Aggressive Psychiatric Patients / Patrick W. Corrigan and Kim T. Mueser. 5. A Social-Learning Approach to Reducing Aggressive Behavior Among Chronically Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients / Anthony A. Menditto, Niels C. Beck and Paul Stuve -- Sect. II. Approaches to Understanding Violent Patients. 6. Videotape Recording of Assaults on a Secure Unit of a Large State Psychiatric Hospital / Martha L. Crowner. 7. Violence and Dissociation / A. Jonathan Porteus and Zebulon Taintor.
• 8. Impulse Control: Integrative Aspects / Menahem Krakowski. 9. Violence and Mental Disorder: Recent Research / John Monahan.

ISBN

0880487526

LCCN

99049869

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries