Concise Guide to the Assessment and Management of Violent Patients (Concise Guides / American Psychiatric Press) - Softcover

Tardiff MD MPH, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088048344X ISBN 13: 9780880483445

Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing, 1996

Synopsis

Clinicians encounter violent patients in any treatment setting―from private offices and medical units to psychiatric inpatient units. Written by one of the foremost experts on violence, the second edition of this concise, practical guide provides psychiatry residents, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals with vital information required to manage potentially violent patients. Considerably updated, this book contains current information on psychopharmacology and the management of violent patients, an expanded section on the safety of clinicians, and a new section on how to deal with threats of violence to the clinician. This guide will be especially useful and relevant to psychiatric residents, given the number of violent patients they encounter.

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About the Author

Kenneth Tardiff, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor of Psychiatry and Public Health at the Payne Whitney Clinic, The New York Hospital�Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.

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Clinicians encounter violent patients in any treatment setting -- from private offices and medical units to psychiatric inpatient units. Written by one of the foremost experts on violence, the second edition of this concise, practical guide provides psychiatry residents, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals with vital information required to manage potentially violent patients. Considerably updated, this book contains current information on psychopharmacology and the management of violent patients, an expanded section on the safety of clinicians, and a new section on how to deal with threats of violence to the clinician. This guide will be especially useful and relevant to psychiatric residents, given the number of violent patients they encounter.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Association Publishing
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088048344X
• ISBN 13: 9780880483445
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 180