Staff members' emotional reactions to aggressive and suicidal behavior of inpatients

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1388-1394

  Rossberg, Jan I ^a   Friis, Svein ^a  

^a ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORWAY; PSYCHIATRY; SCORING SYSTEM; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGGRESSION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 0141508053     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.54.10.1388     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Cooper C: Patient suicide and assault: their impact on psychiatric hospital staff. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing 33:26-29, 1995
2. Lion J, Pasternak S: Countertransference reactions to violent patients. American Journal of Psychiatry 130:207-210, 1973
3. Maier G, Van-Rybroek G: Managing countertransference reactions to aggressive patients, in Patient Violence and the Clinician. Edited by Hartwig AC, Eichelman BS. American Psychiatric Press, 1995
4. Stamm I: Countertransference in hospital treatment: basic concepts and paradigms. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 49:432-450, 1985
5. Cornfield RB, Fielding SD: Impact of the threatening patient on ward communications. American Journal of Psychiatry 137: 616-619, 1980
6. Dubin WR: The role of fantasies, countertransference, and psychological defenses in patient violence. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 40:1280-1283, 1989
7. Harty M: Countertransference patterns in the psychiatric treatment team. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic 43:105-122, 1979
8. Miles MW: The evolution of countertransference and its applicability to nursing. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care 29:13-20, 1993
9. Felthouse AR: Preventing assaults on a psychiatric inpatient ward. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 35:1223-1226, 1984
10. Flannery RB, Hanson MA, Penk WE, et al: Replicated declines in assault rates after implementation of the assaulted staff action program. Psychiatric Services 49:241-243, 1998
11. Maier GJ, Stava LJ, Morrow BR, et al: A model for understanding and managing cycles of aggression among psychiatric inpatients. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 38:520-524, 1987
12. Modestin J: Countertransference reactions contributing to completed suicide. British Journal of Medical Psychology 60:379-385, 1987
13. Maltsberger JT, Buie DH: Countertransference hate in the treatment of suicidal patients. Archives of General Psychiatry 30: 625-633, 1974
14. Lorentzen S, Island TK, Friis S, et al: The Ullevål acute-ward follow-up study: reflections on the treatment of psychotic patients who committed suicide. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 49:5-10, 1995
15. Lehmann LS, McCormick RA, Kizer KW: A survey of assaultive behavior in Veterans Health Administration facilities. Psychiatric Services 50:384-389, 1999
16. Owen C, Tarantello C, Jones M, et al: Violence and aggression in psychiatric units. Psychiatric Services 49:1452-1457, 1998
17. Lanza ML: The reactions of nursing staff to physical assault by a patient. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 34:44-47, 1983
18. Lanza ML: A follow-up study of nurses' reactions to physical assault. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 35:492-494, 1984
19. Erdos BZ, Hughes DH: A review of assaults by patients against staff at psychiatric emergency centers. Psychiatric Services 52: 1175-1177, 2001
20. Matthews LR: Effect of stress debriefing on posttraumatic stress symptoms after assaults by community housing residents. Psychiatric Services 49:207-212, 1998
21. Colson DB, Allen JG, Coyne L, et al: An anatomy of countertransference: staff reactions to difficult psychiatric hospital patients. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 37:923-928, 1986
22. Colson DB, Allen JG, Coyne L, et al: Patterns of staff perception of difficult patients in a long-term psychiatric hospital. Hospital and Community Psychiatry 36:168-172, 1985
23. World Health Organization's Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology: Guidelines for ATC Classification and DDD Assignment. Oslo, Norway, World Health Organization, 1995
24. Rossberg JI, Hoffart A, Friis S: Psychiatric staff members' emotional reactions toward patients: a psychometric evaluation of an extended version of the Feeling Word Checklist (FWC-58). Nordic Journal of Psychiatry 57:45-53, 2003
25. Wistedt B, Rasmussen A, Pedersen L, et al: The development of an observer-scale for measuring social dysfunction and aggression. Pharmacopsychiatry 23:249-252, 1990
26. Lam JN, McNiel DE, Binder RL: The relationship between patients' gender and violence leading to staff injuries. Psychiatric Services 51:1167-1170, 2000
27. McNiel DE, Binder RL. Correlates of accuracy in the assessment of psychiatric patients' risk of violence. American Journal of Psychiatry 152:901-906, 1995
28. McWhyte CR, Constantopoulos C, Bevans HG: Types of countertransference identified by Q-analysis. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 55:187-201, 1982
29. Holmqvist R, Armelius B-Å: Emotional reactions to psychiatric patients: analysis of a feeling checklist. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 90:204-209, 1994
30. Hoffart A, Friis S: Therapists' emotional reaetions to anxious inpatients during integrated behavioral-psychodynamic treatment: a psychometric evaluation of a feeling word checklist. Psychotherapy Research 10:462-473, 2000
31. Main TF: The ailment. British Journal of Medical Psychology 30:129-145, 1957
32. Spielman R: "The ailment," by TF Main: 40 years on. Therapeutic Communities 19: 221-226, 1998