Characteristics of assaultive psychiatric patients: Fifteen-year analysis of the Assaulted Staff Action Program (ASAP)

Psychiatric Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 239-249

  Flannery Jr , Raymond B ^a   Juliano, Jerry ^b   Cronin, Susan ^b   Walker, Andrew P ^c  

^a Worcester State Hospital   (United States)

^b Department of Mental Health ^*

^c Massachusetts Department of Mental Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Assaulted staff action program (ASAP); Assaults; Characteristics; Patients

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ADULT; CRISIS INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PATIENTS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33748765253     PISSN: 00332720     EISSN: 15736709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11126-006-9011-1     Document Type: Article

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