Risk assessment: Predicting physical aggression in child psychiatric inpatient units

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 638-645

  Phillips, Natalie Lynette ^a   Stargatt, Robyn ^a,b   Fisher, Leeanne ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

aggression; child; inpatient; mental disorders; risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CRITICAL INCIDENTS METHOD; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENTAL PATIENT; MOOD; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80052255807     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048674.2011.587396     Document Type: Article

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