Preventing the unpredicted: Managing violence risk in mental health care

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 191-193

  Swanson, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; MENTAL PATIENT; PREDICTION; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; VIOLENCE; ARTICLE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 85047683317     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: 15579700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/ps.2008.59.2.191     Document Type: Review

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