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Taylor & Francis Medical Management of the Violent Patient Clinical Assessment and Therapy 1999 Edition by Kenneth Tardiff
This groundbreaking reference provides comprehensive and up-to-date guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of violent patients, introducing a wide range of causes of acute and long-term violence and suggesting pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic strategies. Presents verbal deescalation and physical defense techniques! Pooling the research of over 25 leading experts, Medical Management of the Violent Patient describes the link between patient violence and psychiatric disorders, including personality, mood, and psychotic disorders and mental retardation reviews violence-related neurological and medical disorders, such as dementia, traumatic brain injury, congenital brain disorders, epilepsy, encephalitis, AIDS, and many others recalls actual malpractice cases where prediction of violence was an issue offers advice for the use of seclusion and restraint to handle violence as it is occurring discusses the use of antipsychotics, benzodiazepines, lithium, anticonvulsants, beta-blockers, and other medications analyzes the violent patient's and the clinician's emotional reactions to each other highlights the psychotherapeutic treatment of violent patients using individual, couples/family, and group modalities profiles the correlation of violence and suicide among psychiatric patients and prisoners and much more! Including over 1500 references, tables, and drawings, Medical Management of the Violent Patient benefits psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical neurologists, primary care physicians, social workers, nurses, emergency room personnel, lawyers, and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines. Table of contents :- Developmental Factors of Violence, Shulamit GlaubachViolence in America: Social and Environmental Factors, Robert T. M. PhillipsNeurotransmitters and Violence, Serena-Lynn BrownNeurological and Medical Diseases and Violence, Karen E. Anderson and Jonathan M. SilverPsychiatric Disorders and Violence, Leslie Citrome and Jan VolavkaSubstance Abuse and Violence, Jan Volavka and Kenneth TardiffEvaluation of Violent Patients, William H. ReidPrediction of Violence, Kenneth TardiffClinician Safety, William R. DubinAcute Management of Violent Patients, Kenneth TardiffLong-Term Medication for Violent Patients, Burr S. Eichelman and Kenneth TardiffPsychological Issues in Treatment: Transference and Countertransference, Gary J. MaierPsychotherapeutic Treatment of Violence, Marilyn Lewis LanzaPosttraumatic Stress Disorders in Victims of Violence, Matthew J. FriedmanDomestic Violence, Leah J. DicksteinRape and Sexual Assault of Adult Women, Dawn M. Hughes and Marylene CloitrePatterns of Violence Transmission in Physically and Sexually Abused Children, Arthur H. GreenThe Clinician's Legal Duties When the Patient May Be Violent, James C. Beck and Pat CerundoloViolence Prevention at Work, Carol W. WilkinsonViolence and Suicidal Behavior: What Is the Link?, Peter M. Marzuk