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Psychopathology and violent behaviour in psychiatric intensive care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Clive E. Hyde ,
G. Waller  and
E. Wyn-Pugh
Clive E. Hyde
Affiliation:
University Hospital of South Manchester, West Didsbury, Manchester M20 8LR
G. Waller
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham
E. Wyn-Pugh
Affiliation:
North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester M8 6RL
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This study considered the use of staff observation and patient's self-ratings of subjective psychopathology on admission to a psychiatric intensive care unit. The aim was to evaluate these measures as a means of predicting subsequent assaults and self-injury during the patients' stay on the ward. Few studies have shown a relationship between subjective experience and observable violent behaviour although some have found a correlation with ‘violence potential’. Eichelman & Hartwig (1990) have suggested the use of the SCL-90 hostility subscale, although doubts have been expressed about the ability of psychotic patients to complete such questionnaires reliably. The usefulness of both patients' self-ratings and staff observation would lie in their ability to help staff predict violence and self-injury and to take appropriate action.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 16 , Issue 9 , September 1992 , pp. 536 - 537
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992

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