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Practice Guidelines for the Assessment of Risk for Violent Behaviors during the Psychiatric Evaluation
Published in Kunsook S. Bernstein, Robert Kaplan, Psychiatric Mental Health Assessment and Diagnosis of Adults for Advanced Practice Mental Health Nurses, 2023
Kunsook S. Bernstein, Robert Kaplan
Violence is defined as the intentional threat or actual use of physical force or power against oneself, a group, or a community that results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, and/or deprivation. There are two types of violence: (1) self-directed violence, such as suicide; and (2) other-directed violence, such as aggressive behaviors, including physical aggression or homicide. More than 1.3 million people worldwide die each year as a result of violence in all its forms, accounting for 2.5% of global mortality (World Health Organization [WHO], 2014).
Patient autonomy and criminal law
Published in Paweł Daniluk, Patient Autonomy and Criminal Law, 2023
In Chapter 25, especially the provisions in Sec. 271 to 274 about physical assault, aggravated physical assault, bodily harm and aggravated bodily harm, may target medical treatment without consent. According to Sec. 271, a penalty of a fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year shall be applied to any person who commits an act of violence against another person or otherwise physically assaults him or her. For aggravated physical assault, the sentencing frame is imprisonment for a term not exceeding six years. For bodily harm, a penalty of imprisonment for a term not exceeding six years shall be applied to any person who harms the body or health of another person, renders another person physically helpless or causes unconsciousness or a similar condition to another person. For aggravating bodily harm, which is considered a serious crime, the sentencing frame is imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years.
Improving Health and Well-Being Before, Between and Beyond Pregnancy
Published in Mary Nolan, Shona Gore, Contemporary Issues in Perinatal Education, 2023
Sarah Verbiest, Erin K. McClain
A trauma-informed approach to care is important given the level of violence that women across the globe experience, including intimate partner violence, military sexual trauma, rape and other forms of sexual assault, child abuse and neglect, terrorism, natural disasters, and street violence. Violence, whether physical or emotionally harmful or life-threatening, has lasting adverse effects on a person’s ability to function. Trauma-Informed Care principles include the four Rs: Realize the prevalence of traumatic events and the widespread impact of traumaRecognize the signs and symptoms of traumaRespond by integrating knowledge about trauma into policies, procedures, and practicesResist re-traumatization. It is important for practitioners to understand their own trauma in order to provide this essential care.
Exploring the relationship between intimate partner abuses, resilience, psychological, and physical health problems in Pakistani married couples: a perspective from the collectivistic culture
Published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 2023
Jaffar Abbas, Muhammad Aqeel, Jinzhu Ling, Arash Ziapour, Muhammad Ali Raza, Tasnim Rehna
Carney and Buttell (2006) described that VAW shows supremacy need exposition in the couple's heterosexual relationship. Physical violence results in psychological abuse, physical damage, injury, deprivation, or even death. The cultural constitution configured with the doctrine of thoughts of the male-controlled systems, disrespects, and caged women. In different cultures, a partner's abusive conduct against women is an ordinary domestic matter. In Pakistani culture, it is, in fact, a male-dominant society, where a wife beaten by husbands is a daily affair, and men usually subjugated and enforced women. In this manner, women are victims, disadvantaged, deprived, and threatened (Carney & Buttell, 2006; Reed et al., 2010). Numerous studies indicated that in history until the late 20th century, the terms "domestic violence" had used in the criminal justice system concerning the female population (Carney & Buttell, 2006; Hassanian-Moghaddam et al., 2016; Jeyaseelan et al., 2004; Johnson, 2005). Therefore, women are not only the victims of this ugly wave of men's violence; however, men are also victims of intimate partners (Carney & Buttell, 2006; Reed et al., 2010).
Caring Knowledge as a Strategy to Mitigate Violence against Nurses: A Discussion Paper
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2023
Sara Brune, Laura Killam, Pilar Camargo-Plazas
Throughout this paper we explore 1) the context, causes, outcomes, and implications of violence against healthcare workers, 2) current violence prevention strategies, 3) the concept of caring knowledge and its potential for violence prevention in the healthcare setting, and 4) the barriers that currently inhibit standard utilization of caring knowledge for violence prevention. The purpose of this paper is not to resolve the issue of violence against nurses but rather to reflect on the use of caring knowledge as a means to manage violent and aggressive outbursts from patients, prevent further incidents of violence, and improve the quality of care (see Figure 1). We argue that while not all incidents of violence against nurses can be managed using the ethics of care, when used effectively it has the capacity to de-escalate many violent situations (Holmes, 2006; Wand & Coulson, 2006).
Medicalized Oppression: Labels of “Violence Risk” in the Electronic Medical Record
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2023
Zamina Mithani, J. Wesley Boyd
The World Health Organization defines violence as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation” (“Violence Prevention Alliance Approach” n.d.). However, other definitions of violence do not limit it to conscious intent or even physical harm (Pitts and Schaller 2022). “Violence risk” flags are generally placed in the EMR after a subjective encounter where a provider felt unsafe. The purpose of this flagging is to alert and protect future healthcare providers when they engage with the patient. Importantly, once a patient is flagged as potentially violent, the flag is very rarely if ever removed, no matter the severity or lack thereof of the initial incident that led to the flag in the first place. As such, all future encounters with medical personnel might be fraught with the same pre-encounter bias that the patient in our introduction experienced and it can be used unconsciously as a predictive heuristic for future encounters.