Mental Health Services - Aggression and Violence

Mental Illness ≠ Violence

• Mental Health Care Doesn’t Stop Murder, According to Decades-Long Study
• Post-Ferguson: The Psychology of Improving Policy and Community Relations
• Study-- Mental Illness Not Cause of Crime
• People with Mental Illness More Likely to be Victims of Violence than Perpetrators: Study
• Rates of violence of the mentally ill is small
• People with psychiatric disabilities are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violent crime
• Prevalence and risk of violence against adults with disabilities

Reducing Patient Violence

• OSHA ISSUES TOOLS TO HELP PREVENT WORKPLACE VIOLENCE IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has created a new webpage to provide employers and workers with strategies and tools for preventing workplace violence in healthcare settings. The webpage complements OSHA’s Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service Workers that were published earlier this year. According to a news release, the site provides examples from healthcare organizations that have incorporated successful workplace violence prevention programs, and “models of how a workplace violence prevention program can complement and enhance an organization’s strategies for compliance and a culture of safety.”
• AHA resource highlights hospital partnerships to prevent violence
• Strategies for Reducing Patient Violence -- American Psychological Association
• Behavioral Emergency Response Team – Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality
• Reducing Aggression Thru Trauma Informed Care – SAMHSA
• ANGER management for Substance Abuse and Mental Health Clients -- SAMHSA
• Prevention and Management of Aggression in Mental Health – An Interdisciplinary Discussion
• ED Workplace Violence Prevention – American College of Emergency Physicians
• Textbook of Violence Assessment and Management -- American Psychiatric Association

Youth & Violence

• CDC Grand Rounds on Preventing Youth Violence
• Preventing School Violence: A Sustainable Approach -- SAMHSA
• Resources for Children & Adolescents -- SAMHSA
• Medicaid Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment