@article{ref1,
title="A model of aggression in psychiatric hospitals",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica. Supplementum",
year="2002",
author="Nijman, H. L. I.",
volume="",
number="412",
pages="142-143",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Research of the determinants of inpatient aggression indicates that certain environmental hospital variables play a role in triggering aggression in psychiatric hospitals. Yet, how patient, staff and ward variables interact in eliciting aggression is not well understood. METHOD: On the basis of earlier findings, a model was proposed in which psychopathology and distorted cognitions of the patient are combined with environmental and communicational stressors that are specific for psychiatric wards. RESULTS: The proposed model elucidates how certain patient, staff and ward characteristics may interact in causing aggression. The model also emphasizes that repeated inpatient aggression may be the result of a vicious circle, i.e. inpatient violence is often followed by an increase in environmental and/or communication stress on the patient, thereby heightening the risk of a repeated outburst of violence. CONCLUSION: Although tentative, the model may shed light on the mechanisms that lead to (repeated) violence.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0065-1591",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}