Psychiatric Emergencies

Assessing Violence Risk: A Meteorological Analogy

April 09, 2013 | Forensic Psychiatry, Risk Assessment, Cultural Psychiatry, Psychiatric Emergencies, Trauma And Violence

By Robert I. Simon, MD

Both clinicians and weather forecasters employ the same general process of information gathering, analysis, and reaching a conclusion.

Perceived Relationship Power Affects Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Illness

February 05, 2013 | Psychiatric Emergencies, Trauma And Violence

Perceived relationship power helps to explain the association between intimate partner violence and mental health issues.

"Re-sensitized" to Violence in the Wake of Newtown

January 22, 2013 | Disaster Psychiatry, Psychiatric Emergencies, Trauma And Violence

By Phebe Tucker, MD

Newtown’s loss has finally forced us to look more deeply at violence and the treatment of mental health within our society.

Violence in the Media: What Effects on Behavior?

October 05, 2012 | Antisocial Personality Disorder, Psychotic Affective Disorders, Psychiatric Emergencies, Trauma And Violence, Addiction

By Arline Kaplan

"You turn on the television, and violence is there. You go to a movie, and violence is there."

Psychopharmacology of Aggression and Violence in Mental Illness

April 02, 2012 | Trauma And Violence, Bipolar Disorder, Schizoaffective, Schizophrenia, Comorbidity In Psychiatry, Psychotic Affective Disorders, Psychiatric Emergencies, Addiction, Alcohol Abuse

By Jan Volavka, MD, PhD and Leslie L. Citrome, MD, MPH

Several studies have been undertaken to test the efficacy of drugs in the management of aggression and hostility in patients with schizophrenia and other mood disorders.

Best Practice Guidelines For Agitated Patients

March 30, 2012 | Psychiatric Emergencies, Tipsheets, Trauma And Violence

By Scott Zeller, MD

Tips on managing agitated patients from Project BETA.

New Guidelines Shake Up Treatment of Agitation

March 27, 2012 | Psychiatric Emergencies, ADHD, Addiction

By Scott Zeller, MD

Agitated patients who display “excessive verbal and/or motor behavior”—can be loud, disruptive, hostile, sarcastic, threatening, hyperactive, and even combative. This article discusses new best practices and guidelines for agitation.