Aggression and violence directed toward physicians

Attitudes Towards the Use of Violence and Partner Directed Aggression

Sprunger, Joel G. M.S., Purdue University, December 2013. Attitudes Toward the Use of Violence and Partner Directed Aggression. Major Professor: Christopher Eckhardt. The present prospective study examined implicit and explicit attitudes toward the use of violence and their capacity to predict past and future partner-directed aggression in a nonclinical sample. Implicit violence attitudes were ...

Aggression and violence

Violence and aggression.

Primary health care physicians’ approach toward domestic violence in Tehran, Iran

  Background: Primary health care physicians (PHCPs) are the first in the clinic to detect and help victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Therefore, their attitude and practice toward domestic violence (DV) are important to manage this problem. The aim of current study was to compare the behavior and attitude of PHCPs about DV versus other health risk factors in Tehran, Iran.   Methods : ...

Neurobiology of aggression and violence.

Acts of violence account for an estimated 1.43 million deaths worldwide annually. While violence can occur in many contexts, individual acts of aggression account for the majority of instances. In some individuals, repetitive acts of aggression are grounded in an underlying neurobiological susceptibility that is just beginning to be understood. The failure of "top-down" control systems in the p...