Hetero-aggressive outbursts in patients’ behaviour in emergency psychiatry

Hetero-aggressive outbursts in patients' behaviour in emergency psychiatry.

INTRODUCTION Hetero-aggressive behaviour in patients with mental disorders is frequent and requires special skills of doctors and other medical staff in order to urgently protect the patient and indicate hospitalization. OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper was to examine the frequency of the most common diagnostic categories in psychiatric patients with hetero-aggressive behaviour. The seco...

The experience of aggressive outbursts in Intermittent Explosive Disorder.

Conceptualizations of Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED) have suffered from a scarcity of research investigating the subjective experience and phenomenology of the aggressive outbursts among those with IED relative to those who partake in more normative forms of aggression. Furthermore, though some studies have shown that individuals with IED are more impaired and have a poorer quality of li...

Cultural Issues in Emergency Psychiatry: Focus on Muslim Patients

The emergency room (ER) psychiatrist confronts an increasingly diverse patient population that presents complex challenges to diagnosis and treatment in this acute setting. Such challenges include difficulties involving language barriers, interpretations of behaviors, prayer and fasting rituals, gender roles, attitudes about mental health, family issues, and other cultural issues. The Muslim pa...

Aggressive Behaviour

to more advanced techniques are provided at appropriate places throughout the text; and a comprehensive set of examples is provided at the end of each chapter. An intuitive rather than theoretical approach is stressed by the authors and thus some methods are presented almost entirely in "cook-book" style. With the exception of the material on analysis of frequencies presented in chapter 16, the...

Emergency psychiatry: contemporary practices in managing acutely violent patients in 20 psychiatric emergency rooms.