Using de-escalation strategies to prevent aggressive behaviour

Effective ingredients of verbal de-escalation: validating an English modified version of the 'De-Escalating Aggressive Behaviour Scale'.

UNLABELLED WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Verbal de-escalation is an intervention aimed at calmly managing an agitated client to prevent violence. Effective de-escalation can help reduce the use of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric settings. Despite its importance in practice, there is little agreement on the necessary techniques of de-escalation and most of the research on the topic is ba...

Aggressive fantasies, thought control strategies, and their connection to aggressive behaviour

The present study examined the relations between aggressive fantasies, thought control strategies and aggressive behaviour in a sample of non-clinical female participants (N = 72). First, the nature and prevalence of aggressive fantasies and thought control strategies were examined. Then, the relation between these constructs and aggressive behaviour was studied by means of correlations and reg...

Strategies to prevent suicide.

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...

Strategies to prevent underage drinking.

Alcohol use by underage drinkers is a persistent public health problem in the United States, and alcohol is the most commonly used drug among adolescents. Accordingly, numerous approaches have been developed and studied that aim to prevent underage drinking. Some approaches are school based, involving curricula targeted at preventing alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana use. Other approaches are extr...