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Workplace violence and mental illness

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Workplace violence and mental illness

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Workplace violence and mental illness/ Kristine M. Empie.
作者:	Empie, Kristine M.
出版者:	New York :LFB Scholarly, : 2003.,
面頁冊數:	viii, 156 p. ;23 cm.
內容註:	Chap. 1. Routine activities theory -- Chap. 2. Violence in the workplace -- Chap. 3. Research methodology -- Chap. 4. The practitioner's perspective -- Chap. 5. Violence in mental health -- Chap. 6. Practical implications.
標題:	Dangerously mentally ill. -
電子資源:	http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=85977An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	1593320310 (electronic bk.)

Workplace violence and mental illness
Empie, Kristine M.

Workplace violence and mental illness[electronic resource] /Kristine M. Empie. - New York :LFB Scholarly,2003. - viii, 156 p. ;23 cm. - Criminal justice recent scholarship. - Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-151) and index.

Chap. 1. Routine activities theory -- Chap. 2. Violence in the workplace -- Chap. 3. Research methodology -- Chap. 4. The practitioner's perspective -- Chap. 5. Violence in mental health -- Chap. 6. Practical implications.

In focusing on a particular type of workplace violence, i.e., violence committed by mentally ill clients against those who work in the field of mental health, this study examined the routine activities of employees who worked in the mental-health field and the subsequent role that their routines may have played in their victimization experiences. The study population consisted of mental health employees who worked in Western Pennsylvania. The population, as defined by the Department of Public Welfare-Office of Mental Health under Title 55 of the Pennsylvania Code, was composed of mental health workers who were employed in licensed mental health facilities, including outpatient, inpatient, partial hospitalization, crisis, family-based, long-term structured residence, and community residential rehabilitation. Based on the sampling frame, facilities were limited to those that were licensed, which excluded employees who worked in private practice. The final sample size was 449, with 162 working in nonresidential facilities, 157 in residential facilities, and 130 in crisis facilities. In order to test the hypotheses, a questionnaire was designed to obtain information on employees' routine activities and patterns of criminal victimization. The questionnaire was administered to determine the relationship between the three central elements of routine activities theory -- exposure to potential offenders, guardianship, and target suitability -- and victimization at work. Verbal aggression, verbal threats, and physical attacks were examined over the past 12 months, with attention to the frequency as well as the nature of the aggression. Findings show that those employees who viewed more of their weekly client contacts as dangerous were more likely to experience victimization. Type of mental disorder, number of weekly client contacts, and setting provided weak or no support for the alternative hypotheses, in that the variables did not have a significant impact on victimization. Those who worked in crisis facilities were more likely to experience victimization than those who worked in residential and/or nonresidential facilities. Working evening or night shifts was associated with an increased risk of victimization. Males were more likely to be victimized than females, except in types of sexual assault. Some of these findings provide strong support for routine activities theory, as well as rich data on violence in the field of mental health. Several policy or practical implications are drawn from the study.

Electronic reproduction.
Boulder, Colo. :
NetLibrary,
2003.

Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN: 1593320310 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

617362
Dangerously mentally ill.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RC439.4 / .E48 2003eb

Dewey Class. No.: 616.85/82

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WM 29.5 / E55w 2003

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