Chapter 4: The Person with Aggressive Behaviours
Overview:
- Describes the social context of aggression
- Explains how to recognise aggressive behaviours
- Discusses aggression and the health care environment
- Explores the concept of the carer and aggression
- Outlines the causes of aggressive incidents
- Explains how to plan a caring intervention
- Describes behavioural change
- Describes how to use the solution-focused behavioural change model
Description:
This chapter instructs readers on how to understand internal and external sources of anger and hostility, recognise a range of overt and covert aggressive behaviours, use strategies to prevent or intervene in aggressive outbursts, and to appreciate how the solution-focused behavioural change model can help a client to change aggressive behaviour.
Topics:
- Learning objectives
- Chapter references
- Introduction
- The social context
- Recognising aggressive behaviours
- Aggression and the health care environment
- Learning activity 4.1 — The environment and aggression
- The carer and aggression
- Causes of aggressive incidents
- Learning activity 4.2 — Aggressive incident management
- Caring interventions
- Behavioural change program
- Learning activity 4.3 — Behaviour change agreement
- Using the solution-focused behavioural change model
- Conclusion
- Chapter summary
Speaker / Author:
Bernadette Keane
Bernadette is a highly experienced nurse educator who lectured for nine years in the psychiatric nursing programs conducted at Royal Park Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. In addition to psychiatry her clinical background and qualifications include medical, surgical, midwifery and infant welfare areas of care. In 1982, as a Kellogg Nursing Fellow, she studied at the University of California, San Francisco. Since then she has published journal articles and textbook chapters on health care and professional issues. In 1986 Bernadette launched her private practice, called Continuing Education Consultation, and from 1992 to 1998 she was president of the association called Nurses in Independent Practice. In 1992, together with Rhonda Goodwin and Jennifer Richmond, Bernadette published a nursing history book entitled Mum and Me and T.L.C.
Carolyn Dixon
Carolyn was, from 1995 to early 1999, the psychiatric clinical nurse consultant in the emergency department of St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. Her work there began as a project to study the effectiveness of this innovative role. Carolyn is a trained psychiatric and general nurse who has worked in hospital, education and community settings both in Australia and overseas. It was while she was working as a nurse teacher at Royal Park Hospital in Melbourne that she first worked with Bernadette Keane. Carolyn has presented a number of conference papers on aspects of psychiatric care. Her qualifications include a Bachelor of Arts (Social Science), a Graduate Diploma in Health Education and a Master of Nursing.
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