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The Violent Patient

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Handbook of Prescriptive Treatments for Adults

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One of the most worrisome parts of any mental health clinician’s job is the fear that a client will be violent. Clinicians often bear special legal responsibility and authority to detect those people (among their clientele) who present a risk of imminent violence and to prevent it through treatment or incapacitation. There is also often public outrage when psychiatric patients or ex-patients commit seriously violent acts, and a large share of that outrage is often directed toward clinicians who treated the client. The outrage is based on an assumption that if a client hurts some innocent person, the clinician must have been negligent in failing to notice the danger, failing to provide treatment, or failing to have or keep the dangerous client locked up.

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Harris, G.T., Rice, M.E. (1994). The Violent Patient. In: Hersen, M., Ammerman, R.T. (eds) Handbook of Prescriptive Treatments for Adults. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1456-9_22

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