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R B Flannery

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The employee victim of violence: recognizing the impact of untreated psychological trauma.

The impact of psychological trauma in the workplace often goes unaddressed. The untreated aftermath of these critical incidents may manifest itself in various states of anxiety, depression, substance use disorders, and even subsequent violence by the victims. This paper reviews common presentations of untreated traumatic events and provides suggestions for outreach to untreated employee victims as well as basic prevention strategies to reduce the risk of additional episodes of violence and enhance safety in health care facilities, including long-term care (LTC) and special-care units (SCU) for dementia patients.

Crime Victims↗
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Placement challenges: implications for long-term care of dementia sufferers.

Caregivers and long-term care staff seek appropriate placements for dementia sufferers, but there is little empirical research to guide such decision-making. However, recent national trends in mental health care have emphasized the placement of persons with serious mental illness in privatized, community-based residences. This body of empirical research has indicated that persons with psychosis, substance use disorder, assaultive behavior, and medication noncompliance have shorter tenure in these residential settings. These findings are also important for other, more traditional health care settings, as the patients discharged from community residences may require assistance on occasion from such other settings. This study continues the inquiry into the characteristics of patients with serious mental illness, who have shorter tenure in community residences. Dangerous behaviors, treatment-resistant psychosis, medical illnesses, and social-interpersonal skill deficiencies were common causes for discharge in this study. Since there remains a paucity of published empirical studies on the issue for patients with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, we present the implications of, and guidelines for, addressing these issues in dementia sufferers in long-term care settings.

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Towards stress-resistant persons: a stress management approach to the treatment of anxiety.

With the reported increase in life stress in recent years, it is important to understand the relationship between such stress and health. It would be of further value if efficacious and time-limited approaches for coping with life stress were to be developed. This paper presents a brief history of the literature on stress, health, and illness. It focuses particular attention on persons who cope adequately with life stress--stress-resistant persons. It also outlines a four-step program to teach these effective copying skills to more vulnerable persons, and presents preliminary findings and the theoretical and clinical issues involved in its implementation.

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