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Violence and junior doctors working in psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Brian Kidd
Affiliation:
Southern General Hospital, Glasgow G51
Cameron R. Stark
Affiliation:
Department of Public Health, Gilmour House, Gilmour Street, Paisley PA1
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Aggression directed towards health care workers has been widely discussed (Health Services Advisory Committee, 1987), but information relating to British psychiatry has been anecdotal. The Collegiate Trainees' Committee (CTC) has recently expressed concern about the apparent dearth of training opportunities in the recognition and management of aggression, and the difficulty in obtaining post-incident counselling (1991).

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