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Teaching Aggression Management Skills

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Aggression from children and young people is a frequent occurrence in acute care hospitals and is increasing globally in developed countries such as the USA, the UK, and Australia. Aggressive behavior, often referred to as behavioral emergencies, poses a safety risk not only for the patients themselves but also parents or carers, other patients, and healthcare workers. Hospital emergency responses often focus on the use of restraint and sedation which can potentially result in long-term emotional trauma. Acute care hospital staff, while regularly trained in emergency management of physical deterioration, often do not receive specific targeted training in this domain and report a lack of confidence in managing behavioral emergencies. Frontline clinical staff need access to regular validated evidence-based training that builds their confidence and skills in identifying both high-risk behaviors and preventing and ameliorating aggression. This chapter will discuss best practice training approaches that can be utilized in the acute healthcare setting.

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Abbreviations

ASD:

Autism spectrum disorder

ID:

Intellectual disability

SBE:

Simulation-based education

SBME:

Simulation-based medical education

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  1. Department of Paediatrics & Monash Children’s Simulation, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Marijke Mitchell & Ram Nataraja

  2. Departments of Nursing and Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Fiona Newall

  3. The Royal Children’s Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Marijke Mitchell

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  1. Institute for Clinical and Applied Health Research, University of Hull, Hull, UK

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  2. King's College London, London, UK

    Victor R. Preedy

  3. University of Westminster, London, UK

    Vinood B. Patel

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Mitchell, M., Newall, F., Nataraja, R. (2023). Teaching Aggression Management Skills. In: Martin, C., Preedy, V.R., Patel, V.B. (eds) Handbook of Anger, Aggression, and Violence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98711-4_114-1

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