ABSTRACT

How to manage and respond to escalating violence towards staff working in the human services is a pressing professional problem. This workbook:

  • empowers individuals by providing a range of useful useful skills that can help in managing aggression
  • enables staff placed in difficult or dangerous situations by their employers to address the issue effectively
  • clarifies the responsibilities of the manager in ensuring staff are safeguarded
  • builds confidence in staff and their managers by offering workable solutions to reducing levels of aggression in the workplace.

Highlighting examples of good and bad practice, Managing Aggression is a book for anyone who has ever faced, or is likely to face, aggression at work.

chapter |2 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|2 pages

WORKPLACE CULTURE

chapter |12 pages

THE CULTURE OF INEVITABILITY

chapter |2 pages

ACTIVITY 1.9

chapter |2 pages

ACTIVITY 1.10

chapter |1 pages

REFERENCES

chapter 2|3 pages

CAUSES OF AGGRESSION

chapter |2 pages

ACTIVITY 2.1

chapter |1 pages

ACTIVITY 2.3

chapter |2 pages

ACTIVITY 2.8

chapter 3|1 pages

ASSESSING RISK

chapter |2 pages

WHAT THE LAW REQUIRES

chapter 6|1 pages

Threats

chapter 8|5 pages

Frustration

chapter |3 pages

RISK ASSESSMENT – THE FORMAT

chapter 3|8 pages

An alcohol/drugs policy

chapter 5|4 pages

MANAGING AGGRESSION

chapter |2 pages

ACTIVITY 5.1

chapter 5|3 pages

Head movements

chapter 13|4 pages

Repetitive movements

part |1 pages

Part B: Assertiveness

chapter |5 pages

ACTIVITY 5.5

chapter |2 pages

Part C: Defusion techniques

chapter 3|5 pages

Sitting down

chapter 8|3 pages

Identifying past strengths

chapter 12|4 pages

Non-response

chapter |1 pages

Part D: Physical interventions

chapter |5 pages

ACTIVITY 5.14

chapter 6|1 pages

BULLYING AT WORK

chapter |5 pages

OVERVIEW

chapter |1 pages

WHO BULLIES?

ACTIVITY 6.4

chapter 2|3 pages

The person who does it under pressure

chapter |5 pages

ACTIVITY 6.5

chapter |1 pages

INFORMATION

chapter 7|10 pages

ETHNIC AND GENDER ISSUES

chapter |3 pages

ACTIVITY 7.9

chapter |2 pages

KEY POINTS

chapter 8|2 pages

THE CONSEQUENCES OF AGGRESSION

chapter |4 pages

ACTIVITY 8.1

chapter |5 pages

Emotional debriefing model

chapter |3 pages

ACTIVITY 8.5

chapter |3 pages

ACTIVITY 8.8

chapter |1 pages

KEY POINTS

chapter 9|3 pages

ALTERNATIVES TO AGGRESSION

chapter |2 pages

ACTIVITY 9.2

ACTIVITY 9.3

chapter |5 pages

ACTIVITY 9.4

chapter |1 pages

REFERENCES

chapter |2 pages

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books

chapter |2 pages

Articles