Assessing the Function of Aggression in Psychiatric Patients

Michael Daffern

BAT 8.1

CE Questions:

1. Does staff understanding of the patient’s aggression impact their willingness to help that patient?

a. YES ______

b. NO ______

2. Traditionally, aggression has been considered:
a)
b)

3. What are the characteristics most strongly associated with Instrumental Aggression?

4. What are the characteristics of Anger Mediated Aggression?

5. When a patient’s aggressive behavior is labeled as instrumental, what reactions may occur in staff?

6. Research using ACF found that 502 behaviors occurring within a secure psychiatric hospital, there was little evidence supporting the proposition that aggression was used to obtain….?

7. In the same study only 16 of the 502 aggressive behaviors were described as having….?

8. In ACF research, the assessment of function is likely to be less reliable than the recording of:

_______________

9. What are the 5 functions of aggressive behaviors according to FRAB?

10. What is the indirect benefit associated with the focus on function?