Am J Psychiatry 1979; 136:333-335
Copyright © 1979 by American Psychiatric Association
Educating staff to manage threatening paranoid patients
GA Di Bella
The threatening paranoid patient is one of the most frightening and
difficult patients to treat. The author points out the need for all levels
of hospital staff to become more adept at recognizing their own feelings,
which often keep them from appropriately managing these patients. He
summarizes several crucial points in teaching staff to cope successfully,
dividing the process into diagnosis, management of one's emotions, and
practice of appropriate therapeutic techniques.
