Gender,sexual harassment,workplace violence,and risk assessment:: Convergence around psychiatric staff's perceptions of personal safety |
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| Institution: | 1. National Institute of Occupational Health, Norway;2. Department of Psychosocial Science, University of Bergen, Norway;3. Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway;1. North London Forensic Service, Chase Farm Hospital, The Ridgeway, Enfield, Middlesex, EN2 8JL, United Kngdom;2. North London Forensic Service, Chase Farm Hospital, The Ridgeway, Enfield, Middlesex, EN2 8JL, United Kingdom;3. Brockfield Regional Secure Unit, Basildon, Essex, SS11 7XX, United Kingdom;4. Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, London Metropolitan University, Ladbroke House, 62-66 Highbury Grove, London, N5 2AD, United Kingdom;5. Department of Psychology, London South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, SE1 OAA, United Kingdom;6. Compass Centre for Mental Health Research and Policy, Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health, 80 University Street, Belfast, BT7 1HE, United Kingdom;1. Department of Nursing, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom;2. William Rathbone VI Chair of Community Nursing Research, Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom;1. Unit of Psychiatry, Institute of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, & Center for Cognition and Brain Sciences, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China;2. Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macau SAR, China;3. The National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders & Beijing Key Laboratory of Mental Disorders, Beijing Anding Hospital & the Advanced Innovation Center for Human Brain Protection, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China;4. Department of Nursing, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China;5. University of Notre Dame Australia & Graylands Hospital, Perth, Australia;6. Division of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia;7. School of Nursing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China |
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| Abstract: | This paper reviews literature in sexual harassment, workplace violence, and risk assessment as it relates to staff in psychiatric and forensic work environments. These three areas of research overlap in their applicability to psychiatric staff in that each addresses the understanding and management of types of violence to which many staff, particularly women, are likely to be exposed while working. Employee well-being, encompassing mental and physical health, job satisfaction, and morale, has been shown to be closely tied to organizational productivity and cost. In addition, gender has been shown to be an important factor in perceptions and decision-making, and prior work has suggested that female staff often have qualitatively different experiences in traditional male workplaces such as inpatient and forensic settings. Despite these findings, research to date on psychiatric staff has typically focused only on number of assaults by patients. It has not addressed how staff's gender may impact their perceptions of personal safety and judgments of risk from patients, nor have any empirical studies been performed in naturalistic settings to investigate this issue. Given the high correlation between organizational productivity and employee well-being, it is mutually beneficial to both employers and staff to examine current understanding of how certain staff variables such as gender may influence their feelings of safety and judgments of risk from patients. |
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