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“I just can’t, I am frightened for my safety, I don’t know how to work with her”: Practitioners’ experiences of client violence and recommendations for future practice.

“…Worryingly, Beale, Fletcher, Leather, and Cox (1998) comment that health care professionals who have been attacked may not report further client violence because of adverse judgments from peers and managers, leading to passivity from the victim’s perspective and underreporting from an organizational perspective (see Macdonald & Sirotich, 2001). Consequently, low-level violence within their job, such as aggression and verbal threats becomes ‘tolerable.’ Continuing to work in an environment where there are threats of continuous violence will lead to low staff morale, professional burn-out, and, again, low job satisfaction (McAdams & Foster, 1999).…”

“…Consequently, low-level violence within their job, such as aggression and verbal threats becomes 'tolerable.' Continuing to work in an environment where there are threats of continuous violence will lead to low staff morale, professional burn-out, and, again, low job satisfaction (McAdams & Foster, 1999).…”