University of Newcastle: MEDI6295 Essay on Aggressive Behaviour

This essay explores aggressive behavior, a prevalent issue affecting individuals for many years. It delves into various contributing factors, including mental illness, media violence (such as violent video games and television programs), and their impact on individuals, particularly children. The essay highlights the importance of interventions and treatments, focusing on de-escalation techniques as a means to address aggressive behaviors. It references studies that support the effectiveness of these techniques, including building rapport and emotional collaboration. Furthermore, the essay includes citations from the American Psychiatric Association and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, along with research by Price and Baker, and Nau et al., to support its claims.

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Aggressive behaviour in families which turns in to physical violence is not the new problem for
the people it has been affecting individual for many years. These type of behaviours are occurs
due to different factors. It might also be occurs as the results of mental illness which may impact
the family members negatively. Although there are different researchers found that this can also
occurs due to media violence such as playing violent video games and television and video
violence. Different misleading television programs can impacts people specifically the children.
The violent games like call of duty are the example of violent games that might cause aggressive
behaviour [1].
There are different interventions or treatments can be helpful to address aggressive behaviours.
Angry behaviours among the children and adults may leads to physical aggression like hitting,
biting, and spitting, yelling, and lashing out. The behaviours can be altered by using the de-
escalation techniques. This includes offering the kid or adult a chance to move away from the
situation or condition in which the aggression is causing. This also includes building a
therapeutic alliance and emotional collaboration with the person [2]. According to Price and
Baker the process of de-escalation includes building rapport to achieve the patient’s trust and
reducing restrictions. They also fund that this interventions is effective and useful for patient
with aggressive behaviours [3]. A pretest-posttest intervention study conducted by Nau et al
found that comprising nursing training program on de-escalation is positively reduce the
aggressive behaviour [4].

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1. American Psychiatric Association. Violence in the Media; psychologists study TV and
video game violence for potential harmful effects, 2013 [internet]. [Cited 2019 March
24]. Available from: http://www.apa.org/research/action/protect.aspx.
2. National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Violence and aggression: Short term
management in mental health and community settings, 2015 [internet]. [Cited; 2019
March 24]. Available from: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng10/chapter/1-
Recommendations#preventing-violence-and-aggression-2
3. Price O, Baker J. Key components of de‐escalation techniques: A thematic synthesis.
International journal of mental health nursing. 2012 Aug; 21(4):310-9.
4. Nau J, Halfens R, Needham I, Dassen T. Student nurses’ de-escalation of patient
aggression: A pretest–posttest intervention study. International journal of nursing studies.
2010 Jun 1;47(6):699-708.