Workplace Violence towards Social Workers: The Australian Experience

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Journal Article Workplace Violence towards Social Workers: The Australian Experience Get access Stella Koritsas, Stella Koritsas Stella Koritsas is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Developmental Disability Health Victoria, and her research interests include violence and behaviour. Jan Coles is a Senior Research Fellow with Child Abuse Research Australia and an academic general practitioner. Malcolm Boyle is a senior lecturer teaching primarily evidence-based paramedic practice to undergraduate students. Primary research interests include pre-hospital trauma triage, pre-hospital trauma management, and data linking and analysis of pre-hospital datasets. Correspondence to Stella Koritsas, Building 1, 270 Ferntree Gully Road, Notting Hill, VIC, 3168, Australia. E-mail: [e-mail] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jan Coles, Jan Coles Stella Koritsas is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Developmental Disability Health Victoria, and her research interests include violence and behaviour. Jan Coles is a Senior Research Fellow with Child Abuse Research Australia and an academic general practitioner. Malcolm Boyle is a senior lecturer teaching primarily evidence-based paramedic practice to undergraduate students. Primary research interests include pre-hospital trauma triage, pre-hospital trauma management, and data linking and analysis of pre-hospital datasets. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Malcolm Boyle Malcolm Boyle Stella Koritsas is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Developmental Disability Health Victoria, and her research interests include violence and behaviour. Jan Coles is a Senior Research Fellow with Child Abuse Research Australia and an academic general practitioner. Malcolm Boyle is a senior lecturer teaching primarily evidence-based paramedic practice to undergraduate students. Primary research interests include pre-hospital trauma triage, pre-hospital trauma management, and data linking and analysis of pre-hospital datasets. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 40, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 257–271, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcn134 Published: 26 September 2008 Article history Accepted: 01 September 2008 Published: 26 September 2008