I am planning to conduct a study with staff in a psychiatric hospital and would like to know how to obtain or purchase the "Management of Aggression and Violence Attitude Scale (MAVAS)"
You might wish to check out the Overt Aggresion Scale (OAS) of Stuart Yudofsky and Jonathan Silver as well as the Modified Overt Aggression Scale (MOAS) as they have been used with the MAVAS.
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More re: MOAS by Kay, Wolkenfeld, and Murrill, which was developed at Bronx Psychiatric Center (a large urban state hospital affiliated with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine) to guide and measure impact of an Early Behavioral Intervention Program
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Stanley R Kay (1944-1988) was a brilliant psychologist who, in addition to coauthoring the PANSS, developed the Cognitive Diagnostic Battery specifically designed to assess aspects of cognition in persons with co-occurring SMI and developmental disability
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Thank you Dr. Lewis Opler for your feedback and article recommendations that addressed aggression in psychiatric patients and the tool used in the studies. They were very helpful.