Racism as a response to change. The introduction of residents onto a psychiatry ward
Blank, R.J.; Silk, K.R.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 167(7): 416-421
1979
ISSN/ISBN: 0022-3018 PMID: 448345 Document Number: 150155
An outbreak of violence among inpatients coincident with the beginning of a residency training program is described. The phenomenon is viewed as an example of covert staff disagreement resulting in the scapegoating of black patients. Suggestions are made as to how to avoid the occurrence of similar phenomena through a process of re-education of ward staff.