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More than one in three Victorian mental health workers have been physically assaulted in the past 12 months, with staff stabbed, strangled and punched on the job.
A joint study between the Health and Community Services Union and the University of Melbourne paints a grim picture of the state's mental health services, where staff experience high levels of psychological stress and violence
Melbourne's state secretary Lloyd Williams, states mental health workers were three times more likely to be physically attacked than police officers.
Growing demand for mental health services, cuts to services, inadequate staffing levels, poor training and a growing number of ice-affected patients had created unsafe conditions, he said.
Mr Williams said mentally ill patients with behavioral disturbances needed to be helped with one-on-one support and “de-escalation techniques”.
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