INFLUENCE OF SUPERVISION AND PREVENTIVE MEASURES ON SOCIAL WORK WITH AGGRESSIVE CLIENTS: A RETROSPECTIVE VIEWOF THE INCIDENCE OF CLIENT VIOLENCE.

The paper deals with the incidence of client violence in the Slovak Republic. The author presents a definition of client violence. It offers an overview of research on the issue of client violence in the helping professions with an emphasis on research undertaken in the field of social work in different countries. The author presents a retrospective view of client violence research - comparison of results obtained in 2007 and 2013. The findings confirm the increased incidence of all forms of client violence. It also offers a comparison of client violence with researches from different countries. At the end of this paper the author is checking the relationship between client violence and supervision and preventive measures for victims of workplace violence, which she verified by the correlation analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]