Violence among the mentally ill : effective treatments and management strategies /
The book, written by some of the leading researchers in the world in the field of mental illness and crime, starts by reviewing investigations of crime and violence by the mentally ill in the community, in hospitals and in correctional facilities. It goes on to review the development of offending an...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
2000.
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| Series: | NATO science series. Behavioural and social sciences ;
v. 90. |
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Table of Contents:
- Major mental disorders and crime in the community : a focus on patient populations and cohort investigations / Patricia A. Brennan, Emily R. Grekin and Eric J. Vanman
- Reducing violence risk : diagnostically based clues from the MacArthur violence risk assessment study / John Monahan and Paul S. Appelbaum
- Immediate precursors of violence among persons with mental illness : a return to a situational perspective / Henry J. Steadman and Eric Silver ; Commentary [to two previous articles] / Gilles Côté
- Etiological factors linked to criminal violence and adult mental illness / Jasmine A. Tehrani and Sarnoff A. Mednick ; Commentary / Matti Virkkunen
- The etiology and development of offending among persons with major mental disorders : conceptual and methodological issues and some preliminary findings / Sheilagh Hodgins
- Capturing change : an approach to managing violence and improving mental health / Christopher D. Webster, Kevin S. Douglas, Henrik Belfrage, and Bruce G. Link
- Treatment implications of the antecedents of criminality and violence in schizophrenia and major affective disorders / Joseph D. Bloom, Kim T. Mueser, and Rüdiger Müller-Isberner
- Pharmacological intervention for preventing violence among the mentally ill with secondary alcohol-and drug-use disorders / Jari Tiihonen and Marvin S. Swartz
- Pharmacological interventions for preventing violence among the mentally ill with co-occurring personality disorders / Jan Volavka and Leslie Citrome
- Institutional violence among the mentally ill / V.L. Quinsey
- High-risk factors for violence : emerging evidence and its relevance to effective treatment and prevention of violence on psychiatric wards / Stål Bjørkly
- Violence against others by psychiatric hospital inpatients with psychosis : prevention strategies and challenges to their evaluation / Pamela J. Taylor, Hans Schanda
- Effective treatment strategies for preventing violence on psychiatric wards / Göran Fransson
- Major mental disorder and violence in correctional settings : size, specificity, and implications for practice / David J. Cooke
- Effective treatment for disturbed violent prisoners? / Hans Toch
- The efficacy and effectiveness of community treatment programmes in preventing crime and violence among those with severe mental illness in the community / Kirk Heilbrun and Lori Peters ; Commentary / James McGuire
- Social services necessary for community treatment programmes designed to prevent crime and violence among persons with major mental disorders / Georg Høyer
- Social and Community services and the risk for violence among people with serious psychiatric disorders : in search of mechanisms / Sue E. Estroff
- Community treatment programmes in Europe and the United Kingdom that have proven effective in preventing violence by the mentally ill in the community : administrative, organizational, legal, and clinical aspects / Robert Ferris
- Treatment of mentally ill offenders in the community : a clinical perspective / Peter Gottlieb and Asmus Finzen.