Browsing by Subject "Dangerous behaviour"
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Assessment and management of dangerous and severe personality disorders
(2009)Purpose of review: To review recent literature on the assessment and management of individuals with severe personality disorders who present as a risk to others. Recent findings: The literature shows an expansion of services ... -
Childhood risk factors for offending before first psychiatric admission for people with schizophrenia: A case-control study of high security hospital admissions
(2010)Background: People with schizophrenia who offend do not constitute a homogenous population. Pre-illness characteristics may distinguish groups. Aims: To test for differences in prevalence of childhood risk factors for ... -
How is personality disorder linked to dangerousness? A putative role for early-onset alcohol abuse
(2006)This paper questions the assumption that personality disorder and dangerousness are causally linked, and suggests that insofar as a relationship between them exists, it is mediated by early-onset alcohol abuse. The latter, ... -
Milieu and Mutilation - A case for special treatment?
(1992)Special hospitals are principally concerned with the treatment of patients of dangerous, violent or criminal propensities referred from the courts and prisons. However, patients can be transferred from local NHS hospitals. ... -
Proposals for managing dangerous people with severe personality disorder: New legislation and new follies in a historical context
(2002)Current proposals in England and Wales to ' capture' an ill-defined group of anti-social and violent people within the widest possible definition of mental disorder, and thereby to detain them under proposed new mental ... -
Risk assessment in offenders with intellectual disability: A comparison across three levels of security
(2008)In mainstream offender samples, several risk assessments have been evaluated for predictive validity. This study extends this work to male offenders with intellectual disabilities. Participants from high-, medium-, and ... -
The Behavioural Status Index: Therapeutic assessment of risk, insight, communication and social skills
(1999)An overview is given of the Behavioural Status Index (BSI), a developing classification instrument offering practical approaches to assessment and therapy surrounding social 'risk'. The approach hypothesizes that social ... -
The decision process of the mental health review tribunal—2. Analysis of research findings
(1983)In response to applications, the tribunal should have the power to order delayed discharge by a given date. Improved access to the tribunal should help to safeguard some patients in the future from the dilemmas resulting ... -
The function of aggression in personality disordered patients
(2009)It has been suggested that psychological interventions for personality disorders should focus on improving adaptive expression of the functional needs expressed through problematic behaviors such as aggression. The measurement ... -
The voice of detainees in a high security setting on services for people with personality disorder
(2002)BACKGROUND: British government Home and Health Departments have been consulting widely about service development for people with ' dangerous severe personality disorder' (DSPD). There has, however, been no consultation ...
