Browsing Personality disorders by Title
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A cluster analytic examination and external validation of psychopathic offender subtypes in a multisite sample of Canadian federal offenders
(2015)The present study is a cluster analytic examination and validation of psychopathic offender subtypes from 4 combined samples of Canadian federally incarcerated offenders, most of whom were serving sentences for violent ... -
A comparison of adults with antisocial personality traits with and without childhood conduct disorder
(2007)Background: Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) in DSM-IV is unique among personality disorder diagnoses in requiring the individual to satisfy a number of childhood criteria in addition to relevant traits exhibited in ... -
A comparison of treatment completers and non-completers of an in-patient treatment programme for male personality-disordered offenders
(2008)Background. In the treatment of offenders with personality disorders, one matter that requires attention is the rate of treatment non-completion. This is important as it has cost-efficiency and negative outcome implications. ... -
A comparison of women who continue and discontinue treatment for borderline personality disorder
(2009)Background: Treatment non-completion is a significant problem for personality disorder treatment services. Aims: We investigated differences between treatment continuers and treatment discontinuers of a tertiary specialist ... -
A cost and economic evaluation of the Leeds personality disorder managed clinical network-A service and commissioning development initiative
(2016)In the UK, patients with personality disorders presenting complex needs frequently experience an unhelpful pattern of acute treatment followed by community care-with associated high cost implications for services. With UK ... -
A cross-sectional snapshot of therapeutic community client members
(2005)This paper describes some of the characteristic of 242 client members of 19 therapeutic communities in England and Scotland. On the first day of data collection of a research project evaluating the effectiveness of therapeutic ... -
A descriptive evaluation of patients and prisoners assessed for dangerous and severe personality disorder
(2010)The Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) programme was introduced to assess, manage and treat severely personality disordered individuals who present a high risk of serious offending. We describe the clinical ... -
A living life, a living death: Bessie Head's writing as a survival strategy
(2011)This paper explores Bessie Head's writing as a survival strategy through which she transformed her lived experience into imaginative literature, giving meaning and purpose to a life under permanent threat from the dominant ... -
A postal survey of the assessment procedure for personality disorder in forensic settings
(2000)Aims and method: A survey of 50 in-patient forensic health care and prison services in England, Wales and Scotland was employed to evaluate: (a) how severe personality disorder is assessed; and (b) how assessments compare ... -
A preliminary investigation of services for people with personality disorder in the East Midlands region of England
(2012)Aim This paper presents a preliminary investigation of dedicated and specialist personality disorder services in three counties within the East Midlands in England (Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derbyshire). We examined ... -
A survey of how clinicians in forensic personality disorder services engage their service users in treatment
(2013)Non-completion is a significant problem in treatments for personality disorder (PD), and is associated with poorer outcomes. Clinicians routinely attend to engagement issues with people diagnosed with PD and so we accessed ... -
A therapeutic community for personality disorder in a high secure intellectual disability service: Inception and early experiences
(2012)Purpose: This paper seeks to explain the reasons for use of a therapeutic community for personality disorder in a high secure intellectual disability service. Design/methodology/approach: The paper describes the rationale ... -
A training and development strategy for clinically based staff working with people diagnosed as having psychopathic disorders
(1996)There is a growing consensus that cognitive/behavioural methods of treatment are the most effective techniques in reducing offender recidivism. Consequently, these may be the treatment of choice in working with offenders ... -
A treatment goal checklist for people with personality disorder
(2013)Background: Agreement between client and therapist on treatment goals has been consistently linked with improved treatment outcomes. Having clear and collaborative goals may be particularly important when working with ... -
A treatment guideline for people with antisocial personality disorder: Overcoming attitudinal barriers and evidential limitations
(2009)Mental health professionals have always been ambivalent in their response to treating and managing those with personality disorder, and this especially applies to those with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). The ... -
A validation of cognitive biomarkers for the early identification of cognitive enhancing agents in schizotypy: A three-center double-blind placebo-controlled study
(2012)A number of compounds aimed at improving cognition in schizophrenia have failed to demonstrate efficacy in Phase 2 clinical trials. Translational studies using biomarkers in surrogate populations, such as schizotypy, could ... -
Addiction to violence: A new model of psychopathy
(1992)Our understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 category of psychopathic disorder is not enhanced by describing it as a personality disorder. A new operational concept of psychopathic disorder would greatly assist in both ... -
Adult antisocial syndrome co-morbid with borderline personality disorder is associated with severe conduct disorder, substance dependence and violent antisociality
(2013)This study tested the hypothesis that syndromal adult antisocial behaviour (AABS) co-morbid with borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a syndrome that emerges from severe conduct disorder (CD) in childhood and adolescence ...
