Violence among the mentally ill : effective treatments and management strategies / edited by Sheilagh Hodgins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodgins, Sheilagh.

Series:

NATO ASI series. Behavioural and social sciences Series D,

NATO ASI series. Series D, Behavioural and social sciences.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentally ill offenders--Rehabilitation--Congresses.

Mentally ill offenders.

Dangerously mentally ill--Rehabilitation--Congresses.

Dangerously mentally ill.

Violence--Prevention--Congresses.

Violence.

Violence--Prevention.

Rehabilitation.

Mentally ill offenders--Rehabilitation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 416 pages : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Boston, MA : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

Summary:

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 and violent behaviour among persons with mental illness. Subsequent chapters document what is known about the effective prevention of offending and violent behaviour among the mentally ill. The provision of treatment in the community, in hospitals and correctional facilities is then critically reviewed and discussed, with specific descriptions of pharmacological and behavioural treatments. Compliance with treatment is discussed at length. Methodological issues in measuring the effectiveness of treatment of mentally ill offenders are described, with recommendations for future studies to evaluate treatments.

Contents:

I. Violence by the Mentally Ill: Prevalence, Triggers, and Determinants

Major Mental Disorders and Crime in the Community: A Focus on Patient Populations and Cohort Investigations / Patricia A. Brennan, Emily R. Grekin, Eric J. Vanman 3

Reducing Violence Risk: Diagnostically Based Clues from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study / John Monahan, Paul S. Appelbaum 19

Immediate Precursors of Violence Among Persons with Mental Illness: A Return to a Situational Perspective / Henry J. Steadman, Eric Silver 35

Commentary: Monahan and Appelbaum, "Reducing Violence Risk: Diagnostically Based Clues from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study"; Steadman and Silver, "Immediate Precursors of Violence Among Persons with Mental Illness: A Return to a Situational Perspective" / Gilles Cote 49

Etiological Factors Linked to Criminal Violence and Adult Mental Illness / Jasmine A. Tehrani, Sarnoff A. Mednick 59

Commentary: Tehrani and Mednick, "Etiological Factors Linked to Criminal Violence and Adult Mental Illness" / Matti Virkkunen 77

The Etiology and Development of Offending Among Persons with Major Mental Disorders: Conceptual and Methodological Issues and Some Preliminary Findings / Sheilagh Hodgins 89

II. Assessment, Effective Treatment, and Management

Capturing Change: An Approach to Managing Violence and Improving Mental Health / Christopher D. Webster, Kevin S. Douglas, Henrik Belfrage, Bruce G. Link 119

Treatment Implications of the Antecedents of Criminality and Violence in Schizophrenia and Major Affective Disorders / Joseph D. Bloom, Kim T. Mueser, Rudiger Muller-Isberner 145

Pharmacological Intervention for Preventing Violence Among the Mentally Ill with Secondary Alcohol- and Drug-Use Disorders / Jari Tiihonen, Marvin S. Swartz 171

Pharmacological Interventions for Preventing Violence Among the Mentally Ill with Co-occurring Personality Disorders / Jan Volavka, Leslie Citrome 193

III. Preventing Violence in Hospitals

Institutional Violence Among the Mentally Ill / V.L. Quinsey 213

High-Risk Factors for Violence: Emerging Evidence and Its Relevance to Effective Treatment and Prevention of Violence on Psychiatric Wards / Stal Bjorkly 237

Violence Against Others by Psychiatric Hospital Inpatients with Psychosis: Prevention Strategies and Challenges to Their Evaluation / Pamela J. Taylor, Hans Schanda 251

Effective Treatment Strategies for Preventing Violence on Psychiatric Wards / Goran Fransson 277

IV. Preventing Violence in Correctional Facilities

Major Mental Disorder and Violence in Correctional Settings: Size, Specificity, and Implications for Practice / David J. Cooke 291

Effective Treatment for Disturbed Violent Prisoners? / Hans Toch 313

V. Preventing Violence in the Community

The Efficacy and Effectiveness of Community Treatment Programmes in Preventing Crime and Violence Among Those with Severe Mental Illness in the Community / Kirk Heilbrun, Lori Peters 341

Commentary: Heilbrun and Peters, "The Efficacy and Effectiveness of Community Treatment Programmes in Preventing Crime and Violence Among Those with Severe Mental Illness in the Community" / James McGuire 359

Social Services Necessary for Community Treatment Programmes Designed to Prevent Crime and Violence Among Persons with Major Mental Disorders / Georg Hoyer 367

Social and Community Services and the Risk for Violence Among People with Serious Psychiatric Disorders: In Search of Mechanisms / Sue E. Estroff 383

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 389

Treatment of Mentally Ill Offenders in the Community: A Clinical Perspective / Peter Gottlieb, Asmus Finzen 409.

ISBN:

0792364376

OCLC:

44172971