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Violence and Mental Disorder Author: Stephen Blumenthal

ISBN: 9781843100355 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 192 Published: 8 July 2001 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.0 Description: 'Blumenthal and Lavender have brought together a mass of hitherto disparate evidence, which provides a useful starting point for mental health professionals, and students of psychology and psychiatry, trying to understand the links between violence and mental disorder.' - Metapsychology 'Because of the level of public concern, assessing and managing risk have become major clinical preoccupations. This book, therefore, is dealing with a very topical issue. It contains an impressive review of the research evidence on predictors of violence and the slender relationship between violence and mental disorder. It also provides a wide-ranging discussion of problems in risk assessment and management...This book provides an excellent resume of the current state of research on violence and mental disorder. The fact that it is a highly topical book that deserves a wide readership illustrates how important issues about risk are becoming in psychiatry today. It is understandable that the public and politicians want to focus on risk assessment in the hope of finding simple solutions to their concerns about safety. This book shows how far research is from providing such a simple ...

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