Violence in Psychiatry

Herausgeber: Warburton, Katherine D.; Stahl, Stephen M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on violence from assessment, through underlying neurobiology, to treatment and other recommendations for practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 924g
• ISBN-13: 9781107092198
• ISBN-10: 1107092191
• Artikelnr.: 44273153

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Part I. Statement of the Problem: 1.
Deinstitutionalization and the rise of violence; 2. The new mission of
forensic mental health systems: managing violence as a medical syndrome in
an environment that balances treatment and safety; Part II. Assessment: 3.
The evolution of violence risk assessment; 4. Assessment of aggression in
inpatient settings; 5. Clinical assessment of psychotic and mood disorder
symptoms for risk of future violence; 6. Inpatient aggression in community
hospitals; 7. Prevalence of physical violence in a forensic psychiatric
hospital system during 2011-2013: patient assaults, staff assaults, and
repeatedly violent patients; 8. The psychiatrist's duty to protect; Part
III. Neurobiology: 9. Deconstructing violence as a medical syndrome:
mapping psychotic, impulsive, and predatory subtypes to malfunctioning
brain circuits; 10. Aggression, DRD1 polymorphism, and lesion location in
penetrating traumatic brain injury; 11. Is impulsive violence an addiction?
The habit hypothesis; 12. The neurobiology of psychopathy: recent
developments and new directions in research and treatment; 13. The
neurobiology of violence; 14. Impulsivity and aggression in schizophrenia:
a neural circuitry perspective with implications for treatment; 15.
Serotonin and impulsive aggression; Part IV. Guidelines: 16. California
State-Hospital Violence Assessment and Treatment (Cal-VAT) guidelines; Part
V. Psychopharmacology: 17. Effectiveness of antipsychotic drugs against
hostility in patients with schizophrenia in the Clinical Antipsychotic
Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) study; 18. Clozapine: an
effective treatment for seriously violent and psychotic men with antisocial
personality disorder in a UK high-security hospital; 19. Augmentation of
clozapine with amisulpride: an effective therapeutic strategy for violent
treatment-resistant schizophrenia patients in a UK high-security hospital;
20. The psychopharmacology of violence: making sensible decisions; 21.
Treating the violent patient with psychosis or impulsivity utilizing
antipsychotic polypharmacy and high-dose monotherapy; 22. A rational
approach to employing high plasma levels of antipsychotics for violence
associated with schizophrenia: case vignettes; 23. Illustrative cases to
support Cal-VAT guidelines; Part VI. Treatment Interventions: 24. A new
standard of care for forensic mental health: prioritizing forensic
intervention; 25. Forensic focused treatment planning: a new standard for
forensic mental health systems; 26. Implementing an ecological approach to
violence reduction at a forensic psychiatric hospital: approaches and
lessons learned; 27. The appropriateness of treating psychopathic
disorders; 28. Psychosocial approaches to violence and aggression:
contextually anchored and trauma-informed interventions; 29. Co-morbid
mental illness and criminalness: implications for housing and treatment;
30. Crime, violence and behavioral health: collaborative community
strategies for risk mitigation; 31. New technologies in the management of
risk and violence in forensic settings; 32. Risk reduction treatment of
psychopathy and applications to mentally disordered offenders; Index.