Violence and Mental Disorder
A Critical Aid to the Assessment and Management of Risk
Author: Stephen Blumenthal Series: Forensic Focus
Violence and Mental Disorder takes the debate about violence into new territory by increasing our understanding of the wide range of factors associated with the commission of violence. This comprehensive and critical review of the literature is intended for a broad audience, including clinicians, researchers and policy makers working in this area.
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Violence and Mental Disorder takes the debate about violence into new territory by increasing our understanding of the wide range of factors associated with the commission of violence. This comprehensive and critical review of the literature is intended for a broad audience, including clinicians, researchers and policy makers working in this area.
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How can we identify which people with mental disorder present an undue risk of violence? This book reviews the huge amount of research and clinical literature available on violence risk assessment, explaining the wide range of factors associated with the commission of violence, and providing a much-needed resource for mental-health professionals. This book is published for the Zito Trust, an independent, registered charity which has been campaigning for reform to mental-health policy and law since the death of Jonathan Zito in December 1992.
Critic Reviews
“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.”
'If there is one issue in mental health law of truly international importance at the beginning of the 21st century, it is how to identify which people with mental disorder present an undue risk of violence. Dr Stephen Blumenthal and Professor Tony Lavender have written the most comprehensive, up-to-date, readable and balanced assessment of the huge research and clinical literatures on violence risk assessment of which I am aware. They have, in the process, made a significant contribution to our understanding of the relationship of mental disorder to violence, a contribution whose relevance extends far beyond the shores of the United Kingdom.' - From the Foreword by John Monahan, Doberty Professor of Law, University of Virginia
About the Author
Stephen Blumenthal is a clinical psychologist in forensic services at the Bracton Centre, Bexley Hospital, a medium secure unit in Kent. Tony Lavender is a clinical psychologist. He is Director of the Centre for Applied Social and Psychological Development at Salomons, a faculty of Canterbury Christ Church University College, Kent. The Zito Trust is an independent registered charity which has been campaigning for reform to mental health policy and law since the death of Jonathan Zito in December 1992.
Stephen Blumenthal is a clinical psychologist in forensic services at the Bracton Centre, Bexley Hospital, a medium secure unit in Kent.
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