Intractability is relative: Behaviour therapy in the elimination of violence in psychotic forensic patients

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 89-101

  Becker, Mark ^a   Love, Colleen C ^a   Hunter, Melvin E ^a  

^a Atascadero State Hospital   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CASE REPORT; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; MALE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SKILL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0030984381     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.1997.tb00335.x     Document Type: Article

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