The successes and failures of the DSPD experiment: The assessment and management of severe personality disorder

Medicine, Science and the Law

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-99

  Tyrer, Peter ^a   Duggan, Conor ^b   Cooper, Sylvia ^a   Crawford, Mike ^a   Seivewright, Helen ^a   Rutter, Deborah ^c   Maden, Tony ^a   Byford, Sarah ^d   Barrett, Barbara ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM; VIOLENCE;

COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77954904145     PISSN: 00258024     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/msl.2010.010001     Document Type: Review

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