How Useful Are Indices of Personality Pathology When Assessing Domestic Violence Perpetrators?

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 164-173

  Gibbons, Peter ^a   Collins, Marjorie ^b   Reid, Corinne ^b  

^a Department of Relationship Counselling ^*  (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; MCMI III; Personality pathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILLON CLINICAL MULTIAXIAL INVENTORY; OFFENDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952596209     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: 1939134X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021289     Document Type: Article

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