Risk Assessment for Aggressive Behaviour in Personality Disorder

Using Time, Not Doing Time: Practitioner Perspectives on Personality Disorder and Risk

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 15-32

  Daffern, Michael ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actuarial versus structured methods; Aggression and violence posing problems for mental health services; Borderline (BPD) and antisocial (APD); BPD and APD common comorbid diagnoses in studies of male and female violent offenders; HCR 20, moderate to strong predictive accuracy; Historical, Clinical, Risk Management 20 (HCR 20) risk management strategy; Limited predictive validity of unaided risk appraisals; Predicting aggression using personality disorder diagnosis; Risk and dangerous and severe personality disorder; Risk assessment for aggressive behaviour in personality disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886499217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470710647.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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