Stop & Think! Social Problem-Solving Therapy with Personality-Disordered Offenders

Social Problem Solving and Offending: Evidence, Evaluation and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 207-220

  Mcmurran, Mary ^a,b   Egan, Vincent ^c   Duggan, Conor ^d  

^a Llanarth Court Psychiatric Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavioural disturbance; Individual therapies; PDU treatment programme; Personality disorder; Psychoeducation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889323366     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713488.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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