This article focuses on physical violence by persons who have mental illnesses that cause or contribute to their violence. It describes how patterns of violence are related to various types of mental disorders. Violence is more frequent in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, mood disorders, ...
Other studies have approached the question of how mental illness intersects with violence through examining rates of violent behavior among clinical populations. These studies tend to focus on severe/serious mental illness (SMI), that is, disorders which cause or are associated with serious functional ...
Objective To use a longitudinal data set representative of the US population to clarify whether or how severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression lead to violent behavior. Design Data on mental disorder and violence were collected as part of the National Ep...
“News media coverage on gun violence tended to implicate mental illness as the cause of gun violence and frequently proposed gun restrictions for people with mental illnesses as a solution,”Yu Lu, PhD,andJeff R. Temple, PhD,of the University of Texas Medical Branch,...
Jeffrey Swanson, Ph.D. — a leading researcher in the field who has authored over 240 publications on the intersection of violence and mental illness and helps develop policies to help people with mental illnesses while reducing gun-related injuries and deaths — has conducted much of the researc...
Dissociative disorders are mental illnesses that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, conscious awareness, identity, and/or perception. When one or more of these functions is disrupted, symptoms can result. These symptoms can interfere with a person's general functioning, including social and ...
Mental health disorders are defined as conditions that affect a person’s thoughts, behaviors or moods. Learn more about common mental illnesses here.
"We do need better mental health care in America. An estimated 3.5 million people with seriousmental illnessesare going without treatment every year," said Jeffrey W. Swanson, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine and lead author of the study...
Domestic violence is a common hidden problem for women attending clinical practice and is a major cause of mental ill health globally. Domestic violence is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as any behaviour within an intimate relationship that causes physical, psychological or sexual ...
However, the lack of experience directly dealing with people with mental disorders was one of the obstacles expressed by the cadres in carrying out their roles, and this was due to the absence of people with mental illnesses in the cadres’ area. On the other hand, several participants ...