Additionally, mental illness and substance abuse are main factors. 15-20% of juveniles convicted of crimes have serious mental illnesses, when the range of mental illnesses widens, the percentages increase to 30-90%. Also, many people believe, a child's environment and family are greatly related...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati
Yeah. It is not the case that a normal person develops a normal parasocial relationships and then it goes and becomes more and more intense and explodes into something like that. That’s not happening. It’s the other way around. If there are people with mental illness and they will have...
Teenagers can experience the same traumatic events that an adult can, and such events can affect teenagers in many ways. Violent physical or sexual assault, including rape orsexual abuse, is one common cause of PTSD among this age group. Teens who have witnessed an assault or its aftermath or...
Research shows that the most feared clinical outcome for mental health professionals is the death of a patient by suicide. According to the National Violent Death Reporting System, roughly 35% of all suicidal people die while in the active care of a treatment professional. As clinicians across ...
The week was almost done, and I was out walking; Bill would be home soon. Of course, walking is where I could think. I started asking myself, “Why is this depressive event not going away? Why is it so violent and extreme? What makes this particular time so despairing that I’ve ...
The law – repealed under Labour in 2022 – imposed a mandatory prison sentence of seven years for individuals who committed a third “strike” or violent offence. The legislation was intended to deter people from serious or repeat offending by threatening increasingly strict sentences. The Governme...
Today, those with epilepsy or mental illnesses have numerous treatment options, including inpatient facilities. Historically, epilepticcolonieswere painted as pleasant facilities dedicated to selfless patient care. Facilities were often divided into “curable,”“incurable,” and “violent” wards, and pat...
the yearly gun homicides in the U.S. A 2015studylooking at 235 mass killings determined that 22% of the perpetrators were considered mentally ill. And research shows that people with a mental illness are more likely to harm themselves than others, and are often the victims of violent ...
(PCL-R)" created by Dr. Robert Hare - otherwise known as the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, the diagnostic tool most commonly used to determine psychopathy - only a very few items would suggest the person may be violent. Most of the terms suggest malevolence and include behaviors such as ...