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- Mental illness and violence: Debunking myths, addressing realities
Research is helping to tease apart why some people with serious mental illness are prone to violence while others are not, and how clinicians and others can help through improved treatment and informed myth-busting
- Mental Illness and Violence: Debunking Myths, Addressing Realities
To aid psychologists’ understanding of this challenging phenomenon, there is a growing body of research that is helping to tease apart why some people with serious mental illness are prone to aggression or violence while others are not, and how clinicians and others can help
- Mental Illness and Violence: Debunking Myths, Addressing Realities
A common misperception exists that a majority of individuals with serious mental illness are violent A large body of research evidence highlights the complexity of the factors which may make individuals with serious mental illness prone to aggression or violence
- April May 2021 Monitor on Psychology
In this issue: serious mental illness and violence, funding for gun violence research, psychology's need to dismantle racism, empathy, and mindset science
- Debunking the myths: Mental illness and mass shootings.
There is a pervasive assumption that mental illness equates to dangerousness and violence as it relates to mass shootings The researchers examine the assumption and present a comprehensive literature review of how issues of mental illness impact violence and dangerousness
- Schizophrenia - American Psychological Association (APA)
Mental illness and violence: Debunking myths, addressing realities Research is helping to tease apart why some people with serious mental illness are prone to violence while others are not
- Abuse and violence - American Psychological Association (APA)
List specific symptoms of serious mental illness that are associated with violent behavior while understanding that diagnosis alone cannot determine who may commit violence
- Dispelling the myth of violence and mental illness, with Joel Dvoskin, PhD
In this episode, clinical and forensic psychologist Joel Dvoskin, PhD, talks about the misconceptions surrounding mental illness and violent behavior and how basic prevention efforts could help stop future violent events
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