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The role of Impulsivity in Antisocial and violent behavior and personality disorders among incarcerated women

The role of Impulsivity in Antisocial and violent behavior and personality disorders among incarcerated women

IRINA KOMAROVSKAYA ANN BOOKER LOPER JANET WARREN University of Virginia   This study investigated the relationships among impulsivity, antisocial and violent behavior, and personality disorders in 590 female inmates of a maximum-security female prison. Measures included the Barratt Impulsivity Scale, Prison Violence Inventory, Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorders Screening Questionnaire, numbers of institutional infractions recorded in inmate files, and violent versus nonviolent offending. Results showed that impulsivity was associated with personality psychopathology and aggressive and antisocial behavior. In…

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Ethical Considerations in Treatment of Personality Dysfunction: Using Evidence, Principles, and Clinical Judgment

Ethical Considerations in Treatment of Personality Dysfunction: Using Evidence, Principles, and Clinical Judgment

Jeffrey J. Magnavita Independent practice, Glastonbury, CT Kenneth N. Levy Pennsylvania State University Kenneth L. Critchfield University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute Jay  L. Lebow The Family Institute at Northwestern   Clinical work with clients suffering from personality disorders can be among the most challenging for psychologists. These clients may have a wide range of clinical presentations, and many practitioners may lack the specialized training needed to provide successful treatment to these clients. Clinicians are faced with several challenges in making…

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Comorbidity of Personality Disorders in Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of 30 Years of Research

Comorbidity of Personality Disorders in Anxiety Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of 30 Years of Research

     Oddgeir Friborg 1, 2 Monica Martinussen 3 Sabine Kaiser 1 Karl Tore Øvergård 1 Jan H. Rosenvinge 1   1 Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway. 2 Psychiatric Research Centre of Northern Norway, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø. 3 Faculty of Health Sciences, Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare, University of Tromsø, Norway.   Declaration of interest: None of the authors have any conflicting interests. Corresponding author…

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Borderline personality disorder and violence in the UK population: categorical and dimensional trait assessment

Borderline personality disorder and violence in the UK population: categorical and dimensional trait assessment

BMC Psychiatry. 2016; 16: 180. Published online 2016 Jun 3. doi:  10.1186/s12888-016-0885-7 PMCID: PMC4891918 Rafael A. González, Artemis Igoumenou, Constantinos Kallis, and Jeremy W. Coid Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Abstract Background Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterised by difficulties with impulse control and affective dysregulation. It is unclear whether BPD contributes to the perpetration of violence or whether this is explained by comorbidity….

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Personality Disorder Symptoms and Marital Functioning

Personality Disorder Symptoms and Marital Functioning

Susan C. South, Eric Turkheimer, and Thomas F. Oltmanns Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at J Consult Clin Psychol See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract Pathological personality is strongly linked with interpersonal impairment, yet, no study to date has examined the relationship between concurrent personality pathology and dysfunction in marriage—a relationship most people find central to their lives. In a cross-sectional study…

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Managing Suicide Risk in Borderline Personality Disorder | Psychiatric Times

Managing Suicide Risk in Borderline Personality Disorder | Psychiatric Times

  May 01, 2012 | By Robert J. Gregory, MD Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are often high users of health care and may present with multiple crises and minor incidents of self-harm or threats.1 As with the boy who cried wolf, inpatient consultants and health care providers may end up feeling manipulated and may not take suicide risk very seriously. CASE VIGNETTE Ms A, a 22-year-old, was brought to the emergency department (ED) by ambulance; she had overdosed…

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New Insights Into Narcissistic Personality Disorder | Psychiatric Times

New Insights Into Narcissistic Personality Disorder | Psychiatric Times

February 29, 2016 | By Elsa Ronningstam, PhD Despite its survival and final inclusion in DSM-5, narcissistic personality disorder remains a controversial diagnosis. With a lifetime prevalence of 6.2%, it is less frequently identified in psychiatric settings but more often seen in private practice and applied to higher-functioning patients.1,2 Conceptualizations and diagnostic definitions of narcissistic personality disorder have primarily focused on the more strikingly provocative, self-enhancing, entitled interpersonal behaviors and attitudes that tend to capture the attention of clinicians rather…

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Comorbidities in Borderline Personality Disorder | Psychiatric Times

Comorbidities in Borderline Personality Disorder | Psychiatric Times

January 09, 2013 By Robert S. Biskin, MDCM and Joel Paris, MD Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is frequently seen in clinical practice. Over the past 2 decades, research on BPD has increased substantially, with concomitant specialized psychotherapies that have been proved to be effective. A number of pharmacological agents have also been investigated, but results have been mixed.1 One of the enduring challenges in treating patients with BPD is that only a minority have straightforward clinical presentations with no comorbidity….

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Violence and personality disorders: clinical and forensic implications

Violence and personality disorders: clinical and forensic implications

Special article 1Medical specialist in Legal and Forensic Medicine and in Psychiatry, Psychologist and Doctor in Psychology, Forensic physician in the “Juzgado de Instruccion” (Instruction Courts) of Madrid 2Cibersam, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad del País Vasco   Actas Esp Psiquiatr 2010;38(5):249-261   Violence and personality disorders: clinical and forensic implications Violencia y trastornos de la personalidad: implicaciones clínicas forenses Several studies have provided strong evidence that personality disorders (PD) represent a significant clinical risk for violence. This review has aimed…

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Borderline personality disorder and violence in the UK population: categorical and dimensional trait assessment

Borderline personality disorder and violence in the UK population: categorical and dimensional trait assessment

González et al. BMC Psychiatry  (2016) 16:180 DOI 10.1186/s12888-016-0885-7 Rafael A. González1,2, Artemis Igoumenou3*, Constantinos Kallis3 and Jeremy W. Coid3 * Correspondence: a.igoumenou@qmul.ac.uk 3Violence Prevention Research Unit, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2016 The Author(s). Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided…

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