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The Impact on Staff of Working with Personality Disordered Offenders: A Systematic Review

The Impact on Staff of Working with Personality Disordered Offenders: A Systematic Review

Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Mark C. Freestone , Kim Wilson, Rose Jones, Chris Mikton, Sophia Milsom, Ketan Sonigra, Celia Taylor, Colin Campbell Published: August 25, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0136378 Abstract Background Personality disordered offenders (PDOs) are generally considered difficult to manage and to have a negative impact on staff working with them. Aims This study aimed to provide an overview of studies examining the impact on staff of working with PDOs, identify impact areas associated with working with PDOs, identify gaps…

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Relationship between Personality Disorder Functioning Styles and the Emotional States in Bipolar I and II Disorders

Relationship between Personality Disorder Functioning Styles and the Emotional States in Bipolar I and II Disorders

Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Jiashu Yao , You Xu , Yanhua Qin, Jing Liu, Yuedi Shen, Wei Wang , Wei Chen Published: January 27, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117353 Abstract Background Bipolar disorder types I (BD I) and II (BD II) behave differently in clinical manifestations, normal personality traits, responses to pharmacotherapies, biochemical backgrounds and neuroimaging activations. How the varied emotional states of BD I and II are related to the comorbid personality disorders remains to be settled. Methods We therefore administered…

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Self-selection biases in psychological studies: Personality and affective disorders are prevalent among participants

Self-selection biases in psychological studies: Personality and affective disorders are prevalent among participants

Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Self-selection biases in psychological studies: Personality and affective disorders are prevalent among participants Izabela Kaźmierczak , Anna Zajenkowska , Radosław Rogoza, Peter K. Jonason, Dawid Ścigała Published: March 8, 2023 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281046 Abstract Respondents select the type of psychological studies that they want to participate in consistence with their needs and individual characteristics, which creates an unintentional self-selection bias. The question remains whether participants attracted by psychological studies may have more psychological dysfunctions related to personality…

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