Program evaluation of a specialized treatment home for adults with severe challenging behavior
Abstract Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who engage in severe challenging behavior may comprise 5%–10% of the clinical population. Unfortunately, challenging behavior literature tends to underrepresent adult participants and emphasize efficacy (Does the intervention work?) more often than effectiveness (Does the ...
Thurka Thillainathan +2 more
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The conceptualisation and measurement of DSM-5 Internet Gaming Disorder: the development of the IGD-20 Test [PDF]
Background: Over the last decade, there has been growing concern about ‘gaming addiction’ and its widely documented detrimental impacts on a minority of individuals that play excessively. The latest (fifth) edition of the American Psychiatric Association’
AG Glaros +35 more
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Abstract Background Providing appropriate sexual support and education for adults with mild intellectual disabilities (IDs) is a source of considerable debate, resulting in diverse, non‐funded and potentially adverse practices. This study aims to identify a consensus among experts regarding what conditions are conducive to successful sexual support and
W. de Wit +3 more
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Understanding service users’ and therapists’ experiences of pharmacological treatment for sexual preoccupation and/or hypersexuality in incarcerated sex offenders [PDF]
This research comprises two qualitative studies understanding the experiences of 1) convicted sex offenders voluntarily receiving pharmacological treatment to reduce sexual preoccupation and 2) therapists working with these offenders.
Adi Y. +23 more
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Abstract Mental pathology and violence have been studied by the scientific community, a topic that is sometimes perceived as controversial, partly due to the prevailing stigma around psychiatric disorders. In this project, all those factors concomitant with psychotic pathologies and ‘Cluster B’ antisocial disorders, which could interfere with the ...
Enrique González Marcos +4 more
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Post-modernism, Paraphilia, Sadism, Necrophilia, and Sexually Motivated Homicide: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Dennis Cooper’s “Frisk” (1991) [PDF]
Adam Briedik
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Trophy, souvenir, or simple theft? Taking items from the victim in sexual homicide
Abstract Although most people have heard the terms ‘souvenirs’, ‘trophies’, and ‘mementos’, discussed in books and movies on the true crimes of sexual murderers, limited research has delved into the phenomenon of theft in sexual homicide (SH). Using a sample of 762 SH cases coming from the Sexual Homicide International Database, the current study ...
Megan Walter +2 more
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Ideology and Values in Healthcare: A Commentary on Baker's (2025) Medical Lysenkoism
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2025.
Mathew Mercuri, Alexandra Calzavara
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Comparing child and adult sexual homicides in Australia and New Zealand: A retrospective study
Abstract The present study examined distinctions between child (n = 30) and adult (n = 212) sexual homicide offenders (SHOs) in Australia and New Zealand, contributing to the limited international research on the subject. Data, primarily sourced from judges' sentencing comments on AustLII and New Zealand Legal Information Institute, revealed ...
Sophia Ricono‐Kaufhold +5 more
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