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Program evaluation of a specialized treatment home for adults with severe challenging behavior

open access: yesBehavioral Interventions, Volume 39, Issue 4, November 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The conceptualisation and measurement of DSM-5 Internet Gaming Disorder: the development of the IGD-20 Test [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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
core   +5 more sources

Sexual support and education for adults with mild intellectual disabilities: a Delphi study on multiple perspectives

open access: yesJournal of Intellectual Disability Research, Volume 68, Issue 11, Page 1267-1286, November 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding service users’ and therapists’ experiences of pharmacological treatment for sexual preoccupation and/or hypersexuality in incarcerated sex offenders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
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
core   +2 more sources

Mental pathology in the field of personality and psychotic disorders, systematic review of its relationship with the commission of homicide and violent acts

open access: yesJournal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, Volume 21, Issue 3, October 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Trophy, souvenir, or simple theft? Taking items from the victim in sexual homicide

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 338-353, July/August 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Ideology and Values in Healthcare: A Commentary on Baker's (2025) Medical Lysenkoism

open access: yes
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 31, Issue 1, February 2025.
Mathew Mercuri, Alexandra Calzavara
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing child and adult sexual homicides in Australia and New Zealand: A retrospective study

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, Volume 42, Issue 4, Page 435-460, July/August 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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