Is Criminal Sentencing Influenced by Type of Disorder?
Differences in sentencing due to disorder and gender were examined. Four scenarios were randomly presented for each disorder type. Participants indicated the sentence length for each scenario and whether they would parole the individual.
Jones, Tessa, Koch, Christopher
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Student health professionals' attitudes and experience after watching 'Ida's diary', a first-person account of living with borderline personality disorder:mixed methods study [PDF]
BACKGROUND: There is increasing interest in the use of commercial movies in nursing education, or 'cinenurducation'. There is a need for educational interventions which target mental health nurses' attitudes towards people with borderline personality ...
Dickens, Geoffrey L. +2 more
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Background The effects of pandemic-related restrictions on people in prisons who tend to have multiple complex health needs are not well understood. Aims We aimed to measure changes in adjudications and self-harm among people in prisons before and ...
Steven M. Gillespie +8 more
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Paranoid Personality Disorder.
Excerpt: The core feature of a paranoid personality disorder (PPD) is a longstanding, pervasive pattern of mistrust in the motives of others. Persons with this disorder assume that others have malevolent intentions to harm, exploit, or deceive them ...
Thurston, Nancy S.
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Understanding mechanisms of genetic risk for adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems: The mediating role of parenting and personality [PDF]
Genetic predispositions play an important role in the development of internalizing and externalizing behaviors. Understanding the mechanisms through which genetic risk unfolds to influence these developmental outcomes is critical for developing ...
Bucholz, Kathleen K +6 more
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Impulsive traits and 5-HT2A receptor promoter polymorphism in alcohol dependents: Possible association but no influence of personality disorders [PDF]
Objective: Impulsive behavior in alcoholics puts them at serious risk of severer course of disease and has been related to the serotonergic neurotransmission dysfunction.
Bahlmann, Miriam +4 more
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Clinical importance of personality difficulties : diagnostically sub-threshold personality disorders [PDF]
Background: Current categorical classification of personality disorders has been criticized for overlooking the dimensional nature of personality and that it may miss some sub-threshold personality disturbances of clinical significance.
Horjamo, Kalle +4 more
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Suppresion of aggression in regard of some personality disorders [PDF]
In this article people with depressive, dependent and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and people without personality disorder are compared in regard of the suppression of aggression that shows itself in physical symptoms (i.e.
Miloš Židanik
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Clinical aspects of personality disorder diagnosis in the DSM-5
: Personality disorders represent psychopathological conditions hard to be diagnosed. The Author highlights the clinical aspects of personality disorder diagnosis according to the criteria of the DSM-5.
Francesco Modica
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Background: In many patients, emotional stress may exacerbate acne. Psychological problems such as social phobias, low self-esteem, or depression may also occur as a result of acne.
Sharmila Sarkar +5 more
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