Violence among the Mentally III: Effective Treatments and Management Strategies - Nato Science Series D: 2000 edition

Marc Notes: Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division.; Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Effective Prevention of Crime and Violence among Persons with Major Mental Disorders, Il Ciocco, Italy, 16-26 May 1999--T.p. verso.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Introduction. I: Violence by the Mentally Ill: Prevalence, Triggers, and Determinants. Major Mental Disorders and Crime in the Community: A Focus on Patient Populations and Cohort Investigations; P. A. Brennan, et al. Reducing Violence Risk: Diagnostically Based Clues from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study; J. Monahan, P. S. Appelbaum. Immediate Precursors of Violence Among Persons with Mental Illness: A Return to a Situational Perspective; H. J. Steadman, E. Silver. Commentary: Monahan and Appelbaum, Reducing Violence Risk: Diagnostically Based Clues from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study'; Steadman and Silver, Immediate Precursors of Violence Among Persons with Mental Illness: A Return to a Situational Perspective'; G. Cote. Etiological Factors Linked to Criminal Violence and Adult Mental Illness; J. A. Tehrani, S. A. Mednick. Commentary: Tehrani and Mednick, Etiological Factors Linked to Criminal Violence and Adult Mental Illness'; M. Virkkunen. The Etiology and Development of Offending Among Persons with Major Mental Disorders: Conceptual and Methodological Issues and Some Preliminary Findings; S. Hodgins. II: Assessment, Effective Treatment, and Management. Capturing Change: An Approach to Managing Violence and Improving Mental Health; C. D. Webster, et al. Treatment Implications of the Antecedents of Criminality and Violence in Schizophrenia and Major Affective Disorders; J. D. Bloom, et al. Pharmacological Intervention for Preventing Violence Among the Mentally Ill with Secondary Alcohol- and Drug-Use Disorders; J. Tiihonen, M. S. Swartz. Pharmacological Interventions for Preventing Violence Among the Mentally Ill with Co-occurring Personality Disorders; J. Volavka, L. Citrome. III: Preventing Violence inHospitals. Institutional Violence Among the Mentally Ill; V. L. Quinsey. High-Risk Factors for Violence: Emerging Evidence and Its Relevance to Effective Treatment and Prevention of Violence on Psychiatric Wards; S. Bjorkly. Violence Against Others by Psychiatric Hospital Inpatients with Psychosis: Prevention Strategies and Challenges to Their Evaluation; P. J. Taylor, H. Schanda. Effective Treatment Strategies for Preventing Violence on Psychiatric Wards; G. Fransson. IV: Preventing Violence in Correctional Facilities. Major Mental Disorder and Violence in Correctional Settings: Size Specificity and Implications for Practice; D. J. Cooke. Effective Treatment for Disturbed Violent Prisoners? H. Toch. V: Preventing Violence in the Community. The Efficacy and Effectiveness of Community Treatment Programmes in Preventing Crime and Violence Among Those with Severe Mental Illness in the Community; K. Heilbrun, L. Peters. Commentary: Heilbrun and Peters, The Efficacy and Effectiveness of Community Treatment Programmes in Preventing Crime and Violence Among Those with Severe Mental Illness in the Community'; J. McGuire. Social Services Necessary for Community Treatment Programmes Designed to Prevent Crime and Violence Among Persons with Major Mental Disorders; G. Hoyer. Social and Community Services and the Risk for Violence Among People with Serious Psychiatric Disorders: In Search of Mechanisms; S. E. Estroff. Community Treatment Programmes in Europe and the United Kingdom that Have Proven Effective in Preventing Violence by the Mentally Ill in the Community: Administrative, Organizational, Legal, and Clinical Aspects; R. Ferris. Treatment of Mentally Ill Offenders in the Community: A Clinical Perspective; P. Gottlieb, A. Finzen."Publisher Marketing: The NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Prevention of Crime and Violence Among the Mentally III was held in May 1999 in Tuscany, Italy. Participants from 15 countries attended. Since care for persons with mental illness (schizophrenia, major depression, bipolar disorder, delusional disorder, atypical psychoses) has been deinstitutionalized, some persons with these disorders are committing crimes and serious violence. Consequently, societies around the world are confronted with a new challenge: to provide mental health care and social services to mentally ill persons in a humane way that will prevent illegal behaviours. Research in this field has been dominated by investigations designed to improve clinicians' accuracy in predicting violent behaviours, with little attention focused on the organization and implemen tation of treatments. The premise of the Advanced Study Institute was that treatments must have em pirically proven efficacy. Both professional ethics and public accountability require empirical evidence that each treatment will alleviate the problem that it targets. However, despite the fact that Western industrial societies provide treatment for mentally ill persons who have offended, there is a very limited base of knowledge on what constitutes effective treatment and how such treatments should be organized and delivered. The Advanced Study Institute was an attempt to stimulate and encour age research that will extend this knowledge base. The goals were to review what is known about mentally ill offenders and about effective treatments for them, and to provide a framework for the orientation of future investigations designed to improve treatment efficacy." Review Citations:

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Contributor Bio:  North Atlantic Treaty Organization Dedication. Preface. Acknowledgments. Clifford Geometric Algebras in Multilinear Algebra and Non-Euclidean Geometries.- Geometric algebra Projective Geometries; Affine and other geometries; Affine Geometry of pseudo-euclidean space; Conformal Geometry and the Horosphere; References. Content-Based Information Retrieval by Group Theoretical Methods.- Introduction; Motivating Examples; General Concept; Fault Tolerance.- Applications, Prototypes, and Test Results; Related Work and Future Research; References.- Four Problems in Radar.-Introduction; Radar Fundamentals; Radar Waveforms; Signal Processing; Space-Time Adaptive Processing; Four Problems in Radar; Conclusions. Introduction to Generalized Classical and Quantum Signal and System Theories on Groups and Hypergroups.-Generalized classical signal/system theory on hypergroups; Generalized quantum signal/system theory on hypergroups; Conclusion; References. Lie Groups and Lie Algebras in Robotics.- Introduction -- Rigid Body Motions; Lie Groups; Finite Screw Motions; Mechanical Joints; Invisible Motion and Gripping; Forward Kinematics; Lie Algebra; The Adjoint Representation; The Exponential Map Derivatives of Exponentials; Jacobians; Concluding Remarks; References. Quantum/Classical Interface: a Geometric Approach from the Classical Side.- Introduction Paravector Space as Spacetime; Eigenspinors; Spin; Dirac Equation; Bell's Theorem; Qubits and Entanglement; Conclusions; References. PONS, Reed-Muller Codes, and Group Algebras.- Introduction; Analytic Theory of One-Dimensional PONS (Welti); Shapiro Sequences, Reed-Muller Codes, and Functional Equations; Group Algebras; Reformulation of Classical PONS; Group Algebra of Classical PONS; GroupAlgebra Convolution; Splitting Sequences; Historical Appendix on PONS; References. Clifford Algebras as a Unified Language.- Introduction; Clifford algebras as models of physical spaces; Clifford Algebras as Models of Perceptual Multicolor Spaces; Hypercomplex-Valued invariants of nD multicolor images; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Recent Progress and Applications in Group FFTs.-Introduction; Finite group FFTs; FFTs for compact groups; Noncompact groups; References. Group Filters and Image Processing.- Introduction: Classical Digital Signal Processing; Abelian Group DSP; Nonabelian Groups; Examples; Group Transforms; Group Filters; Line-like Images; Acknowledgments; References. A Geometric Algebra Approach to Some Problems of Robot Vision.- Introduction; Local Analysis of Multi-dimensional Signals; Knowledge Based Neural Computing; Acknowledgments; References. Group Theory in Radar and Signal Processing.- Introduction; How a Radar Works; Representations; Representations and Radar; Ambiguity Functions; The Wide Band Case; References. Geometry of Paravector Space with Applications to Relativistic Physics.- Clifford Algebras in Physics; Paravector Space as Spacetime; Interpretation; Eigenspinors; Maxwell's Equation; Conclusions; References. A Unified Approach to Fourier-Clifford-Prometheus Transforms- Introduction; New construction of classical and multiparametric Prometheus transforms; PONS associated with Abelian groups; Fast Fourier-Prometheus Transforms; Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References. Fast Color Wavelet Transforms.- Introduction; Color images; Color Wavelet-Haar-Prometheus transforms; Edge detection and compression of color images; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References. Selected Problems; Various Authors.- Transformations of Euclidean Space and Clifford Geometric; Algebra; References; On the Distribution of Kloosterman Sums on Polynomials over Quaternions; References; Harmonic Sliding Analysis Problems; References; Spectral Analysis under Conditions of Uncertainty; A Canonical Basis for Maximal Tori of the Reductive Centrizer of a Nilpotent Element; References; 6 The Quantum Chaos Conjecture References; Four Problems in Radar; Topic Index; Author IndexContributor Bio:  Hodgins, Sheilagh Sheilagh Hodgins is Professor at the Universite de Montreal, Foreign Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, and Adjunct Professor at Concordia University, Montreal. Her recent books include Violence Among the Mentally Ill: Effective Treatments and Management Strategies (2000) and with R. Muller-Isberner Violence, Crime and Mentally Disordered Offenders: Concepts and Methods for Effective Treatment and Prevention (2000).