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Suicide and Aggressive Behaviors in Severe Mental Illness
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Suicide and Aggressive Behaviors in Severe Mental Illness

A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Neuropsychiatry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 November 2022) | Viewed by 3016

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Manuela Dudeck

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Guest Editor
Department of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ulm University, 89312 Guenzburg, Germany
Interests: forensic patients; schizophrenia; addiction; trauma; aggression; suicide; ethics in forensic psychiatry; migration
Dr. Judith Streb

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Guest Editor Assistant
Department of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
Interests: forensic psychiatry; aggression; adverse childhood experiences; trauma; schizophrenia

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “Suicide and Aggressive Behaviors in Severe Mental Illness”, in collaboration with the MDPI journal Brain Sciences (IF: 3.114).

Suicide and aggressive behavior appear to be intricately linked, as individuals convicted for violent crimes show an increased risk of committing suicide. Thus, it has been argued that interpersonal violence may arise from the same cognitive distortion as suicidal behavior. Initially hightened anxiety and fear may result in personal distress. The inability to release this distress in the form of violence may then give cause for self-directed aggression. The central overlapping factor in interpersonal and self-directed aggression is mental illness; there is evidence to suggest that people with psychiatric diagnoses are twice as likely to commit violent crimes and five times as likely to commit suicide.

Hence, this Special Issue aims to examine the effects of various biological, environmental, personal, and situational variables on aggressive or suicidal behavior in people with severe mental illness.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. The research areas may include, but are not limited to, general and forensic psychiatric patients and prisoners.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Manuela Dudeck
Guest Editor

Dr. Judith Streb
Guest Editor Assistant

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Keywords

  • forensic psychiatric patients
  • psychiatric patients
  • violence
  • self-directed aggression
  • violent crime
  • biomarkers
  • molecular mechanisms
  • imaging data
  • pharamcology
  • genetics

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Feasibility of Screening Programs for Domestic Violence in Pediatric and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: A Literature Review
by Elena Arigliani, Miriam Aricò, Gioia Cavalli, Franca Aceti, Carla Sogos, Maria Romani and Mauro Ferrara
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(9), 1235; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12091235 - 13 Sep 2022
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Each year, 275 million children worldwide are exposed to domestic violence (DV) and suffer negative mental and physical health consequences; however, only a small proportion receive assistance. Pediatricians and child psychiatrists can play a central role in identifying threatened children. We reviewed experiences [...] Read more.
Each year, 275 million children worldwide are exposed to domestic violence (DV) and suffer negative mental and physical health consequences; however, only a small proportion receive assistance. Pediatricians and child psychiatrists can play a central role in identifying threatened children. We reviewed experiences of DV screening in pediatric and child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to understand its feasibility and provide clues for its implementation. We performed bibliographic research using the Sapienza Library System, PubMed, and the following databases: MEDLINE, American Psychological Association PsycArticles, American Psychological Association PsycInfo, ScienceDirect, and Scopus. We considered a 20-year interval when selecting the articles and we included studies published in English between January 2000 and March 2021. A total of 23 out of 2335 studies satisfied the inclusion criteria. We found that the prevalence of disclosed DV ranged from 4.2% to 48%, with most prevalence estimates between 10% and 20%. Disclosure increases with a detection plan, which is mostly welcomed by mothers (70–80% acceptance rates). Written tools were used in 55% of studies, oral interviews in 40%, and computer instruments in 20%. Mixed forms were used in three studies (15%). The most used and effective tool appeared to be the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS) (30% of studies). For young children, parental reports are advisable and written instruments are the first preference; interviews can be conducted with older children. Our research pointed out that the current literature does not provide practical clinical clues on facilitating the disclosure in pediatric clinics and CAMHS. Further studies are needed on the inpatient population and in the field of children psychiatry. Full article
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