Clinical Approaches To The Mentally Disordered Offender

K Howells

• 12 augustus 1993
• 9780471939085

Samenvatting:

Opening with a discussion of the conceptual issues that relate mental disorder to criminal behaviour, this study covers law provisions, including the legal classification for the mentally disordered offender, clinical assessment and intervention, and the clinical programmes available.



For psychologists and psychiatrists working with offenders, this book examines the problems of criminal behavior as linked with mental disorder, including psychopathy, mental illness and mental handicap. Clinical assessment and clinical intervention for these three main groups will be explored, looking at details of practice, the programs themselves and their success rates. The volume further deals with conceptual issues and legal classification.