Personality, Personality Disorder and Violence: An Evidence Based Approach

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Mary McMurran, Richard Howard
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 12, 2009 - Psychology - 352 pages
Presents the evidence-base for links between personality traits, psychological functioning, personality disorder and violence - with a focus on assessment and treatment approaches that will help clinicians to assess risk in this client group.
  • An evidence-based examination of those personality traits and types of psychological functioning that may contribute to personality disorder and violence- and the links that can be made between the two
  • Each chapter tackles an area of personality or psychological functioning and includes a developmental perspective, discussion of how to gauge risk, and an outline of effective treatments
  • Traits covered include impulsivity, aggressiveness, narcissism and the ‘Big Five’ - neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness
  • New for the prestigious Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology, a market leader with more than 20,000 books in print
 

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Contents

PART I TRAITS
39
PART II AFFECT
155
PART III COGNITION
245
CONCLUSION
297
Index
313
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About the author (2009)

Mary McMurran is Professor of Personality Disorder Research at the University of Nottingham. She is series editor for the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology and her previous books include Motivating Offenders to Change, commended by the BMA. She is co-editor of Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health and associate editor of both The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology and Legal and Criminological Psychology. She received the Senior Award for Significant Lifetime Contribution from the British Psychological Society in 2005.

Richard Howard is Senior Research Fellow at The Peaks Academic and Research Unit at Rampton Hospital in the UK, and Reader in Personality Disorder Research at the University of Nottingham.

Bibliographic information

TitlePersonality, Personality Disorder and Violence: An Evidence Based Approach
Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology
EditorsMary McMurran, Richard Howard
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2009
ISBN0470059796, 9780470059791
Length352 pages
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Psychology / General
Psychology / Personality
  
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