Titre : | Violent behavior in mental illness: the role of substance abuse [Commentary] (2010) |
Auteurs : | J. VOLAVKA ; SWANSON J. |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol.304, n°5, August 4, 2010) |
Article en page(s) : | 563-564 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | PSY (Psychopathologie / Psychopathology) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés VIOLENCE ; COMORBIDITE ; ABUS ; PSYCHOPATHOLOGIE |
Résumé : |
That comorbid substance use disorders substantially increase the risk for violence in mental illness has been known for decades. However, the prevailing view, based on US1 and Scandinavian epidemiologic studies, has been that serious mental illness also confers a significant relative risk for violence even in the absence of such comorbidity. Accordingly, a broad clinical consensus has emerged that violence risk management in psychiatric patients with dual diagnoses requires treatment of both the underlying psychopathology and comorbid substance abuse.
Recent epidemiologic studies have prompted reexamination of this prevailing view. These new studies report little if any increased risk for violence associated with serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depressive disorder) unless there is comorbidity with substance use disorder. [Extract] |
Domaine : | Plusieurs produits / Several products |
Refs biblio. : | 10 |
Affiliation : | Department of Psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA |
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