Domestic Violence: The Psychiatrist’s Role in Detection and Intervention
Psychiatrists can play a key role in detecting signs of abuse, helping the individual to create a safety plan, and providing trauma interventions.
Psychiatrists can play a key role in detecting signs of abuse, helping the individual to create a safety plan, and providing trauma interventions.
IED has comorbidities, including mood disorders, lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and substance abuse.
Link only seen in study participants aged 24 and younger.
Link to actual violence is unclear, and other factors may be at play, APA task force says.
The synthetic stimulant “Flakka” can cause users to have thoughts or feelings of violence toward themselves or others.
In general, statins were found to increase aggression in postmenopausal women, but decrease it in men.
Only 12% of violent incidents committed by high-risk psychiatric patients were preceded by hallucinations and delusions.
More than 25% of children have either been a victim of or have witnessed violence involving guns, knives, rocks and sticks, leading to trauma symptoms.
Long-term study finds rates of suicide, early death and violent crime continue to increase over time in patients with schizophrenia.
An study of people convicted of homicides found that using benzodiazepines was associated with a 45% increased risk of doing so.