Aggression: Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment

✍ Scribed by Emil Coccaro

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 398
• Series: Medical Psychiatry, Vol. 22
• Edition: Rev Exp
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text studies genetic, developmental and biopsychosocial models of aggression; additional forms of antisocial behaviour; and risk factors including poverty and peer rejection for improved understanding of the pathways possibly contributing to impulsive aggressive outbreaks. It contains a comprehensive review of aggression and impulsivity measures for children and adolescents.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Series Introduction William A. Frosch......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Contributors......Page 11
1. Phenomenological Models of Aggression and Impulsivity: Implications for Clinical Research and Treatment of Human Aggression......Page 14
2. Genetic Models of Aggression, Impulsivity, and Related Behaviors......Page 31
3. Developmental Models of Aggression......Page 52
4. Biopsychosocial Approaches to Aggression......Page 71
5. Impulsivity......Page 85
6. Anger Disorders......Page 98
8. Impulsive Aggression......Page 131
9. Intermittent Explosive Disorder......Page 157
10. Questionnaire and Interview Measures of Aggression in Adults......Page 175
13. Psychometric Measurement of Impulsivity......Page 235
15. Measurement of Aggression in Children and Adolescents......Page 272
16. Psychosocial Interventions: Anger Disorders......Page 297
17. Psychosocial Interventions for Intimate-Partner Violence......Page 317
18. Psychopharmacological Interventions: Neuroleptics and Lithium......Page 335
20. Pharmacological Interventions: Anticonvulsants......Page 371
A......Page 386
B......Page 388
C......Page 389
E......Page 390
I......Page 391
M......Page 393
P......Page 394
S......Page 395
T......Page 396
Y......Page 397