Dangerous and severe parenting disorder? Personality disorder, parenting and new legal proposals

✍ Scribed by Gwen Adshead

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 82 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0952-9136
• DOI: 10.1002/car.803

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The Government has proposed new legal measures for the management of people with personality disorders who are dangerous to others. In this paper, it is argued that there is no reason why these proposed measures should not apply to those individuals with personality disorders who are parents and present a severe risk of harm to their own children. New measures that provided a legal and clinical framework for the provision of assessment and possible therapy for personality disordered parents who pose a risk to their children would fulfil a real need which is not being met. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.