Background/Method Three different measures of personality were used to assess the level of personality disorder in a prison population in Christchurch, New Zealand. Results Results using a traditional measure for antisocial personality disorder assessment (SCID II) are reported as well as other meas
The Christchurch prisons psychiatric epidemiology study: methodology and prevalence rates for psychiatric disorders
β Scribed by Assoc. Prof. Philip M.J. Brinded; Isobel Stevens; Roger T. Mulder; Nigel Fairley; Fiona Malcolm; J. Elizabeth Wells
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 129 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-9664
- DOI
- 10.1002/cbm.301
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