Sunday, October 22, 2006

Prevalence of victimization, posttraumatic stress disorder and violent behaviour in the seriously mentally ill

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 40(11-12)
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/anp/40/11-12
Alexander Mc Farlane, Geoff Schrader, Clara Bookless, Derek Browne
"There is evidence that individuals with a mental illness are more likely to report a history of victimization and to be at an increased risk for future victimization. The aims of the current study are to determine lifetime rates of different types of victimization in a population of psychiatric inpatients and to examine the associations between a history of victimization and measures of adverse outcome and rates of posttraumatic stress disorder […]" [Sub Required]