Two studies on the prevalence and validity of personality disorder in three forensic intellectual disability samples

Autor: Paul Mooney, Gregory O'Brien, Todd Hogue, Susan Johnston, Lesley Steptoe, William R. Lindsay, John L. Taylor, Anne H. W. Smith
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology. 17:485-506
ISSN: 1478-9957
1478-9949
DOI: 10.1080/14789940600821719
Popis: There is an extensive research literature on the association between personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and risk of future violent and sexual offences. Several studies have found an elevated prevalence of personality disorder diagnoses amongst those individuals with severe mental illness and criminal populations. While there has been some work on the prevalence of personality disorder among intellectual disability populations, it has been criticised as being unreliable and inconsistent. The present authors have taken account of these criticisms and recommendations in this comparison of 164 offenders with intellectual disability across three settings – community, medium/low secure, and high secure. In Study 1, DSM-IV diagnoses were made on the basis of four information sources: file review, interview with clinician, observations by care staff, and the Structured Assessment of Personality Interview. Across the samples, total prevalence of PD was 39.3%. The most common diagnosis ...
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