About this Research Topic
This Research Topic brings together the latest research focused on areas relating to the assessment and management of violence perpetration in psychiatric populations.
Contributions could include, but are not limited to, papers on the following themes:
- Validity, utility, or limitations of risk assessment tools for the prediction of violence in psychiatry.
- Reviews, Mini-reviews and papers addressing limitations of current international guidelines.
- Studies examining prevalence or associations of violence perpetration in psychiatric populations.
- Research addressing cultural, socioeconomic or other factors relating to violence in psychiatric populations.
- Research addressing interventions to reduce violence risk.
- Opinion and Perspective articles on the application, limitations, and challenges of assessing and managing violence risk in psychiatric clinical practice
- Studies addressing the integration of treatment where violence risk interventions and other treatment interventions are combined into a working treatment plan
Contributions could include, but are not limited to, papers on the following themes:
- Validity, utility, or limitations of risk assessment tools for the prediction of violence in psychiatry.
- Reviews, Mini-reviews and papers addressing limitations of current international guidelines.
- Studies examining prevalence or associations of violence perpetration in psychiatric populations.
- Research addressing cultural, socioeconomic or other factors relating to violence in psychiatric populations.
- Research addressing interventions to reduce violence risk.
- Opinion and Perspective articles on the application, limitations, and challenges of assessing and managing violence risk in psychiatric clinical practice
- Studies addressing the integration of treatment where violence risk interventions and other treatment interventions are combined into a working treatment plan
Keywords: clinical guidelines, forensic psychiatry, agression, violence
Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
