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An empirical approach to the classification and treatment of maximum security psychiatric patients
Author(s) -
Rice Marnie E.,
Harris Grant T.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
behavioral sciences and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.649
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1099-0798
pISSN - 0735-3936
DOI - 10.1002/bsl.2370060407
Subject(s) - social security , incidence (geometry) , psychiatry , maximum security , forensic psychiatry , cluster (spacecraft) , medicine , psychology , computer science , physics , criminology , optics , prison , political science , law , programming language
Treatment approaches with forensic patients have traditionally been nonspecific and have been based primarily on legal or diagnostic categories. The current study, stimulated by the need to reorganize treatment and assessment services, examined the incidence among 189 maximum security psychiatric patients of 70 problems commonly exhibited either in the community prior to admission or within the institution. Through a series of factor and cluster analyses, a model for the placement and treatment of these patients was developed that included assaultiveness, level of functioning, social withdrawal, and active psychotic symptoms.