Gun Violence and Mental Illness
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Overview
Reader-friendly, well-structured, and accessible to professional and lay audiences, the book: • Reviews the epidemiology of gun violence and its relationship to mental illness, exploring what we know about those who perpetrate mass shootings and school shootings. • Examines the current legal provisions for prohibiting access to firearms for those with mental illness and whether these provisions and new mandated reporting interventions are effective or whether they reinforce negative stereotypes associated with mental illness. • Discusses the issues raised in accessing mental health treatment in regard to diminished treatment resources, barriers to access, and involuntary commitment.• Explores novel interventions for addressing these issues from a multilevel and multidisciplinary public health perspective that does not stigmatize people with mental illness. This includes reviews of suicide risk assessment; increasing treatment engagement; legal, social, and psychiatric means of restricting access to firearms when people are in crisis; and, when appropriate, restoration of firearm rights.
Mental health clinicians and trainees will especially appreciate the risk assessment strategies presented here, and mental health, public health, and public policy researchers will find Gun Violence and Mental Illness a thoughtful and thought-provoking volume that eschews sensationalism and embraces serious scholarship.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781585624980 |
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Publisher: | American Psychiatric Association Publishing |
Publication date: | 11/17/2015 |
Pages: | 480 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Robert I. Simon, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.
Table of Contents
ContributorsForewordIntroductionAcknowledgmentsPart I: Defining the ProblemsChapter 1. Gun Violence and Serious Mental IllnessChapter 2. Firearms and Suicide in the United StatesChapter 3. Gun Violence, Urban Youth, and Mental IllnessChapter 4. Mass Shootings and Mental IllnessChapter 5: School Shootings and Mental IllnessChapter 6: Mental Illness and the National Instant Criminal Background Check SystemChapter 7. Mental Illness, Dangerousness, and Involuntary CommitmentChapter 8. Accessing Mental Health CarePart II: Moving ForwardChapter 9. Structured Violence Risk Assessment: Implications for Preventing Gun ViolenceChapter 10: Decreasing Suicide Mortality: Clinical Risk Assessment and Firearm ManagementChapter 11: Treatment Engagement, Access to Services, and Civil Commitment Reform: Would These Strategies Help Reduce Firearm-Related Risks? Chapter 12: Preventing Gun Violence: Decreasing Access to Firearms During Times of CrisisChapter 13: Relief from Disabilities: Firearm Rights Restoration for Persons Under Mental Health ProhibitionsChapter 14: Decreasing Gun Violence: Social and Public Health InterventionsAppendixResourcesWhat People are Saying About This
A major achievement. Flat out, the best book about this complex subject that has yet been published. If only it were to be read and taken seriously by politicians and media rabble-rousers. Congratulations to Profs. Gold and Simon for a superb work.
On a subject of immense current interest, great emotional heat, yet little sound research, this book breaks new ground in presenting a nonpolarized, nonpolitical, and nonpolemical analysis of both the real and perceived associations between firearms deaths and mental illness. From a host of perspectives, the known-to-be-weak connection between the two elements is analyzed in terms of the best current research and most practical public health approaches. Edited by two leading forensic psychiatrists, this book is a beacon in a dark place.