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• Title:Gun violence and mental illness / edited by Liza H. Gold ; Robert I. Simon, co-editor.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Gold, Liza H., 1958- editor.
  Simon, Robert I., editor.
  American Psychiatric Association, issuing body.
  
• Published/Created:Arlington, VA : American Psychiatric Association Publishing, [2016]
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WM29.5 .G86 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Violence--Risk assessment--United States.
  Dangerously mentally ill--United States.
  Firearms ownership--Risk assessment--United States.
  Gun control--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Firearms--legislation & jurisprudence.
  Mentally Ill Persons.
  Mental Disorders--psychology.
  Risk Assessment--methods.
  Suicide.
  Violence.
  United States.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xlvi, 434 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:Perhaps never before has an objective, evidence-based review of the intersection between gun violence and mental illness been more sorely needed or more timely. Gun Violence and Mental Illness, written by a multidisciplinary roster of authors who are leaders in the fields of mental health, public health, and public policy, is a practical guide to the issues surrounding the relation between firearms deaths and mental illness. Tragic mass shootings that capture headlines reinforce the mistaken beliefs that people with mental illness are violent and responsible for much of the gun violence in the United States. This misconception stigmatizes individuals with mental illness and distracts us from the awareness that approximately 65% of all firearm deaths each year are suicides. This book is an apolitical exploration of the misperceptions and realities that attend gun violence and mental illness. The authors frame both pressing social issues as public health problems subject to a variety of interventions on individual and collective levels, including utilization of a novel perspective: evidence-based interventions focusing on assessments and indicators of dangerousness, with or without indications of mental illness. -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781585624980 paperback alkaline paper
  1585624985 paperback alkaline paper
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Defining the Problems
  1. Gun Violence and Serious Mental Illness / Daniel W. Webster
  2. Firearms and Suicide in the United States / Deborah Azrael
  3. Gun Violence, Urban Youth, and Mental Illness / Carl C. Bell
  4. Mass Shootings and Mental Illness / George D. Annas
  5. School Shootings and Mental Illness / Peter Ash
  6. Mental Illness and the National Instant Criminal Background Check System / Donna M. Norris
  7. Mental Illness, Dangerousness, and Involuntary Commitment / Carol Spaderna
  8. Accessing Mental Health Care / Liza H. Gold
  pt. II Moving Forward
  9. Structured Violence Risk Assessment: Implications for Preventing Gun Violence / Daniel C. Murrie
  10. Decreasing Suicide Mortality: Clinical Risk Assessment and Firearm Management / Liza H. Gold
  11. Treatment Engagement, Access to Services, and Civil Commitment Reform: Would These Strategies Help Reduce Firearm-Related Risks? / Debra A. Finals
  12. Preventing Gun Violence: Decreasing Access to Firearms During Times of Crisis / Kelly Ward
  13. Relief From Disabilities: Firearm Rights Restoration for Persons Under Mental Health Prohibitions / Donna Vanderpool
  14. Decreasing Gun Violence: Social and Public Health interventions / Shani A.L. Buggs.