Aggression - Psychology
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy.

29 Sep 2009 Violence committed by acute psychiatric inpatients represents an important and challenging problem in clinical practice. Sociodemographic, clinical, and treatment information were collected for 1324 patients (677 men and 647 women) admitted to ... Read more...

Familial aggregation of suicide explained by cluster B traits: a three-group family study of suicide controlling for major depressive disorder.

13 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: There is substantial evidence suggesting that suicide aggregates in families. However, the extent of overlap between the liability to suicide and psychiatric disorders, particularly major depressive disorder, remains an important issue. ... Read more...

[Behaviour therapy and child welfare - results of an approach to improve mental health care of aggressive children]

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: The Training with Aggressive Children (Petermann & Petermann, 2008) was integrated into the setting of a child welfare service. This study examined, if mental health care of aggressive children in child welfare settings can be improved, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Aggression - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Violent behavior in acute psychiatric inpatient facilities: a national survey in Italy. 29 Sep 2009
• In search of endophenotypes for suicidal behavior. 29 Sep 2009
• Familial aggregation of suicide explained by cluster B traits: a three-group family study of suicide controlling for major depressive disorder. 13 Sep 2009
• [Behaviour therapy and child welfare - results of an approach to improve mental health care of aggressive children] 30 Aug 2009
• [Computer games in childhood and adolescence: relations to addictive behavior, ADHD, and aggression] 30 Aug 2009
• Coaching the abrasive personality. 30 Aug 2009
• Validation of a new self-report measure of parental attributions. 30 Aug 2009
• Initial construction and validation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. 30 Aug 2009
• Is violence natural, unnatural, or rational? 30 Aug 2009
• Model of therapeutic and non-therapeutic responses to patient aggression. 30 Aug 2009
• Prazosin for the treatment of behavioral symptoms in patients with Alzheimer disease with agitation and aggression. 30 Aug 2009
• Workplace bullying and sleep disturbances: findings from a large scale cross-sectional survey in the French working population. 30 Aug 2009
• Taking on school bullies. Interventions target bullies, victims, and bystanders. 30 Aug 2009
• Low-status compensation: A theory for understanding the role of status in cultures of honor. 30 Aug 2009
• Posttraumatic stress disorder and male-perpetrated intimate partner violence. 3 Aug 2009
• Replicated nil associations of digit ratio (2D:4D) and absolute finger lengths with implicit and explicit measures of aggression. 30 Jul 2009
• Parental mediation, online activities, and cyberbullying. 30 Jul 2009
• Cyberbullying: the new face of workplace bullying? 30 Jul 2009
• Longitudinal effects of conflict behaviors on depressive symptoms in young couples. 30 Jul 2009
• Correlations among self-esteem, aggression, adverse childhood experiences and depression in inmates of a female juvenile correctional facility in Japan. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Aggression'

Definition: A form of behavior which leads to self-assertion; it may arise from innate drives and/or a response to frustration; may be manifested by destructive and attacking behavior, by covert attitudes of hostility and obstructionism, or by healthy self-expressive drive to mastery. (Dorland 27th ed)

Descriptor UI: D000374

Alternative terms: Aggression; Aggressions;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: F01.145.126.125; F01.145.813.045;

Technical Notes: human & animal; "agression" in French is translated "stress" & indexed under a STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL heading; "agressologie" = STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL