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Ryan, Seamus; Danquah, Adam N.; Berry, Katherine; Hopper, Mary – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2017
The intermediate psychological therapies service is provided for individuals referred with common mental health problems within the primary care psychological therapies service, but whose difficulties are longstanding and/or complex. The prevalence of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in intermediate psychological therapy services has not been…
Descriptors: Personality, Personality Problems, Psychological Services, Therapy
Alexander, Regi T.; Chester, Verity; Green, Fatima N.; Gunaratna, Ignatius; Hoare, Sudeep – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2015
Background: Although many with intellectual disability come to the attention of services for fire setting, research in this area is scarce, which poses challenges for management. Method: In this paper we examined those with a fire-setting history (n = 30), identified from a sample of 138 patients treated in a UK forensic intellectual disability…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Crime, Psychopathology, Mental Disorders
Gilbert, Tony; Farrand, Paul; Lankshear, Gloria – Youth & Society, 2013
This article reports on interview data gathered from 27 young people involved with a street-level service for young people considered "at risk" of diagnosis of personality disorder. Interviews with a self-selecting sample of young people explored the events that led to their initial contact with the service. Using Silverman's twin-track…
Descriptors: Interviews, At Risk Persons, Personality Problems, Social Capital
Baum, Corinna; Kuyken, Willem; Bohus, Martin; Heidenreich, Thomas; Michalak, Johannes; Steil, Regina – Assessment, 2010
The Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills (KIMS) is a well-validated multidimensional questionnaire measuring dimensions of mindfulness on four scales: Observing, Describing, Act With Awareness, and Accept Without Judgment. Even though the KIMS has been used in several clinical studies no information is available about the psychometric…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Cognitive Restructuring, Factor Analysis
Daffern, Michael; Howells, Kevin – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
It has been suggested that psychological interventions for personality disorders should focus on improving adaptive expression of the functional needs expressed through problematic behaviors such as aggression. The measurement of function is a necessary condition for devising a function-based treatment approach. Two studies that employ a method…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Aggression, Personality Traits, Patients
Coman, Paul Edmund – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2013
Change across wider English society in the 1960s was characterised by a managed and relatively consensual social liberalism. There was a discernible cultural shift toward greater personal and sexual freedom. Within education in England, a revisionist approach sought to extend traditional education to a wider constituency, in particular…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Foreign Countries, Working Class, Social Change
Lewis, Gary J.; Shakeshaft, Nicolas G.; Plomin, Robert – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and autism-like traits are associated with deficits in face memory ability, although it is not yet clear whether this deficit reflects a specific aspect of the ASD/autism-like phenotype. We addressed this issue using a neurotypical sample of adolescent twins (N[subscript complete pairs] = 782) drawn from the Twins…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Identification, Genetics
Lamb, Penny; Firbank, Dianna; Aldous, David – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
The potential benefits of physical education (PE) are universal for all pupils. However, facilitating such benefits in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) requires careful planning. This paper reports on a small-scale case study at one school in eastern England, exploring physical education through the eyes of children (n = 5), aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Children, Autism
Collishaw, Stephan; Pickles, Andrew; Messer, Julie; Rutter, Michael; Shearer, Christina; Maughan, Barbara – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2007
Objective: Child abuse is an important risk for adult psychiatric morbidity. However, not all maltreated children experience mental health problems as adults. The aims of the present study were to address the extent of resilience to adult psychopathology in a representative community sample, and to explore predictors of a good prognosis. Methods:…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Well Being, Psychopathology, Personality Traits
Barker, Edward D.; Salekin, Randall T. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: Irritability is a subdimension of ODD, which predicts mainly to internalizing disorders, and to a lesser extent, conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits. Given that youth with similar dispositions as the irritable types--as well as youth high in callous-unemotional (CU) traits--have both been reported to experience high levels…
Descriptors: Children, Social Environment, Victims, Personality Problems
Collins, J.; Barnoux, M.; Langdon, P. E. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2023
Background: The theoretical understanding of firesetting behaviour has predominantly been developed with men in prisons or psychiatric hospitals without neurodevelopmental disabilities. Consequently, there is a lack of evidence regarding the validity of current theory when applied to adults with intellectual disabilities and/or autism. Method:…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Adults, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Singer, Cara M.; Hessling, Alison; Kelly, Ellen M.; Singer, Lisa; Jones, Robin M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this meta-analytic study was to identify clinical characteristics, defined as child factors that can be assessed by a speech-language pathologist as part of a routine speech-language evaluation that may differentiate children who persist in stuttering from children who eventually recover from stuttering. Clinical…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Stuttering, Individual Characteristics, Age Differences
Betts, Lucy R.; Houston, James E.; Steer, Oonagh L.; Gardner, Sarah E. – Journal of School Violence, 2017
Positive attribution style, negative attribution style, and generalized peer trust beliefs were examined as mediators in the relationship between adolescents' peer victimization experiences and psychosocial and school adjustment. A total of 280 (150 female and 130 males, M[subscript age] = 13 years 4 months, SD[subscript age] = 1 year 1 month)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Victims, Trust (Psychology), Correlation
Macaskill, Ann; Denovan, Andrew – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2014
Balanced assessment of mental health involves assessing well-being and strengths as well as psychopathology. The character strengths of curiosity, gratitude, hope, optimism and forgiveness are assessed in 214 new undergraduates and their relationships to mental health, subjective well-being and self-esteem explored. Scoring the mental health scale…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Well Being, Life Satisfaction, Prediction
Stoeber, Joachim; Hoyle, Azina; Last, Freyja – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2013
This study investigated the Consequences of Perfectionism Scale (COPS) and its relationships with perfectionism, performance perfectionism, affect, and depressive symptoms in 202 university students using confirmatory factor analysis, correlations, and regression analyses. Results suggest that the COPS is a reliable and valid measure of positive…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Depression (Psychology), Affective Behavior, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)