Violent Extremism: A Primer for Mental Health Practitioners

by Caroline Logan (Editor)

Overview

This edited book presents international perspectives on the role of mental health problems in understanding and managing the risk of violent extremism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032170473
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/29/2024
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Caroline Logan is Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a scholar practitioner in forensic mental health and criminal justice services for 25 years, and much of this time focused on the assessment, formulation, and management of violence risk.

Table of Contents

1. Risk assessment and management in violent extremism: a primer for mental health practitioners 2. Systematic review of mental health problems and violent extremism 3. Severe mental disorder and terrorism: when psychosis, PTSD and addictions become a vulnerability 4. Reviewing the links between violent extremism and personality, personality disorders, and psychopathy 5. Violent extremism, mental health and substance abuse among adolescents: towards a trauma psychological perspective on violent radicalization and deradicalization 6. Autism spectrum disorders and terrorism: how different features of autism can contextualise vulnerability and resilience 7. Characteristics of autism spectrum disorder and susceptibility to radicalisation among young people: a qualitative study