Importance Violence perpetration outcomes in individuals with schizophrenia spectrum
disorders contribute to morbidity and mortality at a population level, disrupt care, and lead to …

Background: Little is known about changes in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders
between childhood and adolescence, and adolescence and adulthood. Methods: We …

Treatments have been developed and tested to successfully reduce the symptoms and
disabilities of many mental illnesses. Unfortunately, people distressed by these illnesses …

This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

This review considers the potential influences of the use of cannabis for therapeutic
purposes (CTP) on areas of interest to mental health professionals, with foci on adult …

Originally published in February 2004. This guideline is more than 5 years old and has not
yet been updated to ensure that it reflects current knowledge and practice. In accordance …

Background Although expert opinion has asserted that there is an increased risk of violence
in individuals with schizophrenia and other psychoses, there is substantial heterogeneity …

Abstract The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study began more than
four decades ago. Unusual at the time, it was founded as a multidisciplinary research …

Purpose This article describes epidemiologic evidence concerning risk of gun violence and
suicide linked to psychiatric disorders, in contrast to media-fueled public perceptions of the …

Context Persons with schizophrenia are thought to be at increased risk of committing violent
crime 4 to 6 times the level of general population individuals without this disorder. However …