Publications by authors named "Stephen Blumenthal"
The triarchic model posits that psychopathy is a combination of phenotypes related to boldness, meanness, and disinhibition. We examined how each of these phenotypes of psychopathy related to past violence and antisocial behavior and to behavior within the prison. The sample consisted of men ( = 108) with a history of serious offending and a diagnosis of personality disorder at the point of admission to a prison serving as a therapeutic community.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Organisational consultation is widespread in the National Health Service (NHS), but little is known about its impact.
Aims: To evaluate the impact of a psychodynamically informed consultation to a high-security hospital ward.
Method: This prospective study compared measures before and after the consultation with similarly timed measures on a comparison ward in the hospital, matched for patient characteristics, but not exposed to the consultation.
Background: Risk assessment decisions have profound consequences. The contribution of affect to decision making is well established in the psychology literature, but this body of knowledge has had little influence in the field of violence risk assessment.
Aims: We sought to establish the relative contribution of actuarial and emotive information in determining risk ratings of violence.
Background: Since the late 1990s, in England and in Wales, there has been increasing interest in the particular challenges of managing offenders with personality disorder (PD). In 1999, a specialist hostel, managed by the probation service but with a high level of forensic mental health service input, was opened to high-risk PD offenders.
Aims: To describe the first 93 high-risk residents with PD who were completing sentences under life licence, parole or probation, and their outcome.