Systematic Aggression Registration in Forensic Psychiatric Care: A Qualitative Study on Preconditions for Successful Implementation.

Available research emphasizes the importance of getting a systematic overview of inpatient aggression in forensic psychiatric care. However, the same research does not focus on how systematic aggression registration should be introduced in clinical practice. To facilitate the use of systematic aggression registration instruments, it is very relevant to gain insight into the perspective of staff members on the introduction of these instruments in daily clinical practice.

Registration of aggressive incidents in an adolescent forensic psychiatric unit and implications for further practice.

Although aggression is part of daily life in psychiatric units for adolescents, empirical data on its prevalence are sparse. Only few studies have described prevalence of aggressive incidents in adolescent psychiatric wards, and data in forensic psychiatric care are even more limited. Available studies reported high prevalence rates of aggression, ranging from 0.

Project DyAdd: implicit learning in adult dyslexia and ADHD.

In this study of the project DyAdd, implicit learning was investigated through two paradigms in adults (18-55 years) with dyslexia (n = 36) or with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, n = 22) and in controls (n = 35). In the serial reaction time (SRT) task, there were no group differences in learning. However, those with ADHD exhibited faster RTs compared to other groups.

[Managing aggression in a forensic psychiatric unit for adolescents: literature review and clinical implementation].

Background: Aggressive incidents are part and parcel of everyday life in a forensic psychiatric unit for adolescents.

Aim: To review the literature about the prevalence of aggressive incidents and about aggression management policy in (forensic) child and adolescent psychiatry and to explain and elaborate the aggression management protocol in a newly established unit.

Method: The literature was reviewed systematically using PubMed and PsycINFO in order to locate studies in English and Dutch published since 1990.