Violence and Mental Disorders

Section I General aspects.-Violence as a social, clinical and forensic problem.-Biological basis of violence in mental disorders.-Epidemiology and risk factors for violence in people with mental disorders.-Section II Risk Factors, phenomenology and characteristics of violence in mental disorders.-Violence in major mental disorders.- Psychopaty, personality disorders and violence.- Substance use disorders  and violence.-Violence and PTSD.- Major Neurocognitive disorders and violence.-Section III The contexts of violence.-Studying patients with severe mental disorders who act violently: Italian and European projects.-Prevalence and risk factors of violence by psychiatric acute inpatients: systematic review and meta-analysis. A 2019 Update.- Violence and mental disorders in Jails.-Violent behavior in Forensic Residential Facilities: the Italian experience after the closure of Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals.-Section IV Prevention and management of violence in mental health.- ViolenceRisk Assessment in mental health.-Psychoparmacology of violent behaviour among people with severe mental disorders.-Non Pharmacological approaches to violence among people with severe mental disorders.

Prof. Bernardo Carpiniello is currently a Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, Department of Medical Science and Public Health at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and Director of the Postgraduate School of Psychiatry at the same University, where he has also been the Director of the Psychiatric Clinic since 2000. His main research interests are clinical psychiatry, clinical psychopharmacology, social psychiatry, psychiatric epidemiology and consultation-liaison psychiatry. He has authored or co-authored more than 350 scientific papers, most of which were published in national or international peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Psychopathology, Clinical Practice and Epidemiology in Mental Health, and the Journal of Mental Health Systems, and is co-editor of Case Reports in Medicine. He is a board member of the Italian Society of Psychopathology (SOPSI) and past President of the Italian Society of Psychiatry. He has also been President of the Italian Academic Board of Professors, the Italian Society of Social Psychiatry and the Italian Society of Psychiatric Rehabilitation.

Prof. Antonio Vita is currently a Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Brescia, Italy; Director of the Postgraduate School of Psychiatry at the same University; and Head of the Department of Mental Health, ASST Spedali Civili in Brescia. His research activities focus on clinical, biological, pharmacological and rehabilitative aspects of mental disorders, particularly the neuromorphological and neurofunctional correlates of psychotic disorders, and rehabilitation and cognitive remediation in schizophrenia. Prof. Vita is involved in several international research networks and is the author of over 250 papers published in major national and international scientific journals. He is currently President of the Italian Group for the Study of Cognition in Psychiatry and of the Italian Societyof