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Roscoe, Paula; Petalas, Michael; Hastings, Richard; Thomas, Cathy – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
There is a general lack of self-report data from service users with an intellectual disability (ID) about their views of psychological interventions. This research explored the views and experiences of female inpatients, with a diagnosis of a personality disorder and an ID, about dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). Semi-structured interviews were…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Patients, Hospitals, Females
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Barrett, David E.; Katsiyannis, Antonis; Zhang, Dalun; Zhang, Dake – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2014
The authors examined the role of early adverse experiences, mental health problems, and disabilities in the prediction of juvenile delinquency and recidivism, using a matched-control group design. The delinquent group comprised 99,602 youth, born between 1981 and 1988, whose cases had been processed by the South Carolina Department of Juvenile…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Recidivism, Disabilities, Mental Disorders
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Dagan, Yaron; Ayalon, Liat – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
This case study describes a 14-year-old male suffering from significant academic and personal difficulties, who has been diagnosed with depression, schizotypal personality disorder, and learning disabilities. Because of excessive sleepiness, assessment for a potential sleep disorder was performed. An overnight polysomnographic study revealed no…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Clinical Diagnosis, Sleep, Mental Disorders
Visser, B. L. – 1980
A study examined the role of electroencephalograms (EEGs) in vocational counseling. A total of sixth-eight subjects, fifty of whom were under twenty and seventeen of whom were between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-nine, were referred for EEGs after being diagnosed as having concentration and learning difficulties. Various members of this group…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Career Counseling, Client Characteristics (Human Services)