A Comparison of Violence in Individuals with Severe Mental Illness Based Upon Diagnoses.
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The correlation between psychiatric illness and aggression is a consistently controversial issue. This research seeks to provide a better understanding of the correlation between diagnosis and aggression as well as the role of additional factors including noncompliance with medication, and history of substance abuse. Upon reviewing the findings, it also offers recommendations for approaches to handling mentally ill persons exhibiting signs of aggression, based on social theories explaining the cause of such behavior. This study, using archival Vista Pacifica Center data, investigated the differences in the rates of violence amongst individuals with a mood disorder, individuals with psychosis, and individuals with a diagnosis that incorporates both a mood disorder and psychosis. The residents were monitored daily in regards to their mood swings. Mood swings are measured in terms physical and verbal aggression. This is where the data for the rates of violence was retrieved.