1st Edition

Violent Extremism A Primer for Mental Health Practitioners

Edited By Caroline Logan Copyright 2022
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

This edited book presents international perspectives on the role of mental health problems in understanding and managing the risk of violent extremism. The chapters included in this book address two themes. First, they describe the research findings on the nature and prevalence of the range of mental health problems (psychosis, personality disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and... Read more

1. Risk assessment and management in violent extremism: a primer for mental health practitioners

Caroline Logan and Rachel Sellers

2. Systematic review of mental health problems and violent extremism

Paul Gill, Caitlin Clemmow, Florian Hetzel, Bettina Rottweiler, Nadine Salman, Isabelle Van Der Vegt, Zoe Marchment, Sandy Schumann, Sanaz Zolghadriha, Norah Schulten, Helen Taylor and Emily Corner

3. Severe mental disorder and terrorism: when psychosis, PTSD and addictions become a vulnerability

Zainab Al-Attar

4. Reviewing the links between violent extremism and personality, personality disorders, and psychopathy

Emily Corner, Helen Taylor, Isabelle Van Der Vegt, Nadine Salman, Bettina Rottweiler, Florian Hetzel, Caitlin Clemmow, Norah Schulten and Paul Gill

5. Violent extremism, mental health and substance abuse among adolescents: towards a trauma psychological perspective on violent radicalization and deradicalization

Daniel Koehler

6. Autism spectrum disorders and terrorism: how different features of autism can contextualise vulnerability and resilience

Zainab Al-Attar

7. Characteristics of autism spectrum disorder and susceptibility to radicalisation among young people: a qualitative study

Florian Walter, Sarah Leonard, Suhel Miah and Jenny Shaw

Biography

Caroline Logan is Consultant Forensic Clinical Psychologist. She has worked as a scholar practitioner in forensic mental health and criminal justice services for 25 years, and much of this time focused on the assessment, formulation, and management of violence risk.