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Gun violence and mental illness--Evidence? Solutions?

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Date
2015-10-07
Main contributor
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Summary
Columbine. Virginia Tech. Ft. Hood. Huntsville. Tucson. Aurora. Newtown. The Navy Yard. Charleston. Roseburg. Gun violence, including a relentless raft of mass shootings, is epidemic today in the U.S., threatening individual safety and public health and wellbeing. The grim tally for 2015, says the Washington Post, is 294 mass shootings in 274 days. Many shooters are said to have undiagnosed or undertreated mental illness in their background.

How does psychopathology contribute to violent behavior, particularly involving firearms, over a person's life course and in the social environment? How accurate and useful are clinicians’ predictions of violence in their patients? What is an appropriate role for clinicians as “gun gatekeepers” and for mental health services generally, as part of a public-health solution to gun violence? This Medical Center Hour reviews research related to these urgent questions and explores implications for clinicians and other mental-health stakeholders.

Co-presented with the Institute for Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy and the School of Law, UVA
A John F. Anderson Memorial Lecture
Contributors
Swanson, Jeffrey, 1957- (Speaker)
Bonnie, Richard J. (Speaker)
Childress, Marcia Day (Moderator)
University of Virginia. School of Medicine
Publisher
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Genre
Filmed lectures
Subjects
Gun control--United States
Mental illness
Collection
Medical Center Hour
Unit
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
Language
English
Terms of Use
The speakers in this presentation have given the University of Virginia permission to make it freely accessible online for all audiences to view. To request permission to reproduce, republish, and/or repost this presentation please contact the Historical Collections and Services Department of the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, 61:49 min.) : sound, color
Access Restrictions
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