Management of Patients Who Make Threats Against Elected Officials: A Case Report
Federal law makes it a crime to threaten the President of the United States. The Secret Service conducts thousands of violence risk assessments each year. Literature suggests that 75% of individuals who make threats have been diagnosed with a mental illness (1). Studies show that prominent symptoms...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2018-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Psychiatry |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00177/full |