ReviewAnnual review of clinical psychology2017
The Link Between Mental Illness and Firearm Violence: Implications for Social Policy and Clinical Practice.
Review in Annual review of clinical psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Pre-attack crisis indicators in mass shooters: Differences across no-, single-, and dual-harm groups.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Firearm Violence and Health in Policymaker Discourse: Mixed Methods Social Media Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Self- and other-harm in mass shooters: A dual-harm analysis.Psychiatry research · 2025Article
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- Social Drivers of Health and Firearm Storage Practices.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Zipper Pattern: An Investigation into Psychotic Criminal Detection Using EEG Signals.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Being a psychiatrist in the evaluation process of a gun license report: morally challenging experience - a qualitative study from Turkey.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2024Article
- Using Longitudinal Curriculum to Improve Psychiatry Residents' Attitudes Regarding Firearm Anticipatory Guidance.Academic psychiatry : the journal of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training and the Association for Academic Psychiatry · 2023Article
- Are people with psychiatric disorders violent?Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN · 2018Article
- Risk factors for youth violence: Youth violence commission, International Society For Research On Aggression (ISRA).Aggressive behavior · 2018Article
- An audience research study to disseminate evidence about comprehensive state mental health parity legislation to US State policymakers: protocol.Implementation science : IS · 2017Article
- Prevalence and characteristics associated with firearm ownership among low-income U.S. veterans.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological AssociationArticle
- Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Future of Psychiatric Research into American Gun Violence.Harvard review of psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
The United States has substantially higher levels of firearm violence than most other developed countries. Firearm violence is a significant and preventable public health crisis. Mental illness is a weak risk factor for violence despite popular misconceptions reflected in the media and policy. That said, mental health professionals play a critical role in assessing their patients for violence risk, counseling about firearm safety, and guiding the creation of rational and evidence-based public policy that can be effective in mitigating violence risk without unnecessarily stigmatizing people with mental illness. This article summarizes existing evidence about the interplay among mental illness, violence, and firearms, with particular attention paid to the role of active symptoms, addiction, victimization, and psychosocial risk factors. The social and legal context of firearm ownership is discussed as a preface to exploring practical, evidence-driven, and behaviorally informed policy recommendations for mitigating firearm violence risk.
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