Why Mothers Kill

A Forensic Psychologist's Casebook

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20007279
AutoresGeoffrey McKee (0000-0002-0329-2454, autor de correspondencia), Geoffrey R McKee
Año2006
Páginas290
Fecha de publicación2006-04-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaWhy mothers kill (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/med:psych/9780195182736.001.0001
OpenAlexW4235126223
Open LibraryOL19489560M
ISBN9780195182736
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

This title uses more than a dozen case studies to help us understand, and most importantly, prevent crimes where a mother murders her child. It applies current research findings to analyse, explain and suggest practical interventions to alter the personal, familial and situational circumstances that may influence some mothers to kill. With an emphasis on prevention, it sets out specific strategies that might have been employed at various "risk intervention points" occurring before the child's death. Through the use of extended narratives the resource brings to life the thoughts and emotions experienced by women in each of the five categories of mothers the author has identified from his years of practice. Additionally, the title presents the Maternal Filicide Risk Matrix which has been developed to help mental health and medical professionals determine the risk and protective factors that lead mothers to kill their children

Ambivalence · Casebook · Denial · Developmental psychology · Dozen · Intervention (counseling) · Mental health · Narrative · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychological intervention · Resource (disambiguation) · Situational ethics · Stalking · Computer Science · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Case studies · Child Abuse · Filicide · Forensic psychology · Infanticide · Maternal Behavior · Mental Disorders · Motherhood · Mothers · Psychological aspects · Risk Factors · Women murderers