Loren H Roth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3929423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loren H Roth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loren H |
| FAMILY NAME | Roth |
| SIGNATURE | ROTH L H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking Risk Assessment
The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for three decades research has shown that clinicians’ unaided assessments of “dangerousness” are barely better than chance. Rethinking Risk Assessment: T…
A classification tree approach to the development of actuarial violence risk assessment tools
Since the 1970s, a wide body of research has suggested that the accuracy of clinical risk assessments of violence might be increased if clinicians used actuarial tools. Despite considerable progress in recent years in the development of such tools for violence risk assessment, they remain primarily research instruments, largely ignored in daily clinical practice. We argue that because most existing actuarial tools are based on a main effects regr…
Violence by People Discharged From Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Facilities and by Others in the Same Neighborhoods
BACKGROUND: The public perception that mental disorder is strongly associated with violence drives both legal policy (eg, civil commitment) and social practice (eg, stigma) toward people with mental disorders. This study describes and characterizes the prevalence of community violence in a sample of people discharged from acute psychiatric facilities at 3 sites. At one site, a comparison group of other residents in the same neighborhoods was also…
False Hopes and Best Data
Paul S. Appelbaum, Loren H. Roth, Charles W. Lidz, Paul Benson, William Winslade, False Hopes and Best Data: Consent to Research and the Therapeutic Misconception, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Apr., 1987), pp. 20-24
The promise and peril of involuntary outpatient commitment
The promise and peril of involuntary outpatient commitment
Psychiatric Treatment and the Romance of the Law
Informed consent in psychiatric research
Case Studies
Mrs. X and the Bone Marrow Transplant
The case is presented in which a leukemia patient sought an order from an Iowa district court to compel the University of Iowa Institutional Review Board (IRB) to recontact, specifically on the patient's behalf, a potential bone marrow donor who had refused a general request to participate in the transplant program. Charles Lidz, Alan Meisel, and Loren Roth argue against judicial intervention, primarily on the grounds that a follow-up letter woul…
The therapeutic misconception
Must a Man Be His Cousin's Keeper
ing to compel one person to donate a portion of his body to Yet recent events in Pittsburgh raised just that question. Robert McFall, a thirty-nine-yearold, unmarried asbestos worker, suffering from a usually fatal aplastic anemia, filed a suit in Judge Flaherty's court seeking an injunction to compel David Shimp, his unwilling cousin, to undergo a bone marrow transplant that doctors claimed was necessary to save McFall's life. The average citize…
'Voluntary' Castration
Prison Adjustment of Alcoholic Felons
Alcoholics in a penitentiary were more intelligent, older, had more previous arrests and shorter prison sentences and were more likely to be White than nonalcoholic prisoners. The prison adjustment of alcoholics who attended A.A. meetings was better than that of those not attending A.A. and of nonalcoholics
Territoriality and homosexuality in a male prison population
Prison Adjustment of Alcoholic Felons
Alcoholics in a penitentiary were more intelligent, older, had more previous arrests and shorter prison sentences and were more likely to be White than nonalcoholic prisoners. The prison adjustment of alcoholics who attended A.A. meetings was better than that of those not attending A.A. and of nonalcoholics
Territoriality and homosexuality in a male prison population
'Voluntary' Castration
Must a Man Be His Cousin's Keeper
ing to compel one person to donate a portion of his body to Yet recent events in Pittsburgh raised just that question. Robert McFall, a thirty-nine-yearold, unmarried asbestos worker, suffering from a usually fatal aplastic anemia, filed a suit in Judge Flaherty's court seeking an injunction to compel David Shimp, his unwilling cousin, to undergo a bone marrow transplant that doctors claimed was necessary to save McFall's life. The average citize…
The therapeutic misconception
Case Studies
Mrs. X and the Bone Marrow Transplant
The case is presented in which a leukemia patient sought an order from an Iowa district court to compel the University of Iowa Institutional Review Board (IRB) to recontact, specifically on the patient's behalf, a potential bone marrow donor who had refused a general request to participate in the transplant program. Charles Lidz, Alan Meisel, and Loren Roth argue against judicial intervention, primarily on the grounds that a follow-up letter woul…
Psychiatric Treatment and the Romance of the Law
Informed consent in psychiatric research
False Hopes and Best Data
Paul S. Appelbaum, Loren H. Roth, Charles W. Lidz, Paul Benson, William Winslade, False Hopes and Best Data: Consent to Research and the Therapeutic Misconception, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Apr., 1987), pp. 20-24
The promise and peril of involuntary outpatient commitment
The promise and peril of involuntary outpatient commitment
Violence by People Discharged From Acute Psychiatric Inpatient Facilities and by Others in the Same Neighborhoods
BACKGROUND: The public perception that mental disorder is strongly associated with violence drives both legal policy (eg, civil commitment) and social practice (eg, stigma) toward people with mental disorders. This study describes and characterizes the prevalence of community violence in a sample of people discharged from acute psychiatric facilities at 3 sites. At one site, a comparison group of other residents in the same neighborhoods was also…
A classification tree approach to the development of actuarial violence risk assessment tools
Since the 1970s, a wide body of research has suggested that the accuracy of clinical risk assessments of violence might be increased if clinicians used actuarial tools. Despite considerable progress in recent years in the development of such tools for violence risk assessment, they remain primarily research instruments, largely ignored in daily clinical practice. We argue that because most existing actuarial tools are based on a main effects regr…
Rethinking Risk Assessment
The presumed link between mental disorder and violence has been the driving force behind mental health law and policy for centuries. Legislatures, courts, and the public have come to expect that mental health professionals will protect them from violent acts by persons with mental disorders. Yet for three decades research has shown that clinicians’ unaided assessments of “dangerousness” are barely better than chance. Rethinking Risk Assessment: T…
Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Alternative medicine (4 works) · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints (4 works) · Informed consent (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Ethics in medical practice (3 works)