title: Psychosocial functioning of the people with delusional disorders under forensic psychiatric observation in the ward of forensic psychiatry in 1998-2002.
abstract: In the literature on the subject frequency and kind of deeds committed by people with mental illness in relation to individual clinical diagnoses are analyzed mainly, whereas little attention is paid to the issue of their psychosocial functioning. Intellectual functioning of the people manifesting delusional disorders in the course of committing attributed deeds, was on an average level. The patients' social functioning was on a low level.
authors.affiliation: Forensic Psychiatry Ward and Clinic of Psychiatry, Interfaculty Chair and Department of Public Health, Skubiszewski Medical University of Lublin.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Makara-Studzińska
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Król
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rudnicka-Drozak
authors.forename: Teresa Bernadetta
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Kulik
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D017507:Comoros; D003415:Crime / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D003702:Delusions / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D004282:Documentation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007298:Insanity Defense; D008297:Male; D008501:Medical Records, Problem-Oriented; D008875:Middle Aged; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012951:Socialization