TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1985//
TI  - Fire-setting behavior in the histories of a state hospital population
JO  - American journal of psychiatry
A1  - Geller, Jeffrey L.
A1  - Bertsch, G.
SP  - 464
EP  - 468
VL  - 142
IS  - 4
N2  - Review of the records of 191 nongeriatric state hospital inpatients showed that 50 (26%) of the patients had engaged in some form of fire-setting behavior; half of this group had engaged in a single episode. As a group, persons who had engaged in fire-setting behavior were significantly more likely to have a history of nonlethal self-injurious behavior and had a significantly greater number of admissions to the state hospital. The data suggest that fire setting by any patient cannot be accurately predicted and that fire-setting behavior may be an example of destructive operant behavior.<p /> <p>Language: en</p> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-953X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -