Head Injuries and Impulsivity: Prevalence and Psychological Consequences, Slides of Human Resource Management

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Bar Beach, Newcastle, Australia

` Definitions and Background

` Hunter Forensic Head Injury Project

◦ New Study 1

` Offending and impulsivity

◦ New Study 2

‘an occurrence of injury to the head (arising from blunt or penetrating trauma or from acceleration–deceleration forces) that is associated with symptoms or signs attributable to the injury: decreased level of consciousness, amnesia, other neurological or neuropsychological abnormalities, skull fracture, diagnosed intracranial lesions—or death’ (2006)

` ‘a predisposition toward rapid, unplanned reactions to internal or external stimuli without regard to the negative consequences of these reactions to the impulsive individual or to others’ Moeller, Barrett, Dougherty, Schmitz, & Swann, 2001

` Validated questionnaires include the Barrett Impulsivity Scale (BIS11)

USA studies 87% (Slaughter et al. 2003) New Zealand 86% (Barnfield and Leathem 1998)