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  • Chapter 10 - Fire-Setting and Arson

  • Edited by Roland Dix, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester, Stephen Dye, Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, Ipswich, Stephen M. Pereira, Keats House, London
  • Book:
    Psychiatric Intensive Care
    Published online:
    15 March 2024
    Print publication:
    28 March 2024, pp 124-138

  • Summary

    This chapter defines the terminological differences between the terms ‘fire-setting’, ‘arson’ and ‘pyromania’, including their place in current diagnostic manuals. An epidemiological perspective on fire-setting in those with mental disorder as well as classification systems and theories of fire-setting with prevailing conceptual models of fire-setting and mental disorder is described. Current approaches in the risk assessment of fire-setting and psychological and pharmacological interventions in fire-setting are discussed. Finally, a care pathway to guide clinical and risk assessment of the patient with fire-setting as a feature of their behaviour or history is suggested.