Must be 300 words or more.

For this week's discussion posting, please read Reading #23 in your text, Silver's (2002), "Mental Disorder and Violent Victimization: The Mediating Role of Involvement in Conflicted Social Relationships," and reflect on it. Here are some questions that you will want to discuss in your post:

• Discuss the reasons that mentally disordered individuals are likely to be involved in conflicted social relationships and how this likelihood can be reduced.
• What are some alternate explanations for why persons with mental disorders are victimized?

Link of the article: https://onlinelibrary-wiley-com.portal.lib.fit.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2002.tb00954.x