...Søren Holst; Dorte Lystrup; John L. Taylor Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gather epidemiologicalinformation concerning firesetters with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Denmark to identify the assessment and treatment needs of this population and inform further research in this area...

..., a brief review indicates that there is increasing evidence in the literature highlighting the higher rates of psychiatric mental health disorders in firesetters, the most common being schizophrenia, mood disorders (such as anxiety and depression), personality disorders, alcohol abuse and intellectual...