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Social division and difference: black and ethnic minorities
- Author:
- NDEGWA David
- Publisher:
- NHS National Programme on Forensic Mental Health Research and Development
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 28p.
- Place of publication:
- Liverpool
The issues discussed include: the over-representation of ethnic minorities in those receiving coercive interventions -compulsory admission, seclusion control and restraint, medication, depot neuroleptic medication and poly-pharmacy (usually against their will), restriction orders, and placement in locked ward and secure environments; over-diagnosis of schizophrenia to the exclusion of all other psychiatric diagnoses, such as affective illnesses, neurosis and personality disorder; failure of primary care filters to identify ethnic minority people with psychological morbidity, manage their presenting problems, and retain them within primary care, leading to apparent failures of secondary care filters and processing into tertiary services; and absence of dialogue between ethnic minority service users and current psychiatric /medical services.
Forensic personality disorder in a MSU: lessons learnt after two years
- Authors:
- CLARKE Amory, NDEGWA David
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 8(4), December 2006, pp.29-33.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
For the last two years, the Forensic Mental Health Service at South London and Maudsley NHS has been one of the pilot sites funded by the DSPD programme. In this article the authors report on one segment of the Personality Disorder Service. As of December 2006, the service will have been operating for two years. It consists of a 15-bed medium secure inpatient service, a community team and two hostels. The authors begin by briefly describing the Violence Reduction Programme model used and the theoretical unpinning of the services. They go on to report on the lessons they have learned.
Forensic psychiatry, race and culture
- Authors:
- FERNANDO Suman, NDEGWA David, WILSON Melba
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1998
- Pagination:
- 304p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Explores why forensic psychiatry services are not serving the multi-ethnic societies of Britain and the United States as they should. Discusses the concepts, theories and ideologies upon which forensic psychiatry is founded and explains why current problems are in part the result of a historic linking of race, schizophrenia and criminality in the minds of Western Europeans. Presents a survey of current clinical research into issues of race and forensic psychiatry and argues that the apparent contradictions in research findings and inquiry reports impact negatively on clinical practice. Also takes a detailed look at recent social policy on mental health, race and criminal justice and the way in which this influences and is influenced by public attitudes and pressures.