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Women prisoners
- Author:
- GINN Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 19.01.13, 2013, pp.22-24.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
The number of women in the prison population has trebled over the past 20 years. There is no evidence to show that women are committing more serious offences than before, but the rise is explained by a shift away from non-custodial treatment for relatively minor offences towards short prison sentences. In the fourth article in a series on prison health care the author looks at women's experience of prison; the high risk of self harm and suicide; pregnant women in prisons; and the failure to reduce the number of women prisoners.
The resettlement needs of female prisoners
- Authors:
- KEIL Joanna, SAMELE Chiara
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (The), 20(Supplement 1), April 2009, pp.29-46.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Continuity of care issues are relevant to the prison population in terms of release and resettlement into the community. A sample of 27 female prisoners due for release were interviewed about the care they had received in prison and their plans for release. The interviews particularly focused on mental health problems and any care they might have received for these. Attempts were made to track these prisoners after release from prison, but only eight interviews could be conducted after release. There was no information available for eight of the sample after release; for the remaining 11, some information was gained from family, friends, and agencies who had engaged with them on release. This article highlights three main themes from these interviews: mental health, substance misuse, and accommodation.
Why should I care about gender?
- Author:
- O'HARA Jean
- Journal article citation:
- Advances in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, 2(2), June 2008, pp.9-18.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article looks at the published literature on gender as it affects individual vulnerability and risk, and planning, organisation and delivery of health care, with specific focus on the mental health and learning disabilities, and discusses them in the context of recent government policy and guidance. It calls for urgent gender-specific research to understand the key issues facing men and women with learning disabilities, and a rights-based approach to access to education, health care and a competent and informed workforce.
Understanding our bodies, understanding ourselves: the menstrual cycle, mental health and women with learning disabilities
- Authors:
- DITCHFIELD Hedy, BURNS Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4), October 2004, pp.24-32.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reviews the evidence for vulnerability in women with learning disabilities to a range of physical and mental health problems, with special emphasis on menstruation. Describes a qualitative research project on the experience of learning-disabled women in relation to menstruation, concluding by emphasising the need for services to communicate information on this subject in more sensitive and appropriate ways.
Women with learning disabilities and menstruation
- Author:
- RODGERS Jackie
- Journal article citation:
- Tizard Learning Disability Review, 9(4), October 2004, pp.33-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses the importance of menstruation, the unhappy experiences with it of many women with learning disabilities, arguments that it should be suppressed, menstruation and womanhood, and what can be done and is being done to improve things. Concludes more profound change can only occur through the empowerment of women with learning disabilities through self-advocacy, disability rights and women's movements.
Direct support
- Author:
- LINEHAN Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 9.2.95, 1995, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A scheme has been set up in West Dorset to help offenders with mental health problems. Mendos, the Mentally Disordered Offenders Scheme discovered quite soon after its establishment that women in this situation had been ignored. Looks at a new initiative to provide a service to women.
The physical healthcare experiences of women with mental health problems: status versus stigma
- Authors:
- BIRCH Sarah, LAVENDER Tony, CUPITT Caroline
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 14(1), February 2005, pp.61-72.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
Recent policy and review documents suggest that women have physical health needs, including those specifically related to their life-cycle, which are inadequately met. This study looked at the physical healthcare needs of women with mental health problems.Method: Using the qualitative method of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA), six women were interviewed about their experiences of physical and mental healthcare. The womens' interview data showed that experiences of physical healthcare could be categorized under the themes of being in control, desirable outcome, and emotional nurture, and experiences of mental healthcare under the themes of powerlessness, objectification, lack of knowledge, and feelings of inadequacy and guilt. Women were relatively happy with the way their physical illnesses had been cared for, and in comparison to their experiences of mental healthcare, the treatment for physical illness helped them to feel better about themselves. However those areas of physical healthcare associated with womens' life cycle issues were experienced as negative and stigmatizing, which may have been due to the interactive effect of stigmatizing mental health problems.
Women-only and women-sensitive mental health services: a summary report
- Authors:
- BARNES Marian, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
There has been little progress in the development of women sensitive services over the last ten years and it remains difficult to ensure that this issue achieves priority at a time of substantial change within the health and social care system. The importance of the voluntary sector in providing sensitive and flexible alternative to mainstream services is still evident, as is the insecurity of services within this sector and the consequent danger of looking to voluntary sector provision as an adequate answer to the problem. In spite of an absence of evaluative research there is considerable agreement about what women sensitive services would look like. There are also committed and enthusiastic workers who are looking to the publication of the national strategy for mental health care for women to provide the national lead that can support local developments. Such developments will only be achieved if they are given the level and stability of resources required to deliver sustainable change.
Women-only and women-sensitive mental health services: an expert paper
- Authors:
- BARNES Marain, et al
- Publisher:
- University of Birmingham
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 94p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Birmingham
There has been little progress in the development of women sensitive services over the last ten years and it remains difficult to ensure that this issue achieves priority at a time of substantial change within the health and social care system. The importance of the voluntary sector in providing sensitive and flexible alternative to mainstream services is still evident, as is the insecurity of services within this sector and the consequent danger of looking to voluntary sector provision as an adequate answer to the problem. In spite of an absence of evaluative research there is considerable agreement about what women sensitive services would look like. There are also committed and enthusiastic workers who are looking to the publication of the national strategy for mental health care for women to provide the national lead that can support local developments. Such developments will only be achieved if they are given the level and stability of resources required to deliver sustainable change.
Getting the right start: the national service framework for children, young people and maternity services; emerging findings
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 50p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This NSF includes standards covering both health and social care services, and a key theme of this Emerging Findings document is the importance of integrated working between health and social care to support children who are disabled, who have mental health problems, or who are otherwise in special circumstances. For many children this joined-up working is essential to improving the quality of their lives and future life chances. The objective of this NSF is to improve the standard of services and reduce inequalities in care and support services. It provides a landmark in the development of services for children and young people and a real opportunity to give them, and pregnant women, the best start in life to prepare them for getting the most out of going to school, to deal with the problems which all children face during their childhood and, later, to take their place as active citizens in society.