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First steps to work: a study at Broadmoor Hospital
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 5p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Experience of real work can help people in Broadmoor to get back their self-esteem and prepare for life in the community. First Steps to Work shows that patients at the special hospital gained in skills and confidence after participating in a business run for and by patients and supported by the First Step Trust. The study concludes that people with mental health problems in even the most secure hospitals and prisons should have the opportunity to do real work. It not only helps them to get ready for life in the community but assists in their recovery from mental ill health by boosting their self-esteem and increases their ability to take responsibility for themselves and others and to work as a member of a team.
National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness. Annual report: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. October 2017
- Author:
- NATIONAL CONFIDENTIAL INQUIRY INTO SUICIDE AND HOMICIDE BY PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
- Publisher:
- University of Manchester
- Publication year:
- 2017
- Pagination:
- 132
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Presents data and analysis on suicide, homicides and sudden unexplained deaths in the UK between 2005 and 2015, focusing on mental health. As well as providing data for the individual countries of the UK, it also provides UK-wide data for suicide in people with eating disorders, autism spectrum disorders, people living with dementia, carers and members of the armed forces. The report also makes recommendations for clinical practice to improve safety in mental health care. Key findings show that there were 1,538 patient suicides in the UK in 2015. Northern Ireland has the highest general population suicide rate, while the rates in the other countries have fallen. There have also been downward trends in the number of suicides by patients recently discharged from hospital in England and Scotland; and suicide by mental health in-patients. Messages to improve mental health care include a renewed emphasis on suicide prevention on in-patient wards; for services to build on the recent fall in suicide following discharge from in-patient care; and for a greater focus on alcohol and drug misuse as a key component of risk management in mental health care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Therapeutic relationships with offenders: an introduction to the psychodynamics of forensic mental health nursing
- Editors:
- AIYEGBUSI Anne, CLARKE-MOORE Jennifer, (eds.)
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 240p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This collection of papers aims to clarify interpersonal and emotional needs that underpin forensic patients’ presentations within the clinical environment and to explore the challenge of establishing and maintaining therapeutic relationships with offenders, in a way that is accessible to nurses. It covers the value of integrating a psychodynamic perspective into forensic mental health nursing practice, managing hate, forensic systems and organisational dynamics, organisational defences against anxiety, the challenge of providing safe therapeutic care especially to patients who are members of minority groups, paranoid-schizoid functioning within a forensic intensive care ward, reflective practice in staff support groups in forensic secure settings, containment and the structured day, the threat to psychic survival faced by both nurses and patients in forensic settings, working with men with personality disorder in a high secure setting, structural elements of the therapeutic community, the nursing workforce and the mental health needs of women patients detained in secure settings, caring for women within secure mental health services, a secure model of nursing care for women, forensic mental health nursing from the user and nurse perspective, and working as a forensic community mental health nurse within a youth offending team.
Out of sight, out of mind: the state of mental healthcare in prison
- Authors:
- BROOKER Charlie, ULLMANN Ben
- Publisher:
- Policy Exchange
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 44p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The prison population is at its highest ever. Of the 82,000 prisoners in England and Wales it is estimated that nine out of ten have one or more mental health disorders. Coverage includes public attitudes to offenders with mental illness, the offender mental healthcare; assessment of prison mental healthcare; and spending, staff and savings. It is argued that the findings of Lord Ramsbotham's 1996 report, which was heavily critical of prison healthcare services, are as relevant today as when they 12 years ago.
A theoretical framework for goal-directed care within the prison system
- Authors:
- BULTEN Erik, VISSERS Annelies, OEI Karel
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 13(3), September 2008, pp.40-50.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Mental health care in prisons involves many stakeholders. As a consequence, the goals involved are divergent but there is no sound theoretical framework that accounts for the complexity of care in prisons. This paper considers a broad theory and its conceptual framework that differentiates between prisoners with emotional suffering and those without, the need for care from an objective point of view as opposed to a subjective one, and the need for care related to mental health problems versus care related to limiting recidivism. The article focuses on the situation in the Netherlands, and the actual care and treatment in a Dutch prison are described.
Legal rights and mental health: the Mind manual
- Editors:
- SULEK Joanna, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- MIND
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 289p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This training manual focuses on: community care entitlement legislation, case law and relevant guidance; negligence and complaints procedures; discrimination and mental health: the survivor’s perspective; incapacity and decision making voluntary and involuntary admission – the Code of Practice ; mentally disordered offenders; consent to treatment and treatment without consent ; routes out of hospital, including Mental Health Review Tribunals' and the Human Rights Act.
From strength to strength: report on the first two years of the Mental Health Act Commission service user involvement strategy
- Author:
- SIBLEY Rose
- Publisher:
- Stationery Office
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 22p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Mental Health Act Commission has adopted the mission statement, 'safeguarding the interests of all people detained under the Mental Health Act'. The Commission's remit is to keep under review the operation of the Mental Health Act 1983 as it relates to detained patients, and to meet with and interview detained patients in private. In furtherance of this remit, the Commission visits mental health service providers regularly in order to check the legality of detention. In addition to the visiting programme, the Commission provides important safeguards to patients who lack capacity or refuse consent to treatment, through the Second Opinion Appointed Doctor Service. In all its work the Commission places an emphasis on equality and human rights.