Mental Health Review, 7(4), December 2002, pp.24-27.
Publisher:
Pier Professional
Argues that security cannot be an end in itself. The history of secure care clearly shows what can happen when the walls dominate. Patients may well be dangerous but hey are not demons. Hospitals must be secure but they are not fortresses. Compassionate caring remains the essence of therapeutic custody.
Argues that security cannot be an end in itself. The history of secure care clearly shows what can happen when the walls dominate. Patients may well be dangerous but hey are not demons. Hospitals must be secure but they are not fortresses. Compassionate caring remains the essence of therapeutic custody.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, mental health services, management, mentally disordered offenders, offenders, prisons, secure hospitals, secure units, severe mental health problems, custodial institutions;
With the assimilation of special hospitals into mental health trusts on the way, the authors argue that patients needs would best be served by smaller hospital with more specialised care.
With the assimilation of special hospitals into mental health trusts on the way, the authors argue that patients needs would best be served by smaller hospital with more specialised care.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, mental health services, mental health trusts, mentally disordered offenders, NHS trusts, offenders, risk, secure hospitals, treatment, therapy and treatment;
Collection of essays by professionals and service users which examines ethnic and cultural issues in forensic care. Explores theoretical issues of power, difference and participation and relates them to examples of current practice and to practical measures for the future improvement of services.
Collection of essays by professionals and service users which examines ethnic and cultural issues in forensic care. Explores theoretical issues of power, difference and participation and relates them to examples of current practice and to practical measures for the future improvement of services.
Subject terms:
hospitals, mental health problems, mental health services, mentally disordered offenders, offenders, patients, racism, Asian people, anti-discriminatory practice, black and minority ethnic people, cultural identity, forensic psychiatry;