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;
The three sections of this book describe: the social, administrative and legal contexts in which care is provided; the clinical aspects; and finally, the interactions between different aspects of psychiatric services and the relationships with other agencies. It also discusses the tension created by the need to serve the diverse goals of improving health and the protection of the public.
The three sections of this book describe: the social, administrative and legal contexts in which care is provided; the clinical aspects; and finally, the interactions between different aspects of psychiatric services and the relationships with other agencies. It also discusses the tension created by the need to serve the diverse goals of improving health and the protection of the public.
Subject terms:
law, mental health problems, management, mentally disordered offenders, psychiatric social work, psychiatry, rights, risk, secure hospitals, violence, community care, community mental health teams, crime;
The last few years have seen increasing attention given to cases where men, women and children have suffered serious harm from offenders who are known to have done similar harm on previous occasions. Examines how the courts, Parole Boards, and mental health tribunals and probation services deal with violent of sexual offenders who are regarded as 'dangerous'. Articles cover: ethical and other problems; violence and mental disorder; when violence is the norm; sexual molesters; bailing and sentencing the dangerous; psychiatric inpatient violence; the management and discharge of violent patients; parole and the dangerous offender; supervising the dangerous in the community.
The last few years have seen increasing attention given to cases where men, women and children have suffered serious harm from offenders who are known to have done similar harm on previous occasions. Examines how the courts, Parole Boards, and mental health tribunals and probation services deal with violent of sexual offenders who are regarded as 'dangerous'. Articles cover: ethical and other problems; violence and mental disorder; when violence is the norm; sexual molesters; bailing and sentencing the dangerous; psychiatric inpatient violence; the management and discharge of violent patients; parole and the dangerous offender; supervising the dangerous in the community.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, mental health services, management, mentally disordered offenders, offenders, probation service, sentences, severe mental health problems, social care provision, supervision, violence, conduct disorders, dangerous offenders, ethics;
Includes papers on: mental disorder, social order and underlying themes in crime management; public inquiries in mental health with particular reference to the Blackwood case at Broadmoor and the patient complaints of Ashworth hospital; the police and mentally disordered people in the community; diverting mentally disordered offenders from custody; developing understanding for social work with mentally disordered people; a probation case study of multi agency risk management of mentally disordered sex offenders; the Parole Board and the mentally disordered offender; the uncertain role of Mental Health Review Tribunals in the management of people with mental health problems; inquiries after homicide; and some conclusions on rights, risks and mentally disordered offenders.
Includes papers on: mental disorder, social order and underlying themes in crime management; public inquiries in mental health with particular reference to the Blackwood case at Broadmoor and the patient complaints of Ashworth hospital; the police and mentally disordered people in the community; diverting mentally disordered offenders from custody; developing understanding for social work with mentally disordered people; a probation case study of multi agency risk management of mentally disordered sex offenders; the Parole Board and the mentally disordered offender; the uncertain role of Mental Health Review Tribunals in the management of people with mental health problems; inquiries after homicide; and some conclusions on rights, risks and mentally disordered offenders.
Subject terms:
licence, mental health problems, management, mentally disordered offenders, multidisciplinary services, homicide, police, probation, public inquiries, rights, risk, risk management, secure hospitals, sex offenders, social work methods, crime, diversion;