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Risk and rehabilitation: management and treatment of substance misuse and mental health problems in the criminal justice system
- Authors:
- PYCROFT Aaron, CLIFT Suzie
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 224p.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
Drug and alcohol misuse and mental health problems constitute a significant proportion of the work carried out in the criminal justice system. Approaches to these often intractable problems have seen the rise of a dominant risk paradigm concerned with public protection and the use of coercion through court orders to access treatment. This book considers notions of risk and rehabilitation in detail within the practice of those court orders, whilst contextualising them within a wider comparative literature and research base. The efficacy of these approaches, practice issues and innovations including, for example, therapeutic jurisprudence are analysed. The book also includes discussions of the implications for partnership working and the importance of reconfiguring the nature of rehabilitative relationships.
Impacts of the job retention and rehabilitation pilot
- Authors:
- PURDON Susan, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 172p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot (JRRP) was undertaken to test out boosting the usual help for those off work due to sickness and ill health, to return to and retain their job. The report presents information about the experience of participating in the trial, and the second report provides a quantitative assessment of the impacts of the trial on return-to-work rates, health, and other measures. Key findings of the impact assessment were that this particular method of recruiting and assisting people to retain employment was not effective, the interventions had no significant impact on the group of people recruited into the trial across key return-to-work measures. Similar rates of return to work were observed in the intervention groups as in the control group. There were however some minor impacts, both positive and negative, on certain subgroups: specifically, improved return-to-work rates for those off work because of an injury; and lower return-to-work rates for those with mental health issues.
Evidence-based rehabilitation in forensic psychiatry
- Authors:
- LINDQVIST Per, SKIPWORTH Jeremy
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 176, April 2000, pp.320-323.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
The extent to which forensic psychiatric rehabilitation alters an individual's level of risk is unclear. This article highlights some essential features of a forensic psychiatric rehabilitation system, and discusses risk assessment in this context to create a conceptual framework for risk research and practice. Results suggest that current risk research has limited application to rehabilitation. Future research aimed at analysing forensic psychiatric rehabilitation will be hampered by the complexity of the treatment systems and the number of methodological issues relevant to this type of research.
Forensic nursing and mental disorder in clinical practice
- Editors:
- McCLELLAND Norman, HUMPHREYS Martin, CONLON Lorraine, HILLIS Tony
- Publisher:
- Butterworth-Heinemann
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 157p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Oxford
Follows the continuum of care for patients who suffer from mental disorders, reflecting current forensic mental health nursing care practice. Reaside Clinic medium secure unit in the West Midlands is used as a focus, showing multi-disciplinary care from initial assessment, through patient stay, to discharge into the community. Contents include: Referral to admission; assessment; treatment approaches; interprofessional working; vocational rehabilitation; dealing with hostility; suicide; legal aspects; research and training; aftercare; diversion from custody; future challenges.
Forensic mental health: issues in practice
- Editors:
- DALE Colin, THOMPSON Tony, WOODS Phil
- Publisher:
- Bailliere Tindall
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 296p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
In recent years forensic mental health has come under intense scrutiny, particularly with the emergence of specialist qualifications in this area, which has lead to practitioners examining and developing their practice. One of the main problems though has been with publications in this area. Many of them have looked at the theoretical background and individual client problems in forensic mental health but not effective practice as a whole. This book aims to address these issues by looking at effective practice and development as a whole. It aims to provide clear guidance, founded in empirical forensic application, on how to tackle the key issues in practice, particularly in relation to the care and management of diverse client populations, and also stressing the importance of multi-disciplinary teamwork.