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Review of service delivery and organisational research focused on prisoners with mental disorders
- Authors:
- BROOKER Charlie, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (The), 20(Supplement 1), April 2009, pp.102-123.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper reports a structured review of the service development and organisational (SDO) research literature focused on prisoners with mental disorders. A large number of databases were searched, using a combined free-text and thesaurus approach. Papers were included if they had been published since 1983, were written in English, and contained research findings. Commentaries or descriptions of local service innovation were excluded. In all, 103 papers were identified that met all criteria; these were divided into 13 categories (e.g. screening, 18 papers; professional roles, 13 papers). The paper concludes that there is a clear need to consider commissioning SDO research for offenders in England and Wales in a coherent programme.
The link between mental health problems and violence behaviour
- Author:
- GREGORY Nathan
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 6.4.04, 2004, pp.34-36.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Reviews literature on mental illness and violence with the aim of clarifying whether there is a link between the two. Concludes that while higher rates of violence have been found among people with mental illness, most studies have flaws and their results should be viewed with caution. Calls for the development of preventative strategies by providing appropriate support for people with mental health problems.
Ashworth report confirms problems with special hospitals
- Author:
- WARDEN John
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 23.1.99, 1999, p.211.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Reports on the findings of the Fallon inquiry into Ashworth Special Hospital.
Mental health
- Author:
- RYAN Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Research Matters, 1999, pp.6-8.
- Publisher:
- Community Care
This review summarises recent research in two areas: risk factors associated with violence in clients with long term illness and an overview of some recent studies evaluating the efficacy of psychosocial rehabilitation. This latter study is one of the relatively few that focuses specifically on the needs of black users.
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)
Main issues in mental health and race
- Editors:
- NDEGWA David, OLAJIDE Dele
- Publisher:
- Ashgate
- Publication year:
- 2003
- Pagination:
- 264p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Investigating a range of issues surrounding mental health and race, this book brings together analysis in this field from a wide variety of disciplines outside psychiatry. The contributors systematically review the literature in each discipline with relevance to the phenomena observed in the interaction between ethnic minorities and all aspects of psychiatry. Attempts are made to objectively evaluate the strength of evidence behind common opinions and assumptions and to identify current issues and future research needs. Both qualitative and quantitative research approaches and paradigms not traditionally used in this field are explored. The topics covered by this book are of importance, given current concerns about the polarization of views between service providers and black people and the disproportionate and coercive inception and experience of black people within psychiatric systems. Black people are over-represented in every situation in the UK where the mode of entry is compulsory, from prisons to psychiatric hospitals and secure establishments run by the social services.
Using a model to guide data gathering, interpretation, and communication in capital mitigation evaluations
- Authors:
- MARCZYK Geoffrey, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 3(3), 2003, pp.89-103.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
The use of a model can have a direct impact on several areas of forensic mental health assessment, and is important in gathering and interpreting data, reasoning about the results and conclusions, and communicating the results of such an assessment. The following report and accompanying discussion illustrates the application of a forensic model in the context of a defense-initiated capital mitigation evaluation under Pennsylvania State law. The first step in employing a model was to identify the relevant legal standard, which required the forensic clinician to assess character traits, contextual circumstances, extreme mental or emotional disturbance, and mental and cognitive deficits that might have had a direct impact on the defendant's ability to conduct or conform his conduct to the requirements of the law at the time of the alleged offense. In the second part of the model, these clinical characteristics were related to the tasks and functional abilities that are part of the relevant legal question. Finally, using the third step of the model, the forensic clinician assesses the strength of the causal connection between the existence of mental and cognitive deficits and the functional abilities related to the relevant legal question. In addition to improving the overall quality and accuracy of the evaluation, the use of this type of model is consistent with the guidelines and substantive criteria for capital mitigation articulated by the United States Supreme Court. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street Binghamton, NY 13904-1580)
Hospitals or prisons?: fear and trust in high security care
- Author:
- KAYE Charles
- Journal article citation:
- 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.
The differences in perceived burdens between forensic and non-forensic caregivers of individuals suffering from schizophrenia
- Authors:
- McINNES Doug L., WATSON Jim P.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Mental Health, 11(4), August 2002, pp.375-388.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- London
This article examines the burdens experienced by caregivers of people with schizophrenia. In-depth interviews were undertaken with 107 caregivers (79 caregivers of clients with a forensic history and 28 caring for non-offenders) and categorised into burden dimensions using content analysis. The severity of the burdens faced was also recorded. The types of burden experienced by the two groups were examined. Results indicated that the two groups described a similar number of burdens. However, the forensic caregivers were more likely to describe burdens relating to violent incidents and annoyance, particularly towards services. In addition, they were more likely to document more severe burdens.
National standards for the provision of social care services in the high security hospitals
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 50p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
These service standards address the responsibilities and requirements of all the organisations and individuals who contribute to the provision of quality social care in the three high security hospitals for people with mental health problems: Ashworth, Broadmoor and Rampton. The document should be read alongside the 'Review of social work in the high security hospitals' (the Lewis report). The standards are divided into six free standing sections, each addressing the responsibilities and requirements of one organisation (the Hospital Social Care Service, the Hospital itself, the local council providing and managing the social care service, the local councils with responsibilities for patients, the local councils in whose areas the hospitals are situated and the Probation Service).