Child and Youth Care Forum, 35(4), August 2006, pp.305-318.
Publisher:
Springer
This article reports on a qualitative study of adolescents living in residential care in Sweden. Six adolescents, three girls and three boys, who were the first to live in a newly opened treatment home, were interviewed about their experiences 2–3 years after they had left the home. Their experiences were in retrospect very different from each other. The results are discussed from the perspectives of individual differences, the special situation in an institution, relationships and gender. It is concluded that in spite of the fact that youth who live in a residential care institution live in the same environment, the individuals perceive it in their own unique ways.
This article reports on a qualitative study of adolescents living in residential care in Sweden. Six adolescents, three girls and three boys, who were the first to live in a newly opened treatment home, were interviewed about their experiences 2–3 years after they had left the home. Their experiences were in retrospect very different from each other. The results are discussed from the perspectives of individual differences, the special situation in an institution, relationships and gender. It is concluded that in spite of the fact that youth who live in a residential care institution live in the same environment, the individuals perceive it in their own unique ways.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, residential child care, staff-user relationships, treatment, therapy and treatment, user views, young people, gender;
Attachment and Human Development, 3(3), December 2001, pp.269-283.
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
This Swedish study examines the current mental representations of early attachment relationships in 24 psychopathic criminal offenders, incarcerated in a forensic psychiatric hospital or a medium-security prison. The results pointed to an extensive over-representation of individuals who were dismissing of attachment and attachment-related experiences no secure individuals, and with the remainder being either unclassifiable or unresolved with regard to severe early abuse/ truama. Discusses the unique discourse of the dismissing individuals and on clinical implications.
This Swedish study examines the current mental representations of early attachment relationships in 24 psychopathic criminal offenders, incarcerated in a forensic psychiatric hospital or a medium-security prison. The results pointed to an extensive over-representation of individuals who were dismissing of attachment and attachment-related experiences no secure individuals, and with the remainder being either unclassifiable or unresolved with regard to severe early abuse/ truama. Discusses the unique discourse of the dismissing individuals and on clinical implications.
Subject terms:
mental health problems, offenders, parent-child relations, personality, psychotherapy, prisons, traumas, therapies, therapy and treatment, violence, attachment, conduct disorders, forensic psychiatry;
British Medical Journal, 5.11.94, 1994, pp.1218-1221.
Publisher:
British Medical Association
Despite legislation to harmonise mental health practice throughout Europe and convergence in systems of training there remains an extraordinary diversity of psychiatric practice in Europe. Approaches to tackling substance misuse vary among nations; statistics on psychiatric morbidity are affected by different approaches to diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders; attitudes towards mental illness show definite international differences. Everywhere, though, mental health care for patients with psychotic illness is a "cinderella service", and there is a general move towards care falling increasingly on the family and the community.
Despite legislation to harmonise mental health practice throughout Europe and convergence in systems of training there remains an extraordinary diversity of psychiatric practice in Europe. Approaches to tackling substance misuse vary among nations; statistics on psychiatric morbidity are affected by different approaches to diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders; attitudes towards mental illness show definite international differences. Everywhere, though, mental health care for patients with psychotic illness is a "cinderella service", and there is a general move towards care falling increasingly on the family and the community.
Subject terms:
law, mental health, mental health problems, mental health services, psychiatry, social care provision, treatment, therapy and treatment, training, attitudes, community care, diagnosis, families;