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Audit of the referrals to the psychology section of a mentally disordered offenders team
- Authors:
- HARMAN Rachel, DALTON Rita
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 7(2), May 2005, pp.15-21.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This study consists of an exploratory audit of the referrals to applied psychology in a multidisciplinary mentally disordered offenders team. Client characteristics as well as referral characteristics were explored. One of the main results of the audit was that clients referred for outpatient groups (who were not normally known to the team prior to referral) had significantly higher rates of non-attendance and drop-out than clients referred for other reasons. Outpatients in general also had higher rates of non-attendance and drop-out than inpatients. The main conclusion of this study is that applied psychology resources may be best used in the provision of services to clients known to the team and that, as inpatient work may be more producitve, it should perhaps be the priority for psychologists working with this client group.
Client progress in a community team for mentally disordered offenders
- Author:
- DALTON Rita
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 7(1), February 2005, pp.18-22.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Reports on the review of a community team for mentally disordered offenders in a London borough to profile the MDO team's clients, evaluate progress, and examine indicators of reconviction, re-arrest and re-admission to hospital. Provides a profile of the team's client and discusses what might constitute suitable measures of progress for the client group. In view of this, details are provided of reconviction and re-arrest, hospital re-admission, Health of the Nation Outcome (HONOS) scales and the views of clients themselves. Low rates of reconviction and re-arrest were found, and improvements were evidence on all other measures.