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Psychiatric morbidity among young offenders in England and Wales
- Authors:
- LADER Deborah, SINGLETON Nicola, MELTZER Howard
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for National Statistics
- Publication year:
- 2000
- Pagination:
- 94p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents information on the mental health of young offenders from a survey of psychiatric morbidity among prisoners aged 16-64 in England an Wales. The survey was carried out between September and December 1997. It was commissioned by the Department of Health. The report brings together the data on prevalence of mental disorders among young offenders from the main report of the survey together with the results of additional analysis of service use, risk factors and social functioning which were previously only available for the prison population as a whole.
Evaluation of mental health awareness training: a case study at HMP High Down
- Authors:
- MUSSELWHITE Charles, WALSH Elizabeth, FRESHWATER Dawn
- Publisher:
- Bournemouth University. Institute of Health and Community Studies
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 41p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bournemouth
Presents a case study of a national project, funded by Prison Health at the Department of Health, which is working to roll out clinical supervision for health care staff in prisons across England and Wales.
Mental health awareness for prison staff
- Authors:
- MUSSELWHITE Charles, et al
- Publisher:
- Bournemouth University. Institute of Health and Community Studies
- Publication year:
- 2004
- Pagination:
- 61p.
- Place of publication:
- Bournemouth
This report outlines the development of mental health awareness training for prison officers. This includes developing a Mental Health Liaison Officer role for staff and inmates.
Modernising prison mental health care
- Authors:
- DUGGAN Sean, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Professional Nurse, 20(8), April 2005, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Approximately 90 percent of prisoners in England and Wales have a mental health problem. This article outlines several initiatives, including health screening on admission and suicide prevention, to improve the care of this population.
Altered memory and affective instability in prisoners assessed for dangerous and severe personality disorder
- Authors:
- KIRKPATRICK Tim, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 190(Supplement 49), May 2007, pp.s20-s26.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Previous studies of borderline personality disorder report neuropsychological impairments in several domains, including memory. No studies have compared memory functioning in high-risk prisoners with borderline personality disorder with similar prisoners with other personality disorders. The aim was to explore mnemonic impairments in prisoners undergoing personality assessment as part of the dangerous and severe personality disorder initiative or detained in a medium secure facility. The authors investigated memory function in 18 prisoners with borderline personality disorder and 18 prisoners with other personality Disorders. Prisoners with borderline personality disorder exhibited a pattern of multi-modal impairments in the immediate and delayed recall of verbal and visual information, with some association with affective instability. These deficits were not associated with the severity of personality disturbance. These data suggest that memory deficits have some specificity in relation to the constituent traits of borderline personality disorder and indicate that neuropsychological assessment may be a source of useful adjunctive information for distinguishing between the cognitive and psychological difficulties of individual prisoners.
Psychopathy and offending behaviour: findings from the national survey of prisoners in England and Wales
- Authors:
- ROBERTS Amanda D. L., COID Jeremy W.
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (The), 18(1), March 2007, pp.23-44.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
There is debate about whether the psychopath's criminal behaviour is a consequence of abnormal personality traits or a symptom of psychopathy. The aim of this study was to examine independent associations between offending behaviour over the lifetime and psychopathy in a representative sample of male and female offenders. A two-stage survey was carried out among prisoners in all prisons in England and Wales. Psychopathy was measured using the PCL-R in the second stage among 497 male and female prisoners. Independent relationships between the four factors of psychopathy and lifetime offences were examined using multiple regression. Two models of association were compared to test the effects of the fourth (antisocial) factor. Factor 1 (interpersonal) was not associated with any category of serious offending behaviour. Affective deficiency (Factor 2) was independently associated with violent and acquisitive offending in men. The contribution of the antisocial factor to associations with total PCL-R scores, together with its strong intercorrelations with Factor 3 (lifestyle), suggest that it is an integral component of the psychopathy construct. The findings also demonstrate the dilemma of colinearity between the third and fourth factors of psychopathy and their relationship with criminal behaviour, especially in men.
Mind games
- Author:
- SMITH Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Care and Health Magazine, 8.03.05, 2005, pp.16-18.
- Publisher:
- Care and Health
In April 2005 the government is to undertake a study into the transfer of prisoners to mental health hospitals. Reports on the growing number of these cases.
The mentally disordered in prison
- Author:
- GROUNDS Adrian
- Journal article citation:
- Prison Service Journal, 81, Winter 1990, pp.29-40.
- Publisher:
- Her Majesty's Prison Service of England and Wales
Looks at the historical background, the current use and effectiveness of the Mental Health Act 1983, and outlines future prospects, particularly in the light of proposed reforms in the NHS and the recent scrutiny of the Prison Medical Service.
‘It doesn't have to be treatable’: Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT) members’ views about Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD)
- Authors:
- TREBILCOCK Julie, WEAVER Tim
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology (The), 23(2), April 2012, pp.244-260.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
High security Dangerous Severe Personality Disorder (DSPD) units in the prison service are controversial. This article, using a review of DSPD patients’ Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT) records and qualitative interviews with MHRT members, explores the outcomes of 69 DSPD patients’ MHRTs and members’ views about DSPD. Patients were from Broadmoor, and Rampton. Most MHRT members identified the high security location of the DSPD units to be more relevant to their decision-making than the label of DSPD. While MHRT members held a range of views about DSPD, and some doubt about the clinical treatability of DSPD patients, nearly all identified that this was a population who were legally treatable under the Mental Health Act 1983.
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.