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Asylum seekers
- Author:
- ALLEN Chris
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 26.3.97, 1997, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Asks how Broadmoor compares with less secure environments. The author, has spent time in various who secure units, tells it from the clients perspective.
Real lives
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Viewpoint, 22, October 1997, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Mencap/Gateway
Describes life inside Rampton Hospital which is the main secure unit for people with learning disabilities.
Quality outcomes at Chestnut Drive
- Authors:
- THOMAS Derek, RUCKER Lyn, RIMMER Melanie
- Publisher:
- National Development Team
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- Manchester
Looks at service provision in a residential unit for people with learning difficulties who have committed offences and for people with severe challenging behaviour. Examines: policy issues; service design; quality safeguards already in place; outcomes; safeguards; and implications and recommendations arising from the report.
Ward atmosphere on a medium secure long-stay ward
- Author:
- KIRBY Stephen
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 8(2), September 1997, pp.336-347.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Focuses on the patients and staff within a newly developed long-stay/rehabilitation ward of a medium secure unit (MSU) for mentally disordered offenders. The aims were: to gain the opinions of both groups with regard to their ward environment, to test for differences between the groups and to determine the degree of perceived therapeutic care. The ward was compared with a pre-discharge ward. Data were obtained through self-report using a sample of 13 patients and 16 staff. Limited differences were recorded on both wards and on global comparisons. No patient characteristics were found to be significant when they were compared with the ward atmosphere results.
Developments in the use of regional secure unit beds over a 12-year period
- Authors:
- MOHAN Damian, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 8(2), September 1997, pp.321-335.
- Publisher:
- Routledge
Reviews all admissions to the regional secure unit in the North West Thames Region from the inception of the Regional Forensic Psychiatry Service in November 1983 until October 1995. Age, sex, ethnic grouping, clinical diagnosis, admission source, rates of demand from different parts of the region, admission duration and discharge location remained constant. The type and the severity of offences committed by those admitted have changed, with recent admissions having committed more serious and predominantly more violent and sexual offences than those admitted in earlier years. The implications of these findings for the future of forensic services are: (1) that the demand for medium secure beds is proportionately much greater in the more urban parts of the region: this in turn has implications for funding; (2) that there is a considerable unmet need for long-term medium secure accommodation.
The future of Britain's high security hospitals
- Author:
- MURPHY Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- British Medical Journal, 3.5.97, 1997, pp.1292-1293.
- Publisher:
- British Medical Association
Looks at the future of high security hospitals now that most judges impose a restriction order are cared for in regional secure units, general NHS psychiatric inpatient acute units, and independent sector hospitals. Asks whether these troubled hospitals have a role in the future of forensic mental health care and whether they can become clinically excellent.
Sentenced to care?
- Author:
- STRONG Susannah
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 14.1.98, 1997, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Evidence to the Ashworth Hospital inquiry from staff suggests that nurses lack the basic education to deal with patients with personality disorders. Discusses the findings of the report and asks whether these patients are treatable at all and whether more staff training would lead to genuine therapeutic care.
Proximal antecedents of eloping and reoffending among supervised mentally disordered offenders
- Authors:
- QUINSEY Vernon, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 12(6), December 1997, pp.794-813.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Discusses research comparing mentally disordered male offenders who had eloped from hospital or reoffended while under supervision with male offenders who had done neither. Results found that seven dynamic variables differentiated elopers/reoffenders from other patients. These predictors fell into two main groups, those involving noncompliance with supervision and antisocial attitudes and those pertaining to emotional dysphoria and psychiatric symptoms. Also found that violent reoffenders were more likely to be personality disordered, and elopers were more likely to be psychotic.
Turn down the heat
- Authors:
- ROGERS Paul, GRONOW Tina
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 22.10.97, 1997, pp.26-29.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The relationship between forensic mental health nurses and their patients is crucial. Often one of the reasons for clients coming into contact with forensic mental health services is poor anger control. The authors suggest an innovative approach to anger management in a medium secure unit.
Standards used by the Social Services Inspectorate: volume 5; disability and mental health services
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department of Health. Social Services Inspectorate
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 108p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Contains standards and criteria for the inspection of: services for people who misuse alcohol and drugs; services for people with HIV/AIDS; the care programme approach; special hospitals; medium secure units; services to deaf and hard of hearing people; community services for disabled people; and services for disabled young people.