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Taborda,
J. G. V., Bertolote, J. M., Cardoso, R. G., & Blank,
P. (1999). The impact of primary mental health care
in a prison system in Brazil. Canadian Journal of
Psychiatry, 44(2), 180-182. Retrieved December 12,
2002, from Academic Search Premier database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=1898867&db=aph
- Presents
information on a study which analyzed the impact
of a psychiatric service in a prison general
hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil that refers prisoners
with mental disorders to a separate forensic
psychiatric hospital. Information on the general
hospital and the prisoners; Methodology of the study;
Results and discussions on the study; Clinical implications
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Abbott,
P. (2002). Reconfiguration of the high-security hospitals:
Some lessons from the mental hospital retraction and
reprovision programme in the United Kingdom, 1960-2000.
Journal of Forensic Psychiatry, 13(1), 107-122.
Retrieved December 20, 2002, from
Academic Search Premier datbase:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6726245&db=aph
- The
high-security hospitals of England and Wales are
entering a phase of major retraction, with local
security services embarking upon the reprovision
of services for patients with longer-term needs
who do not require high security. The large area
mental hospitals underwent similar changes and the
lessons that may be learnt from this process are
relevant to proposed changes in forensic
services. These lessons include: (1) the risk of
over-optimistic predictions concerning the time-scale
and resources required for major bed reduction;
(2) the problems associated with 'creaming off',
with the risk of increasing acuity in the residual
inpatient population accompanied by deterioration
in the quality of the retracting services; (3) the
risk of 'silting up' in the reprovided services
in the absence of an appropriate community infrastructure;
and (4) the importance of quality of life for longer-stay
secure inpatients. This paper urges caution in view
of the potentially serious clinical and organizational
risks associated with these major changes in forensic
services
Fioritti, A.., Melega, V., Ferriani, E., Rucci, P.,
Scaramelli, A. R., Venco, C., & Santarini, F.
(2001). Crime and mental illness: An investigation
of three Italian forensic hospitals. Journal of
Forensic Psychiatry, 12(1), 36-51. Retrieved December
20, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=4422987&db=aph
- Maximum-security
forensic hospitals, or Ospedali Psichiatrici
Giudiziari (OPGs), are the only facilities in Italy
providing care and custody for mentally ill offenders.
This article aims to describe clinical, criminological
and psychosocial features of their population. The
method was an assessment of 118 patients admitted
to three forensic hospitals and a
matched control group from community non-forensic
services. Of the subjects, 72% had a diagnosis of
non-affective psychosis, and 75.2% had committed
serious crimes against other people; 54% of these
crimes were homicide or attempted homicide. At the
time of committing the index crime, 60% were being
treated by a community service, and 68.9% had been
compulsorily admitted previously. OPG inmates more
frequently had a history of substance abuse, had
committed more crimes and had lower social disability
than controls. The needs and problems of this population
seem quite specific and often fall beyond the scope
of ordinary psychiatric services. The project was
funded by the Regione EmiliaRomagna and by the Istituto
Superiore di Sanità
Polczyk-Przybyla, M. & Gournay, K. (1999). Psychiatric
nursing in prison: The state of the art? Journal
of Advanced Nursing, 30(4), 893-900. Retrieved
December 12, 2002, from Academic Search:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=5866941&db=aph
- This
paper outlines the development of British psychiatric
services in prisons. It then describes the HCC in
Her Majesty's prison (HMP) Belmarsh and reports
on recent radical changes in the management structure
of this service
- Psychiatric
nursing in prisons has received criticism
from within and outside the profession in recent
years. In England and Wales this amongst other issues
has prompted a review of forensic health care by
the United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing,
Midwifery & Health Visiting (UKCC). The status
of forensic psychiatric nursing as
a specialty has also been disputed in the literature
and the role of nurses working in this field is
seen by some to be more about social control than
caring. These arguments are set in the present situation
of increasing numbers of mentally ill individuals
in the prison system and a crisis in the availability
of beds in secure units, a situation that is paralleled
throughout the western world. The standard expected
of health care services in prisons is equivalence
with the service the public receives from the National
Health Service (NHS). The number of prisoners needing
transfer to hospital has increased during the last
decade, resulting in competition for a limited number
of suitable beds. The effect on health care centres
(HCCs) in English prisons is that they now must
provide long-term care for seriously mentally ill
prisoners. This paper outlines the development of
British psychiatric services in prisons. It then
describes the HCC in Her Majesty's prison (HMP)
Belmarsh and reports on recent radical changes in
the management structure of this service. The aim
of these changes is to produce a clinical environment
in which psychiatric nurses can deliver high quality
care in an area beset with difficulties for clinicians
and managers and to further progress towards the
goal of equivalence. These advances have been achieved
through a shift of emphasis in management structure
that increases the number of clinical posts and
minimizes administrative and security-based responsibilities
held by clinical grades. We conclude that although
external contracts are necessary, much can be achieved
through internal review and changes in policies
(Polczyk-Przybyla,& Gournay, 1999, 893).
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Databases
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sleuth the 'University
of Calgary/ Library/ Article Indexes':
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- forensic
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- forensic
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The
'recommended only' readings for this unit are the following:
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Rask, M.,
& Hallberg, I. R. (1999). Moral psychiatry: Justice
in the modern world, in Hebraic civilisation and in
psychiatric practice, Part 3. Mental Health, Religion
& Culture, 2(2), 135-143. Retrieved December
12, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=6673201&db=aph
- In the
earlier parts of this monograph, the author discussed
and illustrated the principles of applying the principles
of justice in psychiatric practice. The outcomes
of his attempts, and their implications were described.
Here the author describes attempts to apply justice
in other contexts, and discusses the role of justice
in the legal system and in medico-legal psychiatry,
again with illustrations.
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Evans, N.
(2000). Developing forensic nursing. Nursing Management,
6(10), 14-17. Retrieved July 2, 2002 from ProQuest
database.
- Note
- Two years into the job, Nicola Evans describes
how her lecturer practitioner post in forensic nursing
is working out. A LECTURER practitioner post was
created between the South Wales Forensic Psychiatric
Service, at Caswell Clinic and the School of Care
Sciences at the University of Glamorgan.
Kurtz.
A. (2002). A psychoanalytic view of two forensic mental
health services. Criminal Behaviour & Mental
Health, Supplement, 12(2), S68-80. Retrieved December
20, 2002, from Academic Search Premier database:
http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=8588411&db=aph
- RSU
and community Forensic Mental Services
Mason,
T. (1999). The psychiatric "supermax"? Long-term,
high-security psychiatric services. International
Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 22(2), 155-166.
Mercer,
D., Mason, T., & Richman, J. (1999). Good &
evil in the crusade of care: Social constructions
of mental disorders. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing
& Mental Health Services, 37(9) 13- 17. Retrieved
July 2, 2002 from ProQuest database.
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- From
their inception, the design and organization of
these special hospitals paralleled the centralized
administration of the penal system as a governmental
responsibility. Despite frequent reform and managerial
changes, this trend has remained a feature of their
development until recent times. It is only within
the present decade that large-scale restructuring
has attempted to incorporate high-security care
within the regionalized National Health Service
(NHS) provision (Mercer, Mason & Richman, 1999).
Morrison,
P. & Burnard, P. (1997). Nurses' and patients'
perceptions of the social climate in a forensic unit
in Wales. International Journal of Offender Therapy
& Comparative
Criminology, 4(1), 65-78. Retrieved December 20, 2002,
from Academic Search Premier database: http://search.epnet.com/direct.asp?an=9706095555&db=aph
- Explores
the social climate of a newly established forensic
unit in Wales using the short form of the Correctional
Institute Environmental Scale (CIES). Views of patients
and nursing staff on hospital social climate;
Factors that influence the social climate of a hospital
ward; Nine subscales of CIES important in correctional
treatment environment.
Richman,
J., & Mercer, D. (2002). Nurse managers and external
consultants at Ashworth Mental Health Nursing,
21(4), 16-20. Retrieved July 1, 2002, from ProQuest
database.
- Working
in a 'special' - one of the three special high security
hospitals - is demanding. The institution's operation
is likely to face public, political and media pressure.
Joel Richman and Dave Mercer in the first part of
a two part article describe the developments of
the ward manager role at Ashworth in the wake of
the BlomCooper inquiry.
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Additional
references for this unit can be found in 'forensic
references'
of the forensic sourcebooks.
- Sleuth
'forensic reference' database for:
- forensic
- psychiatric - systems
- forensic
- psychiatric - services
- forensic
- mental health care - systems
- forensic
- mental health care - services
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The
required websites to sleuth for this unit are the following:
Australia
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Resources
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Forensicare.
(2002). Forensicare Institute of Mental Health in Melbourne,
Australia. Retrieved May 20, 2002 from: http://www.forensicare.vic.gov.au/
Canada
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Resources
(Web)
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Correctional
Service Canada (2002). Regions. Retrieved May 20, 2002 from:
http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/region/regions_e.shtml
- Note the
5 regions of Canada where there are Forensic Psychiatric
Services.
The Clarke Institute
of Psychiatry (2002). The Clark Institute of Psychiatry,
Toronto, Ontario. Retrieved May 20, 2002 from: http://www.keithn.com/clarke/index.html
- Note the
history of this historical site.
International
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United Kingdom
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United States
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additional websites on this unit, sleuth 'forensic
websites' in the forensic sourcebooks.
- forensic -
psychiatric - systems
- forensic
- psychiatric - services
- forensic
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B - Forensic Psychiatry > Section B.3.0. Forensic Systems/Services
> Unit.B.3.2. Forensic Psychiatric Mental Health Services
