Main description:

In any society a small proportion of people with mental disorder present with behaviour that transgresses norms and violates the rights of others. Yet these people are often vulnerable themselves to violence, abuse or exploitation by others, or may be at risk of neglect or self-harm. There has been a growing realisation that both protection of the public and the personal recovery of these patients must be championed by progressive, specialist clinicians. This book brings together a wealth of wide-ranging views and evidence from diverse perspectives, including academic expertise and viewpoints from clinicians and patients, on how to manage risk in secure care. It covers the full spectrum of people with mental disorder who require secure care across boundaries of age, diagnosis and gender. Written by experienced clinicians and mental health professionals, the book is invaluable to multidisciplinary mental health teams and criminal justice services. General and forensic psychiatrists, service managers and hospital and community psychiatric nurses will find this thorough handbook an essential resource in their daily work.

Contents:

List of tables, boxes and figures; List of contributors; Preface; 1. The evolution of secure and forensic mental healthcare Philip Sugarman and Geoffrey Dickins; 2. Mental disorder and offending Nuwan Galappathie; 3. Clinical risk assessment in secure care Ashimesh Roychowdhury, Muthusamy Natarajan, Laura O'Shea and Geoffrey Dickins; 4. Risk management in secure care Geoffrey Dickins, Ashimesh Roychowdhury and Muthusamy Natarajan; 5. Recovery in secure environments Shawn Mitchell and Ian Callaghan; 6. Personality disorder Piyal Sen and Mark Morris; 7. Women's mental health, aggression and offending Katina Anagnostakis; 8. Offenders with intellectual disability in secure services and the criminal justice system Eddie Chaplin and Jane McCarthy; 9. Secure mental healthcare for young people Enys Delmage and Ernest Gralton; 10. Secure care for people with autism spectrum disorder Jane Radley and Huw Thomas; 11. Acquired brain injury, trauma and aggression Nick Alderman; 12. Managing aggression and violence in older people Graeme A. Yorston; 13. Firesetting in secure settings: theory, treatment and management Theresa Gannon, Nichola Tyler and Geoffrey Dickins; 14. Specialist psychological treatment programmes in secure mental healthcare Clive Long and John Shine; 15. Nursing in secure mental healthcare settings Geoffrey Dickins; 16. Prescribing for specialist populations Camilla Haw; 17. Human rights in secure psychiatric care Catherine Penny and Tim Exworthy; 18. Quality assurance and clinical audit in secure psychiatric care Fiona Mason, David Thomas and Lesley Wilson; 19. Psychological support following violent assault and trauma: what works for staff in secure settings? Annette Greenwood and Carol Rooney; Index.