Psychiatry in Prisons: A Comprehensive Handbook (Forensic Focus)

✍ Scribed by Simon Wilson, Ian Cumming

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Series: Forensic Focus
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Psychiatry in Prisons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, problems and development of psychiatric health care in prisons, focusing particularly on the UK. The contributors tackle a broad range of issues, from familiar mental health issues such as substance misuse, self-injury and health screening to complex legal, moral and philosophical dilemmas. It also draws comparisons with the US correctional mental health system and the delivery of mental health services in New Zealand prisons. This comprehensive guide is an indispensable resource for psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, prison medical officers, probation officers, prison discipline staff and any other professionals concerned with mental health care in custodial settings. This series takes the field of Forensic Psychotherapy as its focal point, offering a forum for the presentation of theoretical and clinical issues. It embraces such influential neighbouring disciplines as language, law, literature, criminology, ethics and philosophy, as well as psychiatry and psychology, its established progenitors.

✦ Table of Contents

Psychiatry in Prisons:
A Comprehensive Handbook......Page 4
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 9
Contents......Page 6
1. Introduction – The History of Prison Psychiatry......Page 10
2. The Current Structure of the Prison Service......Page 17
3. Delivering Mental Health Services in Prison......Page 25
4. Health Screening in Prisons......Page 31
5. Mentally Ill Prisoners and Mental Health Issues in Prison......Page 41
6. Suicide, Attempted Suicide and Self-injury in Prison......Page 53
7. Managing Substance Misuse in Prison......Page 66
8. The Young Offender......Page 78
9. Women in Prison......Page 87
10. Elderly Prisoners......Page 99
11. People with Intellectual Disabilities in Prison......Page 108
12. Black and Minority Ethnic Prisoners......Page 126
13. Sex Offenders and Vulnerable Prisoners......Page 133
14. Consent to Treatment, the Mental Health Act, and the Mental
Capacity Act......Page 145
15. Hunger Strike and Food Refusal......Page 156
16. Psychiatric Reports......Page 173
17. The Lifer System in England and Wales......Page 195
18. Psychology in Prisons......Page 204
19. Prison Therapeutic Regimes......Page 211
20. Death in Custody......Page 224
21. Prisons Inspection......Page 231
22. International Perspectives (I) – An Overview of US Correctional
Mental Health......Page 240
23. International Perspectives (II) – Delivery of Mental Health
Services in New Zealand Prisons: Context and Approaches......Page 247
24. Inside–Outside: Ethical Dilemmas in Prison Psychiatry......Page 254
25. Prison Language as an Organisational Defence Against Anxiety......Page 262
The Contributors......Page 273
References......Page 277
Legal Cases......Page 306
Subject Index......Page 308
Author Index......Page 314
back cover......Page 320