Predicting hospital aggression in secure psychiatric care [PDF]
Background Risk assessment instruments have become a preferred means for predicting future aggression, claiming to predict long-term aggression risk.
Jane L. Ireland +5 more
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Secure care: more harm than good. [PDF]
KEY POINTS Many who overdose on drugs in British Columbia are youth under the age of 19 years,[1][1] and calls for “secure care” legislation have intensified. Secure care legislation would legitimize the detention and forced care of youth who are deemed to be at immediate risk of ...
Pilarinos A +3 more
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Young men and young women in secure care: gender differences in the placement of those with mental health needs [PDF]
Background The system of secure care for young people in England and Wales comprises youth justice, welfare and mental health facilities. Empirical studies have failed to investigate the system as a whole.
Annie Bartlett +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Secure care (forensic) hospital evaluation of manualised interpersonal art-psychotherapy (SCHEMA): A randomised controlled trial protocol [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
Background Within the criminal Justice System in the UK one-third of prisoners self-identified as having a learning difficulty and/or disability. This is broadly consistent with formal assessment of the needs of offenders, with 29% of the offender ...
Matthew Franklin +12 more
doaj +2 more sources
Adolescent community reinforcement approach in secure care for adolescents with substance use and serious norm-violating behaviour: a randomised feasibility trial [PDF]
Background Adolescents placed in state-run secure youth homes (by the Swedish National Board of Institutional Care) due to substance misuse and serious norm-violating behaviour (including offending) are in pressing need of effective help, yet available ...
Tobias Lundgren +5 more
doaj +2 more sources
Characteristics of women admitted to medium secure care: a comparison of patients admitted to specialised single-sex and mixed-sex services in an English forensic psychiatric hospital [PDF]
BackgroundForensic mental health care has evolved from mixed-sex provision to specialised sex-specific services. It is important to understand how the characteristics of women admitted to medium secure care have changed over time and how this may impact ...
Lucy McCarthy +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
Time From Referral to Discharge From High Secure Care: Challenges for Flow Through the Forensic Estate [PDF]
Aims The Independent Forensic Mental Health Review (Scottish Government, 2021) highlighted an issue with timely transitions through and out of Scottish forensic inpatient services.
Gavin Third +3 more
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Care(ful) relationships: Supporting children in secure care [PDF]
AbstractSecure children's homes are used to accommodate children aged 10–16 under two main categories; while half are sentenced after committing a serious offence, the other half are placed because there are serious concerns around their safety in the community.
Katie Ellis, Penny Curtis
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