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1. Improving the mental health care of prisoners: nurses face many barriers when providing a service for detainees equivalent to that offered in the community. Alexis Warrilow discusses the challenges and how they can be overcome

Author

Warrilow, Alexis

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Practice guidelines (Medicine), Nursing care -- Management, Psychiatric nursing -- Practice, Psychiatric services -- Service enhancement, Mental illness -- Care and treatment -- Risk factors, Company business management, Health, Health care industry, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

Abstract A high proportion of prisoners have mental health problems. There is a need to structure, resource and support robust mental health services in prison that can address the complex [...]

Published
2012

2. Better off in prison? A psychiatrist gains new insight on the state of behavioral healthcare after joining the staff at a Wisconsin prison

Author

Moffic, H. Steven

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Behavioral health care -- Public opinion, Psychiatric services -- Access control, Correctional psychology -- Practice, Psychiatrists -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Prison psychology -- Practice, Health, Health care industry, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

When my clinic manager told me that prison may be the best place to practice psychiatry nowadays, I didn't believe him. After all, prisons often seem like a world apart, [...]

Published
2010

3. Convergence of services on track to raise standards of psychiatric care for offenders: Sophie Blakemore reports on the successes and challenges facing schemes focused on improving liaison between the criminal justice system and mental health services

Author

Blakemore, Sophie

Subjects
Health care reform -- Political aspects -- Planning, Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Psychiatric services -- Political aspects -- Services -- Social aspects, Criminal justice, Administration of -- Management, Mental illness -- Care and treatment, Company business planning, Company business management, Health, Health care industry, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

MORE THAN one in ten prisoners has a severe mental illness but the vast majority do not receive the help and treatment they need. The issue was highlighted in April [...]

Published
2010

4. A suitable case for treatment: nine in ten prisoners have a mental health disorder. Sophie Blakemore reports on specialist nurses who are addressing their needs

Author

Blakemore, Sophie

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Mentally ill -- Care and treatment, Psychiatric nursing -- Practice -- Psychological aspects, Health, Health care industry
Abstract

SUMMARY Although mental health care in prison has improved, there is still a long way to go. Keywords Education and training * Mental health * Multidisciplinary working * Prisons ********** [...]

Published
2009

5. Prison mental health

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Mentally ill -- Care and treatment, Health, Health care industry, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

The RCN, the Centre for Mental Health and the crime reduction charity Nacre have together published a document, Prison Mental Health: Vision and Reality, on recent achievements in prison mental [...]

Published
2010

6. Public against prison sentences for patients, claims charity

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Prison sentences -- Surveys, Health, Health care industry, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

MORE THAN two thirds of the UK public think that prison is an inappropriate place to accommodate offenders with mental health problems, according to a survey by the charity Together. [...]

Published
2010

7. AdCare's criminal justice unit gets grant to treat high-risk inmates

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Substance abuse -- Care and treatment, Government, Health, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

AdCare, a substance use disorder (SUD) treatment program based in Middleton, Massachusetts, is working with the Essex County Sheriff's Department to target services to 88 male inmates who will be [...]

Published
2014

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