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1. UNDAUNTED; OPINION

Author

Faqiri, Yusuf

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Life change events -- Social aspects, Mental health -- Social aspects, Justice, Administration of -- Social aspects -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Canada, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: YUSUF FAQIRI Lead Soleiman Faqiri's eldest brother and the founder of the Justice for Soli movement Right up until the moment my family's life changed forever, there was nothing [...]

Published
2021

2. 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

3. Jail-based mental and behavioral treatment solutions

Author

Gyurina, Dave

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Correctional psychology -- Methods, Prison psychology -- Methods, Law
Abstract

Most communities, unfortunately, lack effective behavior change programs for offenders that may significantly reduce crime. As a result, more than 50 percent of released inmates commit new crimes and are [...]

Published
2014

4. Moving toward a public safety/public health model

Author

Aufderheide, Dean H.

Subjects
Safety -- Models, Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Public health -- Models, Imprisonment -- Statistics, Law
Abstract

The U.S. continues to have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with only 5 percent of the world's population, but nearly 25 percent of the world's inmates.(1) [...]

Published
2014

5. 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

6. Seeing through the eyes of schizophrenia

Author

Geiman, Diane

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Mental health -- Reports -- Management, Schizophrenia -- Diagnosis -- Development and progression -- Care and treatment, Mental illness -- Diagnosis -- Care and treatment, Company business management, Law, Treatment Advocacy Center -- Reports
Abstract

Deinstitutionalization brought the hope that many individuals with mental illness could be treated in the community and lead productive lives rather than languish in mentalinstitutions for years. The architects of [...]

Published
2012

7. Behavioral management disorders and serious mental illness in a maximum-security prison: it takes a 'healthily codependent' staff

Author

Holwager, James K.

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Mental health -- Management, Mental illness -- Care and treatment, Company business management, Law
Abstract

In corrections, we manage offenders. To do so in a safe and humane manner that also prepares offenders for a return to society is central to most, if not all, [...]

Published
2012

8. Taking STEPPS to address borderline personality disorder

Author

Black, Donald W. and Blum, Nancee

Subjects
Iowa. Department of Corrections, Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Borderline personality disorder -- Care and treatment, Law
Abstract

Since 2005, the Iowa Department of Corrections has worked with the authors to integrate the Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving (STEPPS) program into the routine care of [...]

Published
2011

9. Let's go to the mall

Author

Catlett, Terri L.

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Mental health services -- Models, Law
Abstract

On any given day at the Central Prison Health Care Complex in Raleigh, N.C., correctional staff can walk into a classroom and find in-patient mental health offenders watching an episode [...]

Published
2015

10. Trapped in a Loop

Author

Winerip, Michael and Schwirtz, Michael

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Mentally disabled persons -- Care and treatment, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

It was not a particularly violent crime that sent Michael Megginson to Rikers Island. He was arrested for stealing a cellphone. But in jail, Mr. Megginson, who is 25 and [...]

Published
2015

11. The horror in U.S. prisons

Subjects
Prisoner abuse -- Investigations -- Psychological aspects, Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Solitary confinement -- Psychological aspects, Company legal issue, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, American Civil Liberties Union -- Reports
Abstract

The following editorial appeared in Thursday's Washington Post: 'I'm losing my sanity,' one prisoner wrote. 'You could not tell day from night,' another reported. 'You were always backward. . . [...]

Published
2015

12. 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

13. 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

15. The Mentally Ill, Behind Bars

Author

Harcourt, Bernard E.

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Mentally ill -- Care and treatment, Insanity -- Jurisprudence
Abstract

LAST August, a prison inmate in Jackson, Mich. -- someone the authorities described as 'floridly psychotic' -- died in his segregation cell, naked, shackled to a concrete slab, lying in […]

Published
2007

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. In case you haven't heard

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Drums (Musical instruments) -- Usage, Law, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

Officials in several Western Australia prisons have found a compelling instrument for improving the mental health of inmates: a drum. Researchers at the University of Western Australia have found that [...]

Published
2014

20. W. Va. introduces early-release program for inmates with MI

Subjects
Prisoners -- Psychological aspects -- Care and treatment, Outpatients -- Care and treatment -- Psychological aspects, Psychiatric services -- Management -- Psychological aspects, Mental illness -- Care and treatment, Company business management, Law, Psychology and mental health
Abstract

In an effort to reduce the prison population, West Virginia is setting up the Northern Panhandle Re-Entry Court, an early-release program for inmates with mental health issues or addiction, the [...]

Published
2009

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