Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community

This new edition provides readers with a fresh, updated guide to the latest developments in the social context, management, and treatment of offenders in mental health care.

Zusatztext Buchanan's book is a multidiscplinary text on the care and treatment of mentally disordered offenders in the community. I found it refreshing and a pleasure to read. It has no inhibitions and does not dwell on role conflicts in working with mentally disordered offenders . . . He and his contributors beautifully differentiate between the subtleties of the theoretical and practical components of addressing mental health problems and criminogenic need within a riskassessment framework incorporating the wider social context. This book! therefore! offers a cogent framework for practice. I strongly recommend it to all forensic community nurses and those working in low-secure settings as it offers a wealth of guidance. It sets the standard in the care andtreatment of mentally disordered offenders in community settings in the UK and has the makings of a classic text. Informationen zum Autor Alec Buchanan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Division of Law and Psychiatry, New Haven, CT, USA.Lisa Wootton is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK and Honorary Researcher at the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopment Science, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. Klappentext This new edition provides readers with a fresh, updated guide to the latest developments in the social context, management, and treatment of offenders in mental health care. Zusammenfassung This new edition provides readers with a fresh, updated guide to the latest developments in the social context, management, and treatment of offenders in mental health care.

Autorentext

Alec Buchanan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, Division of Law and Psychiatry, New Haven, CT, USA.

Lisa Wootton is a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK and Honorary Researcher at the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopment Science, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.

Zusammenfassung
This revised and updated edition of Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community provides a comprehensive, evidence-based guide to theory and practice. The social and clinical context within which mental health care is provided to offenders in community settings has changed significantly in recent years. An increasing proportion of all mental health care is provided in the community and our knowledge of the links between violence and mental illness has advanced. Existing psychological and pharmacological treatments have been refined and new treatments have been introduced. Epidemiological and intervention-based research has evaluated these changes and suggested new avenues for clinical development. Over three sections, the second edition of Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community explores the key areas of the field. Part 1 describes the social, administrative and clinical context within which care is now given. Part 2 discusses treatment and the evaluation of violence risk when determining the most appropriate treatment. Part 3 explores psychiatric services and their relationship with other agencies. The text has been updated to cover recent developments in theory and practice. New chapters have been added that cover US provision for people with mental disorders leaving prison, the community management of sexual offenders, the relationship between care and coercion and the treatment of personality disorders. Written by a global team of experts, the book provides critical insights into the social, clinical, and institutional aspects of an increasingly important part of psychiatric community care.

Inhalt

• The social, administrative, and clinical context

• 1: Nikolas Rose: Society, madness, and control

• 2: Jane Senior, Adrian Hayes, and Jenny Shaw: UK health policy in relation to mentally disordered offenders in the community

• 3: Jeffrey W. Swanson, Marvin S. Swartz, and Daniel D. Mosele: US outpatient commitment in context: when is it ethical and how can we tell?

• 4: Jo Beswick and Michael Gunn: The law in England and Wales on mental health treatment in the community

• 5: David A. D'Amora, Mai P. Tran, and Fred Osher: Achieving positive outcomes for justice-involved individuals with behavioral health disorders

• 6: Joan Busfield: Psychiatric disorder and individual violence: evidence and perceptions

• The provision of care

• 7: Merrill Rotter, Virginia Barber-Rioja, and Faith Schombs: Recovery and recidivism reduction for offenders with mental illness: need identification and associated interventions

• 8: Nikki Jeffcote and Jackie Craissati: Treatment and management of personality disordered offenders in the community

• 9: Derek K. Tracy and Fiona Gaughran: Treatment with medication: side effects, adherence and risk

• 10: Kingsley Norton and Cleo Van Velsen: Out-patient psychotherapeutic approaches with mentally-disordered offenders

• 11: John M. W. Bradford, Giovana V de Amorim Levin, Adekunle Ahmed, and Sanjiv Gulati: Sex offender treatment

• 12: Alec Buchanan and Michael A. Norko: Violence risk in community settings

• Services, policies, and controversy

• 13: Alec Buchanan, Steve Kisely, Daniel Moseley, Jorun Rugkåsa, Jeffrey Swanson, Marvin Swartz: Community psychiatric treatment under legal mandates: the international experience

• 14: John Dawson and Tom Burns: Avoiding legal barriers to transition of mentally disordered offenders to general mental health care

• 15: James McGuire and Lisa Wootton: Multiple agencies with diverse goals

• 16: Frank Holloway and Tony Davies: The community mental health team and the mentally disordered offender

• 17: Lisa Wootton, Tom Fahy, Simon Wilson, and Alec Buchanan: The interface of general psychiatric and forensic psychiatric services: clinical management