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Safeguarding in prisons

01 November 2013

Mental Health Practice

Art & Science

Social care safeguarding processes can be introduced in prisons to protect vulnerable prisoners and their vulnerable dependants. This requires clear commissioning of...

meeting the healthcare needs of offenders with learning disabilities

01 May 2005

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

It is widely recognised that many individuals with learning disabilities have additional health problems. For example, they are more likely to experience vision and...

No bars to advocacy

01 October 2004

Mental Health Practice

General

According to some commentators, advocacy in mental health institutions has a history measured in hundreds of years. While for much of this time advocacy has existed...

The challenges of running a learning disability service in a Scottish prison

10 March 2010

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

This article describes the difficulties experienced by prison staff and offenders when an inmate is identified as having a learning disability or a difficulty. It...

Experiences of subculture within a prison community

10 May 2011

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

This article describes the experiences of a prisoner with a mild-to-moderate learning disability and epilepsy, with whom the author worked during a student...

Helping offenders find a way out of recidivism

01 June 2012

Learning Disability Practice

Feature

There is a high recidivism rate among offenders with learning disabilities, in part because of inadequate accommodation, unemployment, substance misuse and mental...

Malingered psychosis among prisoners: part 1

01 November 2005

Mental Health Practice

General

Recent research suggests there is a high prevalence rate of mental disorders among prisoners (Singleton et al 1998, Singleton 2001). But many of the measures used...

Malingered psychosis among prisoners Part 2: the research perspective

01 December 2005

Mental Health Practice

General

The first article in this series provided the reader with a definition of malingering and examined the possible motivations for this type of behaviour with...

Mental healthcare services for close supervision centre prisoners

01 November 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

Close supervision centres (CSCs) contain some of the most difficult-to-manage male prisoners in England and Wales. They form a last resort in the management of...

Women’s mental health in prison: developing an integrated care pathway

01 October 2007

Mental Health Practice

General

This article describes a project to implement the National Institute for Mental Health in England’s recommendations for an integrated offender mental health pathway...