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Infection control and hospital epidemiology

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University of Chicago Press

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Holdings: Cape Breton Regional: 2016-; Halifax Infirmary: v. 9, 1988 - v. 23, 2002.

Location: Halifax Infirmary; Cape Breton Regional

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Holdings: Cape Breton Regional: 2016-; Halifax Infirmary: v. 9, 1988 - v. 23, 2002.

ISSN: 0899-832X

Specialty: Communicable Diseases; Epidemiology; Hospitals; Nursing

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Format: Journal

Location: Halifax Infirmary; Cape Breton Regional

Long-Term Forensic Psychiatric Care : Clinical, Ethical and Legal Challenges

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Birgit Völlm, Peter Braun, editors. --Cham: Springer , c2019.

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Location: Online

This book provides an overview of forensic psychiatry, focusing on the provision of care in Europe as well as the legal and ethical challenges posed by long-term stays in forensic settings. Forensic psychiatric services provide care and treatment for mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) in secure in-patient facilities as well as in the community. These services are high-cost/low-volume services; they pose significant restrictions on patients and hence raise considerable ethical challenges. Ther…

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Other Authors: Völlm, Birgit; Braun, Peter

Responsibility: Birgit Völlm, Peter Braun, editors

Place of Publication: Cham

Publisher: Springer

Date of Publication: c2019

Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 343 p.) : 15 illus., 12 illus. in color

ISBN: 9783030125943; 9783030125936 (Print ed.); 9783030125950 (Print ed.); 9783030125967 (Print ed.)

Subjects (MeSH): Forensic Psychiatry; Hospitals, Psychiatric; Long-Term Care - ethics; Patients - psychology; Prisoners - psychology

Other Subjects: Europe

Specialty: Forensic Sciences; Psychiatry

Abstract: This book provides an overview of forensic psychiatry, focusing on the provision of care in Europe as well as the legal and ethical challenges posed by long-term stays in forensic settings. Forensic psychiatric services provide care and treatment for mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) in secure in-patient facilities as well as in the community. These services are high-cost/low-volume services; they pose significant restrictions on patients and hence raise considerable ethical challenges. There is no agreed-upon standard for length of stay (LoS) in secure settings and patients’ detainment periods vary considerably across countries and even within the same jurisdiction. Thus far, little research has been conducted to identify factors associated with length of stay; consequently, it remains unclear how services should be configured to meet the needs of this patient group. This volume fills some of those gaps. Furthermore, it presents new research on factors associated with length of stay, both patient-related and organisational. Various approaches to the provision of care for long-term patients in different countries are explored, including a few best practise examples in this specific area of psychiatry. The book also addresses the perspective of those working in forensic care by reviewing quality-of-life research and interviews with patients. The authors of this volume come from a range of professional backgrounds, ensuring a certain breadth and depth in the topic discussion, and even includes patients themselves as (co-)authors.

Contents: 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Context -- 2. Asylums and Deinstitutionalization: The Penrose Hypothesis in the Twenty-First Century -- 3. Challenges in Comparing Health-Care Systems Across Different Countries -- 4. Long Stay in Europe: A Systems-Oriented Approach -- 5. Ethical Aspects of Long-Stay Forensic Psychiatric Care -- 6. Prevalence and Characteristics of Long-Stay Patients: Results from a Study in England -- Part II. Clinical Aspects of Long-Stay -- 7. Recovery and Strength-Based Practice in Long-Term Forensic Psychiatry -- 8. How to Measure Progress in Forensic Care -- 9. Enhancing Protective Factors in the Management of Violence Risk in Long-Term Psychiatric Care -- 10. Quality of Life in Long-Term Clinical Forensic Psychiatry -- 11. Occupational Therapy with Long-Stay Service Users -- 12. Challenges in the Treatment of Sex Offenders -- 13. Long-Stay and Ageing -- 14. The Experience of Long-Stay in Secure Psychiatric Hospitals in the UK: The Patient Perspective -- 15. Forensic Carers and Secure Inpatient Services -- Part III. Service Models and Alternative Provision -- 16. Long-Term Forensic Psychiatric Care: The Dutch Perspective -- 17. Long-Stay Services in German Forensic Settings -- 18. Forensic Psychiatric Care in Belgium -- 19. Challenges in the Provision of Forensic Services in the Baltic States -- 20. Complementary Model of Long-Term Care in Poland as a Result of the Political Transformation, Law Reform and Service Changes in Forensic Psychiatry -- 21. History and Organization of Long-Stay Forensic Care in Croatia -- 22. The Closure of Forensic Psychiatric Institutions in Italy -- 23. Attitudinal and Organisational Barriers to the Introduction of Long-Stay Services.