This book explores the ways in which diversity and experiences of marginalisation are present in forensic mental health care settings around the globe and suggests ways of moving forward.
Forensic mental health services provide care for a group of patients who are marginalised in several respects. Many have experienced childhood adversity and abuse, substance use, serious and chronic mental disorders, poor healthcare education or treatment, inadequate educational opportunities, social isolation, and pervasive forms of stigmatization. On top of these individual experiences of marginalisation, wide diversity exists across patients’ socio-demographic, cultural, and clinical characteristics. Chapters in this book discuss these crucial and often sensitive problems, such as working with transgender prisoners, the impact of incarceration for children from non-white backgrounds, cultural and linguistic diversity in forensic settings, and more.
Combining global perspectives, current evidence and case studies, this book will be of interest to patients, carers, practitioners, researchers, and students of forensic mental health.
Author(s): Jack Tomlin, Birgit Völlm
Series: International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 221
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
References
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Introduction
1 Marginalisation and diversity in forensic mental health care: an introduction
2 The US Criminal Justice System: the experience of racially marginalised people
Part 2 Marginalised and diverse social characteristics
3 Intersectional inequalities and women in secure settings
4 Transitional spaces: working with transgender prisoners in the United Kingdom
5 Children in custody: the context and impact of incarceration
6 Ethnic minority forensic patients in the German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg
7 Fathers in forensic mental health services
Part 3 Marginalised and diverse clinical characteristics
8 Autism in forensic settings
9 Learning disability and forensic mental health
10 The problematic nature of transitions amongst adolescents with multiple and complex needs in secure care: an overview of institutional transitions
11 ‘Long-Stay’ in forensic mental health
Part 4 Developing responsive interventions and models of care
12 A tripartite model of cultural, clinical, and operational governance in the planning and delivery of culturally informed care for Indigenous Māori forensic mental health service users
13 The Elders Project: bringing Black African-Caribbean collectivism in from the outside
14 Working in multicultural forensic settings: an integrated model of assessment
Part 5 Communicating with marginalised groups
15 The individual as a marginalised cohort in secure and forensic mental health inpatient settings in the United Kingdom
16 Including older forensic service users in research
17 Men in ‘Limbo’: masculinities in medium-secure care in Scotland
18 Carers and forensic services: towards carers’ peer support
Part 6 Conclusion
19 Conclusion: pulling towards justice
Index
