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.
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.
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
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.
`Review from previous edition This volume, encyclopedic in scope,
consists of 324 pages of valuable information backed up by 1000
references. It also serves as a useful template for any group
seeking to start a forensic treatment program. The information is
clearly stated, explaining how practice is actually conducted every
day by the average practitioner. The book is both a how-to and
hands-on guide, yet erudite and scholarly . . . I highly
recommend
this text - in my opinion, without major flaws - as it provides an
in-depth discussion of the major issues that clinicians encounter,
both in individual practices and as team members in a community
setting.
It is likely to be difficult reading for those new to forensics,
but with time and effort, much can be learned.'
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 65:6
`Clinically [the book] is well informed and evidence based, but its
excellence is to place that material in a wider ethical and moral
context. This is a book that . . . should be a core text for
forensic practitioners, as well as providing important reading for
those with an interest in forensic psychiatry or who are
responsible for planning forensic services.'
Psychological Medicine, 33
`Alec Buchanan has assembled a high-class list of contributors for
this book . . . I do recommed that all of those involved in the
care of mentally disordered offenders consider this book.'
British Journal of Psychiatry
`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 risk assessment 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 and treatment of mentally
disordered offenders in community settings in the UK and has the
makings of a classic text.'
Nursing Times
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