Care of the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community

by Alec Buchanan (Editor), Lisa Wootton (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192526755
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	10/05/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

The social, administrative, and clinical context
1. Society, madness, and control, Nikolas Rose
2. UK health policy in relation to mentally disordered offenders in the community, Jane Senior, Adrian Hayes, and Jenny Shaw
3. US outpatient commitment in context: when is it ethical and how can we tell?, Jeffrey W. Swanson, Marvin S. Swartz, and Daniel D. Mosele
4. The law in England and Wales on mental health treatment in the community, Jo Beswick and Michael Gunn
5. Achieving positive outcomes for justice-involved individuals with behavioral health disorders, David A. D'Amora, Mai P. Tran, and Fred Osher
6. Psychiatric disorder and individual violence: evidence and perceptions, Joan Busfield
The provision of care
7. Recovery and recidivism reduction for offenders with mental illness: need identification and associated interventions, Merrill Rotter, Virginia Barber-Rioja, and Faith Schombs
8. Treatment and management of personality disordered offenders in the community, Nikki Jeffcote and Jackie Craissati
9. Treatment with medication: side effects, adherence and risk, Derek K. Tracy and Fiona Gaughran
10. Out-patient psychotherapeutic approaches with mentally-disordered offenders, Kingsley Norton and Cleo Van Velsen
11. Sex offender treatment, John M. W. Bradford, Giovana V de Amorim Levin, Adekunle Ahmed, and Sanjiv Gulati
12. Violence risk in community settings, Alec Buchanan and Michael A. Norko
Services, policies, and controversy
13. Community psychiatric treatment under legal mandates: the international experience, Alec Buchanan, Steve Kisely, Daniel Moseley, Jorun Rugkasa, Jeffrey Swanson, Marvin Swartz
14. Avoiding legal barriers to transition of mentally disordered offenders to general mental health care, John Dawson and Tom Burns
15. Multiple agencies with diverse goals, James McGuire and Lisa Wootton
16. The community mental health team and the mentally disordered offender, Frank Holloway and Tony Davies
17. The interface of general psychiatric and forensic psychiatric services: clinical management, Lisa Wootton, Tom Fahy, Simon Wilson, and Alec Buchanan

Editorial Reviews

4 Stars! from Doody

Reviewer: John Claro Onate, BS, MD (Rush University Medical Center)
Description: This book on the theory and practice of the treatment, in the community, of people who suffer from mental illness and who break the law also highlights the conflict between serving the patient and protecting the community.
Purpose: The purpose is to describe the current emphasis on treating people with psychiatric problems and reducing the chance of a violent acts in the community. This is a very relevant subject in psychiatry and law today. The author is successful in describing the current theory, practice, and ethics of outpatient forensic psychiatry in the U.K.
Audience: The book is intended for psychologists, psychiatrists, lawyers, residents, or fellows, but it is written on a level which undergraduate or graduate students can understand. The book is easy to read, although some of the authors write more clearly than others. The author is a professor of forensic psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and is well suited to the topic.
Features: The book is divided into three parts. Essays and discussions on society and the mentally ill with a focus on violent crime perpetrated by the mentally ill make up chapter one. The development and understanding of risk assessment and predicting violent outbursts bridge into part two. Part two covers the specifics of treating the mentally ill from a forensic stance, including assessing risk of violence, compliance, psychotherapy, and psychopharmacology. The organization and role of the mental health team and, finally, the involuntary outpatient treatment policies and laws in the United States rounds out part two. Part three covers the integration of general psychiatric and forensic psychiatric practitioners and the demands of divergent forces on the psychiatrist taking care of mentally ill offenders. The most helpful sections are on risk assessment from a clinical, medical-legal, and theory standpoint. The only drawback is the fact that the book is written about British practice and law save for the chapter on involuntary outpatient treatment in the United States.
Assessment: This book is helpful in understanding the complex relationship between the law and psychiatry which is invoked in treating medically ill offenders. It is mostly an overview of policy and practice with a focus on areas of controversy and ambiguity. It attempts and succeeds in showing an organized and evidence-based approach to outpatient forensic psychiatry.

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