The British Journal of Forensic Practice: Volume 5 Issue 3
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A review of clinical risk and related assessments in forensic psychiatric units
Alyson Kettles, David Robinson, Ellenor MoodyThe level of service provision for people suffering from a mental disorder is an area of debate that has always presented clinicians with numerous difficult decisions. The…
The use of a repertory grid as an aid to assessment and formulation in a sex offender with a learning disability
Jonathan MasonWhereas a number of standardised psychological measures exist for the assessment of sex offenders (eg Beckett, 1994), very few such measures are appropriate for use with those…
Nursing personality‐disordered in‐patients: a schema‐focused approach
Naomi Murphy, Denis McVeyPsychiatric nurses were given training in schema‐focused therapeutic approaches. They were then applied in a forensic setting with a focus on the needs of those patients diagnosed…
Suicide in prisons
Graham TowlSuicide in prisons has been the subject of much research effort (Topp, 1979; Dooley, 1990; Liebling, 1991; Bogue & Power, 1995; Towl & Crighton, 1998; Snow, 2002). For a pithy…
Is readmission a failure?
Stephen BrewsterHow should we judge a readmission to high secure psychiatric services? A case‐by‐case view is insufficient to make sense of potential service deficiencies. People in high secure…