Browsing Prisons and Secure Settings by Subject "Forensic Mental Health Services"
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A Clinical Feasibility Study of the Forensic Psychiatry and Violence Oxford (FoVOx) Tool
(2019-12)Background: Risk assessment informs decisions around admission to and discharge from secure psychiatric hospital and contributes to treatment and supervision. There are advantages to using brief, scalable, free online tools ... -
Commentary on “the new Italian Residential Forensic Psychiatric System (REMS). A one-year population study”
(2021-01)Although prediction of risk to others (and management of that risk) may be the sine qua non of forensic psychi atry, a large range of instruments, indicators, and other outcomes are available 13. Domains other than ... -
Comorbid Autism Spectrum Disorder and Antisocial Personality Disorder in Forensic Settings
(2021-12)In this editorial, we start from the premise that the commonly held association of ASDs and violence is a misconception. We discuss topics that repeatedly arise in our clinical practice in treating men with an ASD and ASPD ... -
Essential Forensic Medicine
(2020-01)Covers the broad area of the forensic medical sciences, delivering core knowledge in the biomedical sciences, and the law and ethics surrounding them. Concise, accessible chapters cover a wide range of topics from basic ... -
The importance of scalable, evidence-based clinical assessment instruments in forensic psychiatry
(2023-06)Seamless assimilation of a new generation of rapid empirical instruments within forensic mental health services would free up clinicians’ time to focus on compassionate, patient-centred care, by replacing cumbersome ... -
Integrating static and modifiable risk factors in violence risk assessment for forensic psychiatric patients: a feasibility study of FoVOx
(2022-06)Introduction: Risk assessment is integral to forensic psychiatry. Previous work has highlighted the benefits of using scalable and evidence-based actuarial risk tools developed within forensic populations, such as the ... -
Making sense of being recalled: a grounded theory
(2019-01)A high proportion of forensic mental health service users (FSUs) are recalled to secure hospitals from conditional discharge in the community. The limited research on recall to date has preliminarily identified why FSUs ... -
Psychological framework to understand interpersonal violence by forensic patients with psychosis
(2023-10)Forensic patients with psychosis often engage in violent behaviour. There has been significant progress in understanding risk factors for violence, but identification of causal mechanisms of violence is limited. Aims To ... -
REBT with Forensic Populations
(2019-02)For the purpose of this chapter, we are defining a forensic population as comprising individuals who are being managed or restricted by the criminal justice system. Usually, this means that they are people who have committed ... -
Reliability and validity of the FORUM-P and FORUM-C: two novel instruments for outcome measurement in forensic mental health
(2022-05)We conducted a series of tests on the FORensic oUtcome Measure (FORUM), a novel tool for measuring outcomes in forensic mental health services, which consists of complementary patientreported (FORUM-P) and clinician-reported ... -
Thames Valley Forensic Mental Health Service Low Secure Unit Length of Stay Audit
(2019-03)Aims and hypothesis Commissioning changes, and LSUs becoming a more integral part of the care pathway in the Thames Valley Forensic Mental Health Service (TVFMHS), may have led to an impact on patient management. We ...
