ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|17 pages
Introduction
chapter Chapter 1|6 pages
Marginalisation and diversity in forensic mental health care
chapter Chapter 2|9 pages
The US Criminal Justice System
part 2|52 pages
Marginalised and diverse social characteristics
chapter Chapter 4|10 pages
Transitional spaces
chapter Chapter 6|11 pages
Ethnic minority forensic patients in the German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg
part 3|43 pages
Marginalised and diverse clinical characteristics
chapter Chapter 10|11 pages
The problematic nature of transitions amongst adolescents with multiple and complex needs in secure care
part 4|33 pages
Developing responsive interventions and models of care
chapter Chapter 13|10 pages
The Elders Project
chapter Chapter 14|11 pages
Working in multicultural forensic settings
part 5|44 pages
Communicating with marginalised groups
part 6|6 pages
Conclusion