Mental illness at reception into prison

Birmingham, Luke; Gray, Joanne; Mason, Debbie; Грубин, Дон

doi:10.1002/cbm.347

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“…Despite this official position, mutual suspicion, common to totalitarian environments, and punitive attitudes produced by custodial settings affect daily life and the provision of health services. In fact, English researchers have discovered that the authoritarian attitude of health professionals is an obstacle to the sharing of psychological distress by prisoners (Birmingham et al, 2000). In direct line with this, the nurses' score on the ''Attitude Towards Prisoners Scale'' reveals that they have the most negative attitude of all categories of custodial employees tested (Shields & deMoya, 1997).…”

Section: The Experiences Of Healthcare In Prison Between Punishment mentioning

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Women, the embodiment of health and carceral space

Robert

Frigon

Balzile

2007

International Journal of Prisoner Health

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Using the example of women incarcerated in Canada, this paper aims at showing the necessity of studying prisoners' health and healthcare through a perspective informed both by a criminology of the body and prison/penal sociology. Health is too often constructed as a set of discrete variables that can be isolated from the whole person and her environment. In this paper, we want to show the complexities and richness of situating carceral health and healthcare within the experience of the body and prison. After describing the situation of women in prison in Canada and their health status before incarceration and while in prison, the intricacies of health, healthcare and punishment will be described and we will conclude by showing how health and the body act as a site of control and a site of resistance for incarcerated women.

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Section: The Experiences Of Healthcare In Prison Between Punishment mentioning

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Women, the embodiment of health and carceral space

Robert

Frigon

Balzile

2007

International Journal of Prisoner Health

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“…Such screening may be effective in identifying inmates who require services upon admission to the gaol or after suffering an acute episode (Birmingham et al, 2000;Stein & Alaimo, 1998). However, inmates may develop mental health problems after incarceration (or their problems may intensify) (Hodgins, 1995) but before experiencing a crisis episode, fall between the cracks.…”

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Identifying and Accommodating the Needs of Mentally Ill People in Gaols and Prisons

Ogloff

2002

Psychiatry, Psychology and Law

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“…Two major deficits were identified: screening arrangements for mental health problems at reception (Birmingham, Gray, Mason, & Grubin, 2000;Grubin, Birmingham, & Mason, 1997), and an inadequate level of care-planning. A draft Prison Mental Health Care Pathway has been produced (Brooker & Stoddart, 2005), which explicitly outlines good practice pathways at various key phases of a prisoner's mental health service experience.…”

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Mental health in‐reach teams in English prisons: Aims, processes and impacts

Ricketts

Brooker

Dent‐Brown

2007

Intl Jnl of Prisoner Health

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Prisoners are at greater risk of developing mental health problems compared with people of a similar age and gender in the community. They are less likely to have their mental health needs recognised, are less likely to receive psychiatric help or treatment, and are at an increased risk of suicide. Prison mental health in‐reach services have been developed in the UK to address these problems. An organisational case study method was used to generate theory about the links between the aims, processes and impacts of the introduction of mental health in‐reach teams to prison contexts. Case studies were undertaken on six sites and included interviews and focus groups with in‐reach team staff, prison healthcare staff, and discipline staff. The aims of prison mental health in‐reach were related to providing an equivalent service to a Community Mental Health Team, with a primary focus on serious mental illness, but a widening role. Achievement of these aims was mediated by the organisational context, active relationship development and leadership. Overall effects were positively reported by all stakeholders. Successful development was not just a function of time in post, but also a function of the effectiveness of leadership within the in‐reach teams. The more effective teams were having a wide impact on the response to mental health problems in the prison setting

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Mental illness at reception into prison

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Cited by 44 publications

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Women, the embodiment of health and carceral space

Women, the embodiment of health and carceral space

Identifying and Accommodating the Needs of Mentally Ill People in Gaols and Prisons

Mental health in‐reach teams in English prisons: Aims, processes and impacts

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