|
| << vorige | volgende >> |
Tijdschrift beschrijving
Alle jaargangen van het bijbehorende tijdschrift
Alle afleveringen van het bijbehorende jaargang
Alle artikelen van de bijbehorende aflevering
Details van artikel 3 van 20 gevonden artikelen
| Titel: |
Are Special Hospitals needed? |
| Auteur: |
Coid, Jeremy Kahtan, Nadji |
| Verschenen in: |
The journal of forensic psychiatry & psychology |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 11 (2000) nr. 1 pagina's 17-35 |
| Jaar: |
2000-04-01 |
| Inhoud: |
It has been recommended that the Special Hospitals should be replaced by high-security services at a regional level. This study examines the implications of such a change in policy and demonstrates that local facilities would have to contain a significant proportion of patients whose violent and criminal behaviour cannot be managed in medium security and where in some cases all previous therapeutic interventions have failed to prevent a progression through successively higher levels of hospital security over time. Admissions to Special Hospitals followed more serious behavioural disturbance in other psychiatric services and more serious offences; the patients had more extensive previous criminal histories and were more likely to have primary and comorbid diagnoses of personality disorder and paraphilias. Almost a quarter of all admissions to the Special Hospitals in 1988-94 were transfers from medium security. This study provides little evidence that medium-security services reduced the demand for beds in Special Hospitals over the study period. The transfer of high-security beds to local services would have to take into account the threefold difference in levels of demand across regional catchment areas. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
Details van artikel 3 van 20 gevonden artikelen
| << vorige | volgende >> |