History and Organization of Long-Stay Forensic Care in Croatia

2019 ◽  
pp. 301-316
Author(s):  
Dragica Kozarić-Kovačić ◽  
Nadica Buzina ◽  
Tija Žarković Palijan ◽  
Zrnka Kovačić Petrović
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Care

scholarly journals Personalizing Child Protection: The Value of Responsivity Factors

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Anne M. E. Bijlsma ◽  
Claudia E. van der Put ◽  
Geertjan Overbeek ◽  
Geert Jan J. M. Stams ◽  
Mark Assink
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Specific Treatment ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Risk Need Responsivity ◽  
Forensic Care ◽  
Responsivity Principle

Personalization is an important strategy for enhancing the effectiveness of treatment that is aimed at reducing the risk of child maltreatment. In recent years, a growing body of research has appeared on how child protection can benefit from the principles of the Risk-Need-Responsivity model, but no attention has yet been paid to the implementation of the responsivity principle in child protection. Put simply, this principle states that treatment must be tailored to individual characteristics of clients to optimize its effectiveness. This study was the first to address how the responsivity principle can be of value in child protection. First, a systematic review of responsivity factors in forensic care was performed. Second, the relevance of applying each factor in child protection was examined through interviews with clinical professionals working in the field, who also provided suggestions on how treatment can be tailored to each of these factors. This resulted in an overview of seven responsivity factors all related to caregiver characteristics: problem denial, motivation to cooperate with treatment, psychological problems, cognitive abilities, cultural background, practical barriers such as financial problems and social support, and barriers to specific treatment types such as group therapy. Implications and recommendations for strengthening clinical practice are discussed.

How to Measure Progress in Forensic Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Harry G. Kennedy ◽  
Ken O’Reilly ◽  
Mary Davoren ◽  
Padraic O’Flynn ◽  
Owen P. O’Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Care

scholarly journals Identifying dead migrants: forensic care work and relational citizenship

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 738-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amade M’charek ◽  
Sara Casartelli
Keyword(s):  
Care Work ◽  
Forensic Care

Systemizing and empathy in forensic ASD talk

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 179-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sushie Jayne Dobbinson
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Forensic Patients ◽  
Forensic Care ◽  
The Way

Purpose Since often missed in forensic care settings, little is known about how the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) social and communication deficit impacts on rehabilitation work, particularly when accompanied by intellectual disability. The purpose of this paper is to show how Baron-Cohen’s empathizing – systemizing theory can elucidate common processes in the interaction-based risk-reduction work carried on between ASD forensic patients and their clinicians. Design/methodology/approach Conversation analysis (CA) is used to analyse the talk of two ASD men engaged in risk reduction work with their clinicians on a forensic intellectual disability ward in a medium secure psychiatric hospital in the UK. The clinicians include two forensic nurses and a speech and language therapist. Findings Clinicians adapt to their patients’ systematic processes particularly with regard to helping them understand complex social phenomena such as others’ emotional displays and their understanding of empathy. Practical implications Since ASD in forensic care is poorly researched, clinicians have little in the way of guidance about the interactive strengths and weaknesses of their ASD patients, despite risk reduction work being carried out by means of conversational interactions. This paper demonstrates some key aspects of ASD clinical interactions which may be used to inform treatment strategies elsewhere in the forensic establishment. Originality/value By using Baron-Cohen’s empathizing systemizing theory in combination with CA, this paper aims to bring understanding of ASD interaction up to date. This is of particular importance for this poorly researched patient group, who, because of the way in which they differ to standard psychiatric patients, are at risk of being detained for lengthy periods where treatment strategies are not designed to fit their social and communicative profiles.

Clinical supervision in a high secure hospital: a service evaluation

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Stephanie Lewis ◽  
Jaide Mead ◽  
Ian Treasaden
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Supervision ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Service Evaluation ◽  
Nursing Workforce ◽  
Clinical Team ◽  
Team Leaders ◽  
Forensic Care

Few environments demand a higher level of emotional competences than forensic care settings, and the importance of clinical supervision to mitigate against the risks of such an environment cannot be underestimated. This paper explores the efficacy of clinical supervision provided to nursing staff within a high secure hospital using the Manchester Clinical Supervision Scale. Results indicated that the nursing workforce were overall very satisfied with their clinical supervision, specifically clinical team leaders are most likely to be very satisfied. Results also showed the significance of time: clinical supervision is more effective when it lasts between 30–60 minutes, but correspondingly, time is one of the key barriers to accessing clinical supervision.

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