University of California Davis Forensic Psychiatry and California Department of State Hospitals Collaboration

2021 ◽  
pp. 85-106
Author(s):  
Charles Scott ◽  
Barbara McDermott ◽  
Katherine Warburton
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
University Of California ◽  
California Department ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Forensic Evaluations ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
State Hospitals ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
The University

The collaboration described in this chapter involves the Department of Psychiatry in the medical school at the University of California, Davis, and the California Department of State Hospitals. For more than 20 years, this partnership has involved placing forensic psychiatry fellows in state hospitals operated by the state of California. In addition to the high-quality forensic psychiatric services delivered by these fellows, the partnership has also included consultation and on-site forensic evaluations conducted by supervising faculty, continuing education and training provided to hospital staff, and applied research conducted on questions directly relevant to practice. It serves as a national model for a well-operated, long-standing partnership between academic psychiatry and a publicly operated hospital system.

Implementation of a specialized program to treat violence in a forensic population

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 571-576
Author(s):  
Susan Velasquez ◽  
Andrea Bauchowitz ◽  
David Pyo ◽  
Megan Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Program ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitals ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Forensic Population ◽  
California Department ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
State Hospitals ◽  
Criminogenic Needs ◽  
Inpatient Settings

A shift within state psychiatric hospitals toward serving a predominantly forensic population has resulted in increased violent incidents within those settings. Thus, addressing criminogenic needs in addition to mental illness is an important paradigm shift. Relying on seclusion or restraint as the primary mechanisms to address violence interferes with the provision of effective care to patients struggling with aggressive behaviors. Implementing new treatment programs aimed at reducing violence in forensic inpatient settings is warranted. This article focuses on the step-by-step process of developing such a specialized treatment program within the California Department of State Hospitals. Leadership within this hospital system collaborated with labor unions and other stakeholders to obtain funding to create a novel treatment environment. This treatment program includes a ward design aimed to improve safety and delivers treatment based on the Risk Needs Responsivity Model. Treatment is guided by violence risk assessment and primarily focused on addressing criminogenic needs. The selection of treatments with a focus on violence reduction is discussed.

Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) in Belgian and Dutch forensic patients

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 2063-2063
Author(s):  
K. Goethals
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Forensic Patients ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Outcome Monitoring ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
The University

IntroductionBy means of ROM, the efficacy of forensic psychiatric treatment can be measured in domains of risk of recidivism, level of psychopathology, and quality of life. Although, research of the efficacy of this treatment has several methodological pitfalls.ObjectivesTo review the literature of ROM in forensic psychiatry; to consider the way of implementing ROM; to present relevant instruments in the domains as mentioned above.AimsTo investigate whether forensic psychiatric treatment leads to less symptoms, and a decrease of reoffending; to investigate the correlation between degrees of psychopathology and quality of life.MethodsPatients are recruited from the University Forensic Center (UFC), Antwerp, Belgium, which is a outpatient facility for treatment of sex offenders. In the future patients from other facilities will be included. Several instruments are used to measure the degree of psychopathology, risk of recidivism, and quality of life.ResultsPreliminary results are presented and discussed in this paper.

Note on an Apocynum Fabric

1947 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila M. O'Neale
Keyword(s):  
University Of California ◽  
Final Report ◽  
California Department ◽  
West Central ◽  
Unique Object ◽  
The University ◽  
New Item

A textile specimen in the University of California Museum of Anthropology, perhaps to be identified as a sling pocket, adds a new item to the growing list of fabrications made of twisted dogbane fiber (Apocynum cannabinum).It is, moreover, constructed by a technique not to my knowledge previously reported. I am indebted to Professor Robert F. Heizer for calling my attention to this unique object and for the following paragraphs placing it in its relation to Nevada archeology.“The piece comes from a dry cave site (Humboldt Cave) in west central Nevada about 10 miles southwest of Lovelock Cave. The cave was excavated in 1936 by the University of California Department of Anthropology, and the final report on the excavation is now nearly completed.

A Forensic Psychiatry Clinic in Evolution

1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-435
Author(s):  
Browning Hoffman ◽  
Robert Showalter ◽  
Charles Whitebread
Keyword(s):  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Forensic Evaluations ◽  
Psychiatric Residents ◽  
Psychiatry Clinic ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Virginia School ◽  
Privileged Communications ◽  
The University

In 1969, a teaching program in forensic psychiatry was launched at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Initially oriented toward the training of psychiatric residents, the Forensic Psychiatry Clinic now offers academic credit to selected law students and draws upon an interdisciplinary faculty. In light of special problems which may arise in forensic evaluations, the paper focuses upon client privacy, confidentiality and privileged communications. Also described are the difficulties of formulating a teaching program responsive simultaneously to the needs of medical students, psychiatric residents and law students.

scholarly journals Safe reopening of college campuses during COVID-19: The University of California experience in Fall 2020

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0258738
Author(s):  
Brad H. Pollock ◽  
A. Marm Kilpatrick ◽  
David P. Eisenman ◽  
Kristie L. Elton ◽  
George W. Rutherford ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
College Campuses ◽  
Health Science ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Test Results ◽  
California Department ◽  
School Year ◽  
Public Health Data ◽  
The University

Background Epidemics of COVID-19 in student populations at universities were a key concern for the 2020–2021 school year. The University of California (UC) System developed a set of recommendations to reduce campus infection rates. SARS-CoV-2 test results are summarized for the ten UC campuses during the Fall 2020 term. Methods UC mitigation efforts included protocols for the arrival of students living on-campus students, non-pharmaceutical interventions, daily symptom monitoring, symptomatic testing, asymptomatic surveillance testing, isolation and quarantine protocols, student ambassador programs for health education, campus health and safety pledges, and lowered density of on-campus student housing. We used data from UC campuses, the UC Health–California Department of Public Health Data Modeling Consortium, and the U.S. Census to estimate the proportion of each campus’ student populations that tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and compared it to the fraction individuals aged 20–29 years who tested positive in their respective counties. Results SARS-CoV-2 cases in campus populations were generally low in September and October 2020, but increased in November and especially December, and were highest in early to mid-January 2021, mirroring case trajectories in their respective counties. Many students were infected during the Thanksgiving and winter holiday recesses and were detected as cases upon returning to campus. The proportion of students who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during Fall 2020 ranged from 1.2% to 5.2% for students living on campus and was similar to students living off campus. For most UC campuses the proportion of students testing positive was lower than that for the 20–29-year-old population in which campuses were located. Conclusions The layered mitigation approach used on UC campuses, informed by public health science and augmented perhaps by a more compliant population, likely minimized campus transmission and outbreaks and limited transmission to surrounding communities. University policies that include these mitigation efforts in Fall 2020 along with SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, may alleviate some local concerns about college students returning to communities and facilitate resumption of normal campus operations and in-person instruction.

Becoming the Rolling Quads: Disability Politics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 506-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scot Danforth
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Disability Rights ◽  
California Department ◽  
Student Activists ◽  
The University

Historical analyses of 1960s university campus activism have focused on activities related to the civil rights movement, Free Speech Movement, and opposition to the Vietnam War. This study supplements the historiography of civil disobedience and political activity on college campuses during that tumultuous era with an account of the initiation of the disability rights movement with the Rolling Quads, a group of disabled student activists at the University of California, Berkeley. This small group, with little political experience and limited connections to campus and community activists, organized to combat the paternalistic managerial practices of the university and the California Department of Rehabilitation. Drawing from the philosophy and strategies of the seething political culture of 1969 Berkeley, the Rolling Quads formed an activist cell that expanded within less than a decade into the most influential disability rights organization in the country.

California State Hospital Violence Assessment and Treatment (Cal-VAT) guidelines

CNS Spectrums ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 449-465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Stahl ◽  
Debbi A. Morrissette ◽  
Michael Cummings ◽  
Allen Azizian ◽  
Shannon Bader ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Hospital ◽  
Clinical Judgment ◽  
Prescribing Practices ◽  
California Department ◽  
Hospital System ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Impulsive Aggression ◽  
Hospital Violence ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Clinical Trial Results

Here we provide comprehensive guidelines for the assessment and treatment of violence and aggression of various etiologies, including psychotic aggression and impulsive aggression due to schizophrenia, mood disorders, ADHD, or trauma, and predatory aggression due to psychopathy and other personality disorders. These guidelines have been developed from a collection of prescribing recommendations, clinical trial results, and years of clinical experience in treating patients who are persistently violent or aggressive in the California Department of State Hospital System. Many of the recommendations provided in these guidelines employ off-label prescribing practices; thus, sound clinical judgment based on individual patient needs and according to institution formularies must be considered when applying these guidelines in clinical practice.

Matricide Versus Patricide in One Croatian Psychiatric Forensic Inpatient Unit

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. S463-S463 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Pedisic ◽  
K. Radic ◽  
N. Buzina ◽  
V. Jukic
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Rare Event ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Forensic Inpatient ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The University

IntroductionParricide (referring as parental homicide) is a rare event among homicides, yet challenging and intriguing from psychiatric point of view. Still, literature concerning parricide is sparse and most studies concern small or heterogenous samples or anecdotal cases.ObjectiveTo analyze differences in parricide offenders among forensic psychiatric inpatients at the university psychiatric hospital Vrapče's centre for forensic psychiatry.AimsTo test some differences between parricide offenders with regard to specific type of parricide.MethodsAvailable retrograde data of 50 years forensic inpatients (n = 430). We identified parricide cases of matricide and patricide included.ResultsThe analysis included a total of 22 parricide offenders. All parricide offenders were male adults. Matricide was more prevalent then patricide (13 vs. 9). Matricide offenders were in average younger when committed crime, had more prevalence of psychotic disorders and earlier onset of symptoms in comparison with patricide group.ConclusionWe identified differences and similarities between these two parricide offenders groups. It is important to expand research further including different types of motives and family dynamics regarding the type of parricide victim.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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