Patients’ Expressed Nursing Care Needs in a Forensic Psychiatric Setting

The Forensic Unit of the Alberta Hospital Edmonton has moved from evaluating the performance of a client in a work setting by observation to providing a comprehensive data base on the client through the use of a work history, interest screening and commercial work evaluation systems. A standardized approach, to evaluation has enabled the Occupational Therapists to develop a unique treatment programme for the individual client as a result of the evaluation process and provided reliable data in returning the client to competitive employment.

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Music Therapy and Forensic Psychiatry — Choice, Denial and the Law

Journal of British Music Therapy ◽

10.1177/135945759400800203 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 10-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Helen Loth

Keyword(s):

Music Therapy ◽

Psychiatric Hospital ◽

Forensic Psychiatry ◽

Therapy Group ◽

Psychiatric Setting ◽

Secure Unit ◽

The Law ◽

Forensic Psychiatric

This paper looks at aspects of work in the forensic psychiatric setting. It is based on music therapy work in a Medium Secure Unit, situated within a general psychiatric hospital. It was felt that there were several important differences in working in this unit of the hospital which often seemed to question the feasability and existence of a music therapy group. This paper concerns itself with these differences. A brief introduction to forensic psychiatry and secure units is given first. This is followed by a short case study of an eight-week music therapy group from which material is used to look at the themes identified. These are summarized into the headings of choice, denial and the law. Their effect on the patients is discussed and the ways in which the music therapy group can address the issues involved are highlighted.

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Interrater Reliability of Psychopathy Checklist–Revised: Results on Multiple Analysis Levels for a Sample of Patients Undergoing Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation

Criminal Justice and Behavior ◽

10.1177/0093854817747647 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 234-263 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Anna M. Dåderman ◽

Åke Hellström

Keyword(s):

Intraclass Correlation ◽

Correlation Coefficients ◽

Field Studies ◽

Psychiatric Evaluation ◽

Training Experience ◽

Psychopathy Checklist ◽

Personal Liberty ◽

Psychiatric Setting ◽

Psychopathy Checklist Revised ◽

Forensic Psychiatric

Scores from the Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R) are used to support decisions regarding personal liberty. In our study, performed in an applied forensic psychiatric setting, intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) for absolute agreement, single rater (ICCA1) were .89 for the total score, .82 for Factor 1, .88 for Factor 2, and .78 to .86 for the four facets. These results stand in contrast to lower reliabilities found in a majority of field studies. Disagreement among raters made a low contribution (0%-5%) to variability of scores on the total score, factor, and facet level. For individual items, ICCA1 varied from .38 to .94, with >.80 for seven of the 20 items. Items 17 (“Many short-term marital relationships”) and 19 (“Revocation of conditional release”) showed very low reliabilities (.38 and .43, respectively). The importance of knowledge about factors that can affect scoring of forensic instruments (e.g., education, training, experience, motivation, raters’ personality, and quality of file data) is emphasized.

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Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing

10.1093/med/9780199533220.001.0001 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disability ◽

Nursing Care ◽

Care Needs ◽

Reference Guide

The Oxford Handbook of Learning and Intellectual Disability Nursing is a practical, easily accessible, informative and up-to-date quick reference guide for students and practitioners of intellectual disability nursing who require guidance on the specific nursing care needs of patients with learning or intellectual disability.

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Ethical Issues in the Practice of Forensic Psychiatry

The Journal of Psychiatry & Law ◽

10.1177/009318538201000103 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 7-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Forensic Psychiatry ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Rapid Development ◽

Panel Discussion ◽

Special Interests ◽

Philosophical Perspective ◽

Psychiatric Setting ◽

Forensic Psychiatric ◽

Hospital Center

The recent, rapid development of the practice of forensic psychiatry has led to an increasing awareness of and a growing concern about the ethical issues that inhere in this subspecialty. While some such issues are similar to those found in the general practice of psychiatry (confidentiality, informed consent, etc.), there are aspects of these and other ethical issues which are unique to the practice of forensic psychiatry. On October 16 and 17, 1980, at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and Law held in Chicago, Illinois, a panel discussion concerning ethical issues in forensic psychiatry took place. The chairman was Henry C. Weinstein, M.D., Director, Forensic Psychiatry Services, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York. This panel, made up of two forensic psychiatrists and two philosophers (with special interests in medical ethics), discussed the ethical issues in the practice of forensic psychiatry from a variety of perspectives. A general statement in regard to ethics and forensic psychiatry opened the panel, followed by a series of presentations relating to specific ethical issues, including those which face the forensic psychiatrist practicing in a secure forensic unit, those which arise in the practice of forensic psychiatry with children and adolescents, as well as ethical issues relating to research in forensic psychiatry. A special program for the exploration and teaching of ethical issues, in a clinical forensic psychiatric setting, utilizing a philosopher-in-residence, was described and discussed. The panel presentation was concluded by a commentary from the philosophical perspective.

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Evaluating the use of enforced clozapine in an Australian forensic psychiatric setting: two cases

BMC Psychiatry ◽

10.1186/1471-244x-7-s1-p13 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 7 (S1) ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

John Kasinathan ◽

Tony Mastroianni

Keyword(s):

Psychiatric Setting ◽

Forensic Psychiatric

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An overview of research designs relevant to nursing: Part 1: quantitative research designs

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/s0104-11692007000300022 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 502-507 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Valmi D. Sousa ◽

Martha Driessnack ◽

Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes

Keyword(s):

Experimental Research ◽

Nursing Care ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

Evidence Based Practice ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Relevant Research ◽

Care Needs ◽

Nursing Knowledge ◽

Research Designs

This three part series of articles provides a brief overview of relevant research designs in nursing. The first article in the series presents the most frequently used quantitative research designs. Strategies for non-experimental and experimental research designs used to generate and refine nursing knowledge are described. In addition, the importance of quantitative designs and the role they play in developing evidence-based practice are discussed. Nursing care needs to be determined by the results of sound research rather than by clinical preferences or tradition.

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