scholarly journals The Relation Between Aggression and the Living Group Climate in a Forensic Treatment Unit for Adolescents: A Pilot Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (7) ◽  
pp. 1821-1837 ◽  
Author(s):  
An de Decker ◽  
Lisa Lemmens ◽  
Peer van der Helm ◽  
Liesbeth Bruckers ◽  
Geert Molenberghs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Multilevel Regression ◽  
Treatment Unit ◽  
Group Climate ◽  
Treatment Practices ◽  
Forensic Treatment ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Living Group

In the current study, the associations between inpatient aggression and the living group climate as perceived by the adolescents admitted to a forensic psychiatric treatment unit, are investigated based on carefully registered longitudinal data. Multilevel regression analyses revealed a significant inverse relation between the number and severity of aggressive incidents and the amount of support, as well as with the possibilities of growth perceived by the adolescents. No significant associations of aggression and the perception of repression or atmosphere are found. Our study reveals preliminary evidence for the relation between the prevalence of aggressive incidents and how the adolescents perceive social contextual factors in daily forensic treatment practices. Moreover, preliminary evidence that evidence-based treatment programs and psychiatric care have an important influence on experienced possibilities for growth and support and as such prevent institutional aggression, is found.

The role of psychosocial treatment in decreasing of future violence behavior risk in forensicly treated psychiatric patients

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 783-783
Author(s):  
S. Jonovska ◽  
V.Š. Jengić ◽  
L. Safner ◽  
G. Bošković ◽  
S. Zudenigo
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Violent Behavior ◽  
Psychosocial Treatment ◽  
Violence Risk ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Forensic Treatment ◽  
Aggression Questionnaire ◽  
Schizophrenic Group ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
In The Beginning

The main aim of this study was to establish to what extent psychosocial treatment as a part of complex, multicomponent forensic treatment has an influence on decreasing of the future violence behavior risk in population of forensic psychiatric patients. We examinated 13 patients treated on Department of Forensic Psychiatry of Psychiatric Hospital Rab in Rab, Croatia. 9 of them were males and 4 of them females, 25–60 years of age, all of them were compulsory hospitalized because of committed criminal act connected with violent behavior. All of them have diagnosis of schizophrenic group of diseases with different duration of forensic treatment (from few months to few years). During 2010. all of them participated in psychosocial programe workshops once a week, for 6 months.MethodsViolence Risk Screening-10 (V-RISK-10), subjective measure of the programme chairmen performed in the beginning and in the end of the programme. The Aggression Questionnaire and Daily Spiritual Experience Scale as self-assesment scales were performed in the end of the programme. Results point on decreasing of V-RISK-10 results in the end of the programe in all participants. Interested observation was that mentioned results and those on self-assesment scales were not always been correlated positively. We also proved negative correlation between aggressivity and spirituality. As a conclusion, we have indications to believe that is real to expect that comining psychosocial treatment with targeted psuchopharmacological interventions could leed to decreasing the risk of future violent bihevior in forensicly treated psuchiatric patients.

Clinical Appraisals of Individual Differences in Treatment Responsivity Among Patients With Psychopathy: A Consensual Qualitative Research Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 009385482097059
Author(s):  
Evelyn Klein Haneveld ◽  
Wineke Smid ◽  
Kelsey Timmer ◽  
Jan H. Kamphuis
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Treatment Success ◽  
Patient Characteristics ◽  
Consensual Qualitative Research ◽  
Treatment Team ◽  
Psychopathy Checklist Revised ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric ◽  
Treatment Responsivity

This study addressed which factors expert clinicians consider crucial in successful completion versus dropout in the mandatory forensic psychiatric treatment of psychopathic patients in the Netherlands. Eleven clinicians were interviewed about patient characteristics, treatment (provider) characteristics, and other factors they deemed associated with failure (transfer to another facility) or completion. The interviews were coded using the guidelines of Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR). Overall, extremely high scores on Psychopathy Checklist–Revised (PCL-R) Facets 1 (Deceitful Interpersonal Style) and 2 (Defective Affective Experience) were thought to impede treatment retention, particularly by its negative impact on motivation and therapeutic relationship. Older patients, those with a prosocial network, and/or patients with comorbid borderline traits appeared to fare better. Treatment success was deemed more likely when treatment goals and expectations are stipulated in a concrete fashion, when an extended and gradual resocialization trajectory is offered, and the treatment team is expert, cohesive, and stable.

scholarly journals Criminal Recidivism After Forensic Psychiatric Treatment. A Multicenter Study on the Role of Pretreatment, Treatment‐Related, and Follow‐Up Variables

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1221-1224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Probst ◽  
Adelheid Bezzel ◽  
Michaela Hochstadt ◽  
Christoph Pieh ◽  
Wolfgang Mache
Keyword(s):  
Multicenter Study ◽  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Criminal Recidivism ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric

Court sentences to forensic-psychiatric treatment and imprisonment in Germany: Types of crimes and changes from 1995 to 2009

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 101577
Author(s):  
Hans-Joachim Traub ◽  
Jack Tomlin ◽  
Gerd Weithmann ◽  
Erich Flammer ◽  
Birgit Völlm
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Forensic Psychiatric

Developing a positive living group climate in residential youth care: A single case study

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 709-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Delphine Levrouw ◽  
Rudi Roose ◽  
Peer van der Helm ◽  
Eefje Strijbosch ◽  
Stijn Vandevelde
Keyword(s):  
Single Case ◽  
Youth Care ◽  
Single Case Study ◽  
Group Climate ◽  
Residential Youth Care ◽  
Living Group

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.

Development of an Emergency Psychiatric Treatment Unit

1984 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 1220-1222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary B. Kaskey ◽  
Benjamin M. Ianzito
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Treatment ◽  
Treatment Unit
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