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Long-Term Forensic Psychiatric Care

Clinical, Ethical and Legal Challenges

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Editors:
  1. Birgit Völlm

    1. Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, University Rostock, Rostock, Germany

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  2. Peter Braun

    1. Pompe Foundation Department LFPC, Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, Zeeland, The Netherlands

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  • Focuses on the legal and ethical challenges posed by long-term detention in forensic settings

  • Describes patient-related and organisational factors associated with length of stay

  • Co-written by actual patients

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Birgit Völlm
    Pages 1-4

  4. Clinical Aspects of Long-Stay

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. Recovery and Strength-Based Practice in Long-Term Forensic Psychiatry

      • Toon Walravens, Joyce Bierbooms, Paul Ter Horst
      Pages 81-102

    3. How to Measure Progress in Forensic Care

      • Harry G. Kennedy, Ken O’Reilly, Mary Davoren, Padraic O’Flynn, Owen P. O’Sullivan
      Pages 103-121

    4. Enhancing Protective Factors in the Management of Violence Risk in Long-Term Psychiatric Care

      • Ana Cristina Neves, Michiel de Vries Robbé, Arjan van den Nagel, Anouk Bohle, Agnes Veldhuizen
      Pages 123-137

    5. Quality of Life in Long-Term Clinical Forensic Psychiatry

      • Ellen C. W. Vorstenbosch, Gemma Escuder-Romeva
      Pages 139-159

    6. Occupational Therapy with Long-Stay Service Users

      • Judith Pettigrew, Roisin O’Regan, Alyssa Kidd, Padraic O’Flynn
      Pages 161-168

    7. Challenges in the Treatment of Sex Offenders

      • Ricardo Barroso, Thierry Pham, Ana M. Greco, Florence Thibaut
      Pages 169-180

    8. Long-Stay and Ageing

      • Claudio Di Lorito
      Pages 181-198

    9. The Experience of Long-Stay in Secure Psychiatric Hospitals in the UK: The Patient Perspective

      • Jessica Holley, Tim Weaver
      Pages 199-217

    10. Forensic Carers and Secure Inpatient Services

      • Sheena Foster, Peter Bates
      Pages 219-231

  5. Service Models and Alternative Provision

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. Long-Term Forensic Psychiatric Care: The Dutch Perspective

      • Marjam Veerle Smeekens, Peter Braun
      Pages 235-250
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About this book

This book provides an overview of forensic psychiatry, focusing on the provision of care in Europe as well as the legal and ethical challenges posed by long-term stays in forensic settings. Forensic psychiatric services provide care and treatment for mentally disordered offenders (MDOs) in secure in-patient facilities as well as in the community. These services are high-cost/low-volume services; they pose significant restrictions on patients and hence raise considerable ethical challenges. There is no agreed-upon standard for length of stay (LoS) in secure settings and patients’ detainment periods vary considerably across countries and even within the same jurisdiction. Thus far, little research has been conducted to identify factors associated with length of stay; consequently, it remains unclear how services should be configured to meet the needs of this patient group. This volume fills some of those gaps. Furthermore, it presents new research on factors associated with length of stay, both patient-related and organisational. Various approaches to the provision of care for long-term patients in different countries are explored, including a few best practise examples in this specific area of psychiatry. The book also addresses the perspective of those working in forensic care by reviewing quality-of-life research and interviews with patients. The authors of this volume come from a range of professional backgrounds, ensuring a certain breadth and depth in the topic discussion, and even includes patients themselves as (co-)authors.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, University Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Birgit Völlm

  • Pompe Foundation Department LFPC, Forensic Psychiatric Hospital, Zeeland, The Netherlands

    Peter Braun

About the editors

Birgit Völlm has been the Medical Director of the Forensic psychiatric hospital and Professor in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Rostock since 2018. Before that she was a Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Nottingham and an Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in the Enhanced Service for Personality Disorders (previously Dangerous & Severe Personality Disorders) at Rampton high secure hospital in the UK. Prof Völlm is a member (previously Chair) of the Board of the Forensic Section of the European Psychiatric Association and the Vice-Chair of the Forensic Section of the World Psychiatric Association. She was one of the experts on the NICE guidance group on the management of violence. Her main research interests include the neurobiology of antisocial personality disorders and social cognition, treatment of personality disorders, service development, comparisons between service delivery in different European countries and ethical issues in forensic psychiatry. She has held national and European grants on long-stay in forensic settings, the effectiveness of Individual Placement Support for forensic patients and on Circles of Support and Accountability for the reintegration of sex offenders into the community. She has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters.

Peter Braun is a psychologist and psychotherapist of the Pompe Foundation which is the forensic service of the Mental Health Organization Pro Persona in the Netherlands. He is also member of the Netherlands Register of Court Experts, member of the Dutch Institution for Psychologists (N.I.P.) and E.M.D.R. trained therapist. He was Chair of the European COST Action IS 1302 concerning a European Research Framework for (longterm) Forensic Psychiatry. He is member of the International Association for Forensic Mental Health Services and Chair of the Special Interest Group of that organization on Longterm Forensic Psychiatry. He is the Head of the Longterm Forensic Psychiatric Services in the Netherlands. He is interested in longterm forensic care and the effects of treatment atmosphere and nursing environment on quality of life and treatment results. He has cooperated in some studies concerning Quality of Life. He wrote a few chapters and articles on longterm forensic care

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Long-Term Forensic Psychiatric Care

  • Book Subtitle: Clinical, Ethical and Legal Challenges

  • Editors: Birgit Völlm, Peter Braun

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12594-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12593-6Published: 27 May 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12596-7Published: 15 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12594-3Published: 16 May 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 343

  • Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Forensic Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law

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