Diversity and Marginalisation in Forensic Mental Health Care

by Jack Tomlin (Editor), Birgit Völlm (Editor)

Overview

This book explores the ways in which diversity and experiences of marginalisation are present in forensic mental health care settings around the globe and suggests ways of moving forward.

Forensic mental health services provide care for a group of patients who are marginalised in several respects. Many have experienced childhood adversity and abuse, substance use, serious and chronic mental disorders, poor healthcare education or treatment, inadequate educational opportunities, social isolation, and pervasive forms of stigmatization. On top of these individual experiences of marginalisation, wide diversity exists across patients’ socio-demographic, cultural, and clinical characteristics. Chapters in this book discuss these crucial and often sensitive problems, such as working with transgender prisoners, the impact of incarceration for children from non-white backgrounds, cultural and linguistic diversity in forensic settings, and more.

Combining global perspectives, current evidence and case studies, this book will be of interest to patients, carers, practitioners, researchers, and students of forensic mental health.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000608731
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/19/2022
Series:	International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jack Tomlin is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich, United Kingdom. He has studied, taught, and researched crime and mental health in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Birgit Völlm is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Director of the Hospital of Forensic Psychiatry at Rostock University Medical Center. She is also Chair of the Forensic Section of the World Psychiatric Association.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Professor Harry Kennedy

Part One: Introduction

1. Marginalisation and Diversity in Forensic Mental Health Care: An introduction

Dr Jack Tomlin

Prof Birgit Völlm

2. The United States Criminal Justice System: The Experience of Racially Marginalized People

Dr Brittany Wells

Dr Antoinette Kavanaugh

Part Two: Marginalised and Diverse Social Characteristics

3. Intersectional Inequalities and Women in Secure Settings

Dr Jayne Taylor

Professor Tammi Walker

4. Transitional Spaces: Working with Transgender Prisoners in the United Kingdom

Jessica Collier

Dr Rebecca Lockwood

Dr Frances Maclennan

5. Children in Custody: Exploring the Impact of Incarceration for Children and Their Families in the Context of Wider Marginalization and Oppression

Dr Celia Sadie

Dr Clare Holt

Andrez Harriott

Sophie D’Souza

Javel Watt

6. Foreign Nationals in Forensic Care: A German Perspective

Prof. Thomas Ross

Dr María Isabel Fontao

Dr Annette Opitz-Welke

Dr Jan Bulla

7. Fathers in Forensic Mental Health Services

Dr Sara Morgan

Dr Leigh Gale

Dr Christopher Hartwright

Dr Michelle Wells

Part Three: Marginalised and Diverse Clinical Characteristics

8. Autism in Forensic Settings

Emma Longfellow

Julia Skelding

9. Learning Disability and Forensic Mental Health

Julia Skelding

Emma Longfellow

10. The problematic nature of transitions amongst adolescents with multiple and complex needs in secure care: An overview of institutional transitions

Dr Maria Livanou

Dr Vivek Furtado

11. "Long-Stay" Patients in Forensic Mental Health

Prof. Birgit Völlm

Part Four: Developing Responsive Interventions and Models of Care

12. A Tripartite Model of Cultural, Clinical and Operational Governance in the Planning and Delivery of Culturally Informed Care for Indigenous Māori Forensic Mental Health Service Users

Dr James Cavney

13. The Elders Project: Bringing Black African-Caribbean Collectivism in From the Outside

Beresford Dawkins

Dawn M Sutherland

Dr Kimberly Sham Ku

Patrick Bennett

Dr Abdullah Mia

14. Working in Multicultural Forensic Settings: An Integrated Model of Assessment

Dr Stephane M Shepherd

Dr Mary O. Madu

Part Five: Communicating with Marginalised Groups

15. The Individual as a Marginalised Cohort in Secure and Forensic Mental Health Inpatient Settings in the UK

Dr Sarah Markham

16. Including Older Forensic Service Users in Research

Dr Renske Visser

Dr Janet Parrott

Dr Fiona Houben

Prof. Douglas MacInnes

17. Men in ‘Limbo’: Masculinities in Medium Secure Care in Scotland

Dr Christine Haddow

18. Carers and Forensic Services: Towards Carers Peer Support

Karen Machin

Shelagh Musgrave

Karen Persaud

Dr Julie Ridley

Part Six: Conclusion

19. Conclusion: Pulling towards justice

Dr Jack Tomlin

Prof. Birgit Völlm

Editorial Reviews

"This collection is eye-opening, accessible and pioneering. An invaluable toolkit for anybody interested in criminal justice and mental health."

David Lammy, MP; Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in the United Kingdom

"Justice is a key concept in medical ethics, with respect for justice identified as one of four principles of bioethics. This timely book provides a welcome review of how systemic injustices can affect patients and staff in forensic services. The editors have brought together a range of rich and thoughtful chapters which should make forensic practitioners question themselves about whether their services always act justly; and how forensic services can be more respectful of diversity and justice."

Dr Gwen Adshead, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist at Broadmoor Hospital, UK

"An intellectual entertainment was defined by Lord Reith as educating, informing and entertaining. Science and medicine do not fare well as entertainments, but entertainment and literary criticism do not fare well as nostrums for life shortening illnesses. In this book, Tomlin and Völlm give fair and equal hearings to both. The reader will benefit from the choice."

Prof. Harry Kennedy, Clinical Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Executive Clinical Director National Forensic Mental Health Service in Ireland

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