Working therapeutically with women in secure mental health settings / edited by Nikki Jeffcote and Tessa Watson ; foreword by Jenni Murray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jeffcote, Nikki, 1959-

Watson, Tessa, 1967-

Series:

Forensic focus ; 27.

Forensic focus ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Female offenders--Mental health services.

Female offenders.

Forensic psychiatric nursing.

Mentally ill offenders--Mental health services.

Mentally ill offenders.

Women prisoners--Mental health services.

Women prisoners.

Women prisoners--Mental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (226 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This publication is aimed at practitioners who work with women in secure settings. There is relatively little material available which integrates practice, research and service development issues in this challenging area, and this publication fills an important gap.

Contents:

Working Therapeutically with Women in Secure Mental Health Settings; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; FOREWORD; Introduction; Part I: Theory-building; 1. Thinking about the Needs of Women in Secure Settings; 2. Dangerous Journeys: Women's Pathways into and through Secure Mental Health Services; 3. Women and Offending; 4. Troubled Inside: Vulnerability in Prison; 5. Women and Risk; 6. More Alike than Different: Gender and Forensic Mental Health; Part II: Practice; 7. Working Together Integrated Multi-disciplinary Practice with Women

8. Thinking under Fire: The Challenge for Forensic Mental Health Nurses Working with Women in Secure Care9. Hiding and Being Lost: The Experience of Female Patients and Staff on a Mixed Sex Ward; 10. Sharing Strength, Wisdom, Pain and Loss: A Women's Group in a Medium Secure Setting; 11. A Psychodynamically-orientated Group for Women with Learning Disabilities; Part III: Service Development; 12. The Development of Medium Secure Services for Women; 13. Closing the Gap between Evidence and Practice: The Role of Training in transforming Women's Services; 14. Men, Women and Good Practice

15. A Gender-specific Advocacy Model, or 'I Found My Voice and I Love It!'REFERENCES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; SUBJECT INDEX; AUTHOR INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610267187

9781280267185

1280267186

9781423709978

1423709977

9781846420269

1846420261

OCLC:

567972080