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Preventing self-injury and suicide in women's prisons / Tammi Walker and Graham Towl ; forword by Toby Harris.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Tammi, author.
- Towl, Graham, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suicide--Prevention.
- Suicide.
- Women prisoners--Suicidal behavior.
- Women prisoners.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (186 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hook, [England] : Waterside Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Examines all aspects of the history, present practices, causes and prevention prospects connected to self-injury and suicide in women's prisons.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright and publication details
- Advance reviews of this book
- Dedication
- A Personal Account from Tracey
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- About the authors
- The author of the Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Suicide and Self-injury of Imprisoned Women and Adolescent Girls
- Introduction
- Suicide and Self-injury
- New Punitiveness and Managerialism
- Mental Health Needs
- Themes and Perspectives: Language
- Themes and Perspectives: Criminal Justice Ideology
- Chapter Summary Points
- Future Directions
- Self-injury and Suicide: Research Informed Change
- Overview
- Definitional Issues
- Definitional concerns in prison-based studies
- Contextual Issues Associated with Self-injury and Suicide
- Individual factors
- Situational factors
- Psychosocial factors
- Prison Service Monitoring and Management of Self-injury and Suicide Up Until 2000
- Strategic Factors in the Year 2000 and Beyond
- Evaluating the Changes
- Self-injury and Suicide Among Imprisoned Women and Adolescent Girls
- Prevalence Rates
- Suicide
- Risk Factors for Self-injury
- Demographic profile
- Clinical factors
- Institutional variables
- Psychological Functions for Self-injury
- Intrapersonal functions
- Interpersonal functions
- Chapter summary points
- Supporting Women and Adolescent Girls with Poly-victimisation Histories in Custody
- Trauma Histories: Poly-victimised Imprisoned Women and Adolescent Girls
- Poly-victimisation
- Effects of pervasive poly-victimisation on health and crime
- Effects of imprisonment on poly-victimised women and adolescent girls
- Supporting women and adolescent girls in prison with poly-victimisation histories
- Conclusion
- Future directions.
- Preventing Self-injury and Suicide
- Moving Away from Using 'At-risk' Strategies
- The Prison Environment
- Reception and first night
- Social intervention
- Mental health treatment
- Purposeful activity
- Bullying and safety
- Psychological Interventions for Women and Adolescent Girls Who Self-injure in Prison
- Options modified dialectical behaviour therapy
- Women Offenders Repeat Self-harm Intervention Pilot II (WORSHIP II)
- Complicating Issues
- Staff Training for Self-injury and Suicide
- Background
- Prison Officer Training
- Continued training and development
- HM Prison Service training programmes for self-injury and suicide 1993 onwards
- Skills-based training on risk management (STORM) for prison staff
- Current framework for training in self-injury and suicide
- Impact on Prison Staff Working with Self-injury and Suicide
- The Aftermath of a Self-inflicted Death in Prison Custody
- Death, Bereavement and the Grief Process
- Suicide bereavement
- Bereavement following a self-inflicted death in prison
- The Coroner Process, Inquest and Verdict
- Self-inflicted Deaths in Prison and their Impact on Families, Prisoners and Staff
- Bereaved families
- Prisoners
- Prison staff
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Procedures Following a Self-inflicted Death in Custody
- Promoting Resilience in Prison Staff
- Appendix
- References
- Index
- Cries For Help: Women Without a Voice, Women's Prisons in the 1970s, Myra Hindley and her Contemporaries
- Mothering Justice: Working with Mothers in Criminal and Social Justice Settings
- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 5, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781910979051
- 1910979058
- 9781910979044
- 191097904X
- OCLC:
- 941066831
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