The Tree of Discovery along with other artwork created by service users at Guild Lodge was recently highly commended by UK art charity Koestler Trust. The charity specialises in an art awards scheme for offenders and secure mental health patients across the country and sees thousands of people submitting artwork every year. Artwork often forms part of the therapeutic activity to help service users explore and articulate their feelings and the Occupational Therapy service at Guild Lodge delivers regular sessions that can be attended on a drop in basis.
Building relationships and effective treatment plans is the key to caring for the men behind the imposing walls of England’s most famous psychiatric hospital. In a pretty English village in the leafy, affluent royal county of Berkshire live some of the most complex and high-risk mental health patients in the country. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens details for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you requesting.
A scheme headed by Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) to help people’s mental health in magistrates and crown court settings in North London has received national acclaim for its work in cutting crime and turning people’s lives around.
Positive behavioural support (PBS) is a proactive approach to managing challenging behaviour. Staff in a forensic mental health service were provided training in PBS. The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of training by measuring changes to staff confidence and attributions for challenging behaviour before training, post training and at six-month follow-up. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - You can request a copy of this article by replying to this email. Please ensure you are clear which article you are requesting.
Street Triage is a collaborative service between mental health workers and police which aims to improve the emergency response to individuals experiencing crisis, but peer reviewed evidence of the effectiveness of these services is limited. We examined the design and potential impact of two services, along with factors that hindered and facilitated the implementation of the services.
Psychological Assessment28.8 (Aug 2016): 871-884.
The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) has been widely employed in correctional settings as a screening tool to assess inmates’ risk for committing various types of institutional misconduct. Evaluations have generally found the PAI scales Antisocial Features (ANT), Aggression (AGG), and the Violence Potential Index (VPI) to be modestly related to institutional misbehavior, thus supporting its construct validity. The current study provides the most comprehensive examination of the predictive and incremental validity of the PAI and its subscales among a large sample of imprisoned offenders to date. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology125.6 (Aug 2016): 811-817.
Advanced statistical modeling has become a prominent feature in psychological science and can be a useful approach for representing the neural architecture linked to psychopathology. Psychopathy, a disorder characterized by dysfunction in interpersonal-affective and impulsive-antisocial domains, is associated with widespread neural abnormalities. Several imaging studies suggest that underlying structural deficits in paralimbic regions are associated with psychopathy. Although these studies are useful, they make assumptions about the organization of the brain and its relevance to individuals displaying psychopathic features. Capitalizing on statistical modeling, in the present study (N = 254), we used latent-variable methods to examine the structure of gray-matter volume in male offenders, and assessed the latent relations between psychopathy and gray-matter factors reflecting paralimbic and nonparalimbic regions. Results revealed good fit for a 4-factor gray-matter paralimbic model and these first-order factors were accounted for by a superordinate paralimbic “system” factor. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.