Essays about: "Forensic psychiatry"
Found 4 essays containing the words Forensic psychiatry.
-
1. Mentally ill offenders and accountability in Sweden
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaperAbstract : Introduction In Sweden all offenders are convicted of their crime, regardless if suffering from mental illness. The penalty can however be forensic psychiatric care instead of prison if the offender suffers from a severe mental disturbance (allvarlig psykisk störning). READ MORE
-
2. Antisocial behaviors and substance abuse among mentally illoffenders - an undesirable role in time of treatment?
University essay from Örebro universitet/Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaperAbstract : Introduction Offenders who suffer from a severe mental illness are sentenced to forensic-psychiatric careinstead of imprisonment. A severe mental illness is a legal term determined by type anddegree of the psychiatric illness. Forensic-psychiatric care ends when signs of severe mentalillness is no longer present. READ MORE
-
3. Comparing threat and physical violence perpetrated towards staff between two forensic settings : a cross-sectional study
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för samhällsvetenskapAbstract : This study was conducted within two forensic settings, the high security correctional facility Saltviksanstalten, and the forensic psychiatric institution Karsudden hospital. 66 staff members from Saltvik and 39 from Karsudden participated by answering a questionnaire about threat and physical violence perpetrated towards them by inmates/patients. READ MORE
-
4. DBT as a general approach in forensic psychiatry. : - Evaluation of patients' Global Assessment of Functioning at the Clinic of Forensic Psychiatry in Växjö.
University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, psykologi och idrottsvetenskap, PPIAbstract : .... READ MORE
