Preventing Suicide and Other Self-Harm in Prison

ISBN-13: 9781403988362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 266 str.

Greg E. Dear

Opis

The high rate of suicide and self-harm in prison is of international concern. This book gives a comprehensive overview of attempts to minimize the incidence of self-harming behaviour in custodial settings. Expert contributors from nine countries offer a global perspective for prison workers, prisoners, coroners and observers of the justice system.

Recenzje

'It is a long time since I felt genuinely excited by a book on such a sombre topic. However this edited volume is a model of its kind in demonstrating how systematic scientific analysis can be combined with commitment, creativity and the insights of experience in providing positive ways forward in an area that has rarely furnished grounds for optimism...this well-crafted set of contributions...is both practical and thought-provoking, and deserves to be seen as essential reading for anyone concerned with prisons.' - Adrian Needs, University of Portsmouth (formerly of HM Prison Service), UK

Spis treści

List of Figures and Tables Preface Notes on Contributors PART I: THEORETICAL AND RESEARCH FOUNDATIONS Psychological Perspectives on Intentional Self-harm; L.Pollock & J.M.G.Williams The Role of the Prison Environment in Prison Suicide and Prisoner Distress; A.Liebling The Likely Role of Criminogenic Factors in Prisoners' Self-harming Behaviour; G.J.Hall, S.Fisher & G.E.Dear PART II: CLINICAL STRATEGIES Screening Prisoners for Suicide Risk; E.Blaauw & A.J.F.M.Kerkhof Clinical and Management Response to Incidents of Non-fatal Self-harm in Prison; G.E.Dear Treatment Needs of Prisoners who are at Risk of Self-harming; G.E.Dear A Structured Intervention for Prisoners who are at Risk of Self-harming; L.Eccleston & L.Sorbello Reducing Suicidal Behaviours in Custodial Settings: Administrative Challenges; A.Ivanoff & H.Schmidt, III PART III: BROAD-BASED PREVENTION STRATEGIES Improving Staff-prisoner Relationships; A.Liebling & S.Tait Minimising Violence and Intimidation among Prisoners; G.Brigden & K.Edgar Enhancing Prisoners' Coping Skills; G.E.Dear, J.Borrill, T.Kirschner, M.Forns, M.Daigle & F.H.Biggam Managing Prisoners with Mental Health Problems and Other Special Needs; R.L.Bonner The Role of Peer Support in Reducing Self-harm in Prisons; L.Snow & K.Biggar Suicide Prevention and Designing Safer Prison Cells; L.M.Hayes PART IV: SYSTEMS ISSUES Self-harm of Juvenile and Young Adult Prison Inmates: Conditions and Consequences; W.Greve, D.Hosser & C.Bosold Gender Issues and Considerations for Preventing Self-harm in Women's Prisons; O.Themeli Responding to a Self-inflicted Death in Custody: Support Services and Postvention; J.Borrill & J.Hall Responding to Suicides in Custody: Review Processes; L.M.Hayes Ethical and Legal Issues for Mental Health Professionals Working with Suicidal Prisoners; A.Allan, W.Packman, G.E.Dear, T.O'Connor Pennuto, J.Orthwein & B.Bongar PART IV: INTEGRATION The Need for an Integrated System to Minimise the Incidence of Suicide and Other Self-harm in Prison; G.E.Dear References Index

O autorze

ALFRED ALLAN Professor of Clinical and Forensic Psychology, Edith Cowan University, Australia FIONA H. BIGGAM Chartered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, State Hospital, Carstairs, and Lecturer in Psychology, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK KATHY BIGGAR, MBE HM Prison Service's Safer Custody Group, UK, and formerly the English Probation Service, UK ERIC BLAAUW Senior Researcher in Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry, University Erasmus Medical Centre, The Netherlands BRUCE BONGAR Calvin Professor of Psychology, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology and Consulting Professor Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA RONALD L. BONNER Clinical Psychologist, USA JO BORRILL Research Programme Manager, Safer Custody Group, National Offender Management Service for England and Wales, UK CHRISTIANE BOSOLD Researcher, Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Germany GILL BRIGDEN Director of the Violence Reduction Strategy at the HM Prison Service Safer Custody Group, UK MARC DAIGLE Professor, University of Quebec and Researcher at the Centre for Research and Intervention on Suicide and Euthanasia and the Research Centre of Philippe-Pinel Institute, Canada LYNN ECCLESTON Lecturer, Forensic Psychology, University of Melbourne, Australia KIMMETT EDGAR Head of Research, Prison Reform Trust, UK SOFIA FISHER Psychologist at the Offender Services Branch of the Department of Justice, Australia MARIA FORNS Professor of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain WERNER GREVE Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Hildeshein, Germany GUY J. HALL Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Murdoch University, Australia JENNY HALL Policy Team of the Safer Custody Group, UK LINDSAY M. HAYES National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, USA DANIELA HOSSER Scientific Vice-Director, Criminological Research Institute, Hanover, Germany and Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, University of Brunswick, Germany ANDRE IVANOFF Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Columbia University, USA J.F.M. KERKHOF Professor of Clinical Psychology, Vrije University, The Netherlands TERESA KIRSCHNER Professor in Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain ALISON LIEBLING Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice and Director, Institute of Criminology's Prisons Research Centre, University of Cambridge, UK TRACY O'CONNOR PENNUTO Doctoral student, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology and Golden Gate University School of Law, USA JENNIFER ORTHWEIN Pacific Graduate School of Psychology and Golden Gate University School of Law, USA WENDY PACKMAN Associate Professor of Psychology, Pacific Graduate School of Psychology, USA LESLIE POLLOCK Conjoint Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Newcastle, Australia and Clinical Director of the Centre for Psychotherapy at James Fletcher Hospital, Newcastle, Australia HENRY SCHMIDT, III Clinical Director of the Washington State Juvenile Rehabilitary.