Containment in the Community

by Rubitel, Alla; Reiss, David

• ISBN13: 9781855758483
• ISBN10: 1855758482
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-28
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

The primary focus of this volume is to support practice by individuals and teams that deal directly either with individuals diagnosed with mental disorder or with those whose presentation causes the same dilemmas for practitioners. The chapters draw on experience gained across a wide spectrum of settings: within the NHS, the National Offender Management Services (NOMS) and the wider criminal justice services, as well as various services for children, young people and their families. The subject matter of this text covers anti social, offending and challenging behaviors: in particular behaviors that create unusual levels of anxiety in practitioners or the public. Valuable insights are offered, with examples, into ways of thinking about these problems and practical guidance is offered on the way professional teams and the individuals within them can develop and maintain effective work. While not explicitly focused on those identified as having a personality disorder, the material concerns individuals with psychological difficulties that are pervasive, enduring and which have a particularly intrusive impact on caring staff members working with them.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
About the Editors and Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xvii
Foreword	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. xxv
Working with hard-to-reach patients in difficult places: a democratic therapeutic community approach to consultation	p. 1
The lived experience of rehabilitation work with forensic patients in the community	p. 23
Sustainable organizations in health and social care: developing a ôteam mindö	p. 45
Bearing and not bearing unbearable realities: the limits of understanding	p. 69
Thinking about antisocial behaviour and mental health in Youth Offending Services	p. 87
An alternative to ôslappingö: multi-agency working with excluded young people exhibiting antisocial behaviour	p. 103
Managing difficulty: a journey with a murderous adolescent by a CAMHS psychiatrist and team	p. 125
The interface between forensic psychiatry and general adult psychiatry	p. 139
Multi-agency public protection arrangements (MAPPA): can we work with them?	p. 161
Gut feelings	p. 187
Work discussion group for trainees working in forensic settings	p. 203
Valuing the splits and preventing violence	p. 217
The healthy and the unhealthy organization: how we help teams to remain effective?	p. 237
Index	p. 261
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