What can be done to improve outcomes for prisoners with a dual diagnosis?
Advances in Dual Diagnosis, < a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/add/9/1" > Volume 9, Issue 1 < /a > , Page 14-25, February 2016. < br/ > Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on offenders with a dual diagnosis and discuss how prison-based services can improve to better meet the needs of prisoners with co-occurring substance misuse and mental health disorders. Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive lit erature search of PsycINFO, JSTOR, PubMed and Google Scholar, reviewing international studies on dual diagnosis amongst offender and community samples spanning the last three...
Source: Advances in Dual Diagnosis - January 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
Dual diagnoses among detained female systematic offenders
Advances in Dual Diagnosis, < a href="http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/add/9/1" > Volume 9, Issue 1 < /a > , Page 7-13, February 2016. < br/ > Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the prevalence of psychopathology including substance use disorders in a sample of detained female systematic offenders. Design/methodology/approach – All case files of female systematic offenders who had been subjected to a special court order for s ystematic offenders in the period 2004-2014 were studied. A total of 81 fairly complete case files were selected for the study. These were all systematic offenders as they had...
Source: Advances in Dual Diagnosis - January 20, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research
