Social Work In Secure Forensic Mental Health Inpatient Services

This book explores the ways in which diversity and experiences of marginalisation are present in forensic mental health care settings around the globe and suggests ways of moving forward. Forensic mental health services around the world provide care for a group of patients that are marginalised in many respects, having experienced childhood adversity and abuse, substance use, serious and chronic mental disorders, poor healthcare education or treatment, inadequate educational opportunities, social isolation, and pervasive forms of stigmatization. On top of these shared experiences of marginalisation, wide diversity exists across patients' socio-demographic, cultural and clinical characteristics. Chapters in this book discuss these crucial and often sensitive problems, such as working with transgender prisoners, the impact of incarceration for children and their families, autism in forensic settings and more. Combining global perspectives from a diverse group of contributors and a wide variety of real-life situations, this book will be essential to all practitioners, researchers and students of forensic mental health.