Stahl Online is a one-stop shop, covering everything a mental health professional or teacher will ever need to know about neuropsychopharmacology. Comprehensive and regularly updated, Stahl Online provides full access to the entire current portfolio of books by Dr Stephen M. Stahl.
Stahl Online is a one-stop shop, covering everything a mental health professional or teacher will ever need to know about neuropsychopharmacology. Comprehensive and regularly updated, Stahl Online provides full access to the entire current portfolio of books by Dr Stephen M. Stahl.
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This paper is intended to provide a summary and commentary on the extent of community services for mentally disordered offenders in England and Wales. Our focus on England and Wales is because the different countries of the United Kingdom have devolved legislative and administrative powers so that this paper would – by necessity if a United Kingdom paper – be three times as long so as to include Scottish and Northern Irish law, practice, and policy; Wales is considered alongside England as the two countries are sufficiently similar. We have interpreted “community services” broadly and have included descriptions of court liaison and diversion services, and multiagency risk management services. In other words, we have described, in some form, all of the services that are in place to manage mentally disordered offenders after they have been released from prison, discharged from hospital or diverted from either form of custody to the community.
For psychologists or psychiatrists conducting forensic evaluations, a forensic psychological report is a work product – one of many reports they will author over the course of their careers. Many forensic evaluators conduct a large number of evaluations per year; for example, Colorado state evaluators conduct an average of 144 competency to stand trial (CST) evaluations per year. For psychologists or psychiatrists who author a large volume of evaluations, some cases may seem routine. Evaluators may fall into a pattern in which many evaluations appear mundane and typical.
History may not repeat itself, but there seem to be reverberating themes. One such theme is the challenge of “how” and “where” to manage people who behave in dangerous, scary, or unacceptable ways. Throughout time, these individuals have been placed in institutional settings or facilities; the names of which often belied the philosophical approach popular at the time. Reform schools and correctional institutions were providing discipline, remains because the reality of people who behave in dangerous, scary, or unacceptable ways is much more complex.
