Sexual offenders and violent offenders compose two diverse subgroups of the United States'
offender population, and individuals in these groups face unique challenges with respect to …

Owing to greater awareness of limitations with an overemphasis on client deficits and risk
factors, researchers and clinicians have documented a range of techniques designed to …

BACKGROUND: The interests of users should lead service developments. However, it has
been claimed that forensic mental health services have largely ignored examining users' …

Background There is a wealth of studies of somatic and mental illness among prisoners, but
little on older prisoners and their cognitive aging. Aims Our study examines the cognitive …

The aim of this qualitative study was to explore perspectives on rehabilitation of those
detained in a New Zealand forensic hospital setting. Twenty forensic service users …

Background Suicides are more common in forensic patients than in the general population.
Two reasons for this discrepancy are discussed:(1) Suicides are the consequence of …

The aim of the presented research was to analyze differences in religious strategies of
coping with stress in a group of prison inmates characterized by different levels of the sense …

Objective To compare quality of life (QoL) ratings of long term forensic psychiatric care
patients with the ratings of psychiatric nurses, in which the nurses indicate how they think the …

A substantial group of forensic psychiatric patients require (life) long forensic psychiatric
care. Instead of aiming at re-entry into society, treatment in long-term forensic psychiatric …

Purpose Measuring quality of life (QoL) under incarceration can be used to track successful
rehabilitation and risk of re-offending. However, few studies have measured QoL among …