Do women need special secure services?

Bartlett, Annie; Hassell, Yonette

doi:10.1192/apt.7.4.302

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“…This is resonant of clinical observations by Watson and Jeffcote (2004), who describe ‘one picture of what women wanted and needed, and another of what [mental health] services were able to offer them’ (p. 11). Bartlett and Hassell (2001) highlighted the dangers of ‘hierarchical’ services ‘feeding into established feelings of powerlessness and exacerbating current illness behaviour’ (p. 307).…”

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Women and firesetting: A qualitative analysis of context, meaning, and development

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“…Hence, services are frequently responsible for compounding the past experiences of disempowerment of many service users rather than providing opportunities of acknowledgement, understanding and change.' (Williams et al, 2004: 32) Research has found that women in residential secure services are prescribed more psychoactive drugs than men, and in the case of sedatives and anti-depressants, five times more (Bartlett and Hassell, 2001;Powell, 2001). Women are often believed to contribute to staff stress and burnout due to more frequent incidents of aggression and self harm (Fish, 2000).…”

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Women who use secure services: applying the literature to women with learning disabilities

Fish

2013

The Journal of Forensic Practice

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Acknowledgements: Thank you to my PhD supervisors, Professor Carol Thomas and Dr Celia Roberts for their comments on earlier drafts of this literature review. 2 AbstractPurpose: This paper reviews research of relevance to women with learning disabilities, focusing in particular on literature which is applicable to women with learning disabilities who use forensic services. Approach:Research involving women with learning disabilities over the past 30 years was sought out and reviewed, and literature relating to women living in locked wards (including those without learning disabilities) was focused upon. Related themes such as the BPD diagnosis, self injury, and aggression are explored. Findings:The author found very little research relating to women with learning disabilities who use secure services, particularly which included quotes from the women themselves. Research implications:The author recommends that more research in this area is needed, primarily research which includes the voices of women service users themselves.Value: This paper will be relevant to all staff who work with women in secure services.

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“…This reality is often constructed as part of a biological, often medical or social science (Kirk & Hutchins 1999). For example, the distinction made between women who are conceived as ‘mad’ and men who are conceived as ‘bad’ in forensic psychiatry is an example of the medicalization of the felt or experienced consequences of traumatic life events, socio‐economic factors and isolation (Bartlett & Hassell 2001).…”

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“…However, the need for specific mental health services for women has long been contested. Often polarized positions are taken over the risk and benefits of services remaining mainstream and inclusive, or separate, segregated and specialist (Bartlett & Hassel 2001).…”

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Bordering on insanity: misnomer, reviewing the case of condemned women

Warne

McAndrew

2007

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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In the UK, there have been calls to develop gendered specific mental health services for women in an attempt to ensure privacy and dignity are achieved as and when women come into contact with services. This is a largely rhetorical policy objective. There are more fundamental factors affecting women's experience of mental health services that need addressing. This paper explores these issues in the context of mental health care for women who have been 'given' the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Borderline personality disorder effects 2% of the adult population, 75-90% of those diagnosed being women. This diagnosis continues to present considerable conceptual and therapeutic challenges for all of those involved in mental health services and it remains a categorical label that evokes a wide range of conscious and unconscious responses in mental health nurses. The paper argues that mental health nurses need to recognize the defence mechanisms involved in working with individuals who are often difficult to work with. It is only when mental health nurses can embrace and acknowledge the person in the context of their life, that the pejorative and disabling consequences of the BPD label can be eliminated, ensuring the individual's story is heard and not that which is often a pre-constituted account accompanying this diagnosis.

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Do women need special secure services?

Cited by 37 publications

References 20 publications

Women and firesetting: A qualitative analysis of context, meaning, and development

Women and firesetting: A qualitative analysis of context, meaning, and development

Women who use secure services: applying the literature to women with learning disabilities

Bordering on insanity: misnomer, reviewing the case of condemned women

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