Risk and protection: the discourse of confinement in contemporary mental health policy

Moon, Graham

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“…Public discourses often conflate 'madness' with high risk, feeding public perceptions of a growing problem of violence and assault and the need to maintain safety and security 6 (critiqued by: Moon, 2000;Jeffers, 1991;Morrison, Morman, Bonner, Taylor, Abraham, & Lathan, 2002;Trenoweth, 2003;Cowman & Bowers, 2008;Deacon, 2004). Aggressive behaviour can also lead to costs from workers' compensation, insurance, and repairing damaged property (Meehan et al, 2006) which further motivates health care institutions to show that they are exercising risk governance.…”

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Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards

Curtis

Gesler

Wood

et al. 2013

Social Science & Medicine

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'Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards.', Social science medicine., 97 . pp. 201-209. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10. 1016/j.socscimed.2013.06.015 Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Social science medicine. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A denitive version was subsequently published in Social science medicine, 97, 2013, 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.06.015 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. landscapes. There were also more subtle implications, partly relating to 'Panopticist' theories about how the institution uses technical safety to supervise its own mechanisms, through the observation of staff behaviour as well as patients and visitors. Furthermore, staff seemed to feel that in relying on technical safety measures they were, to a degree, divesting themselves of human responsibility for risks they are required to manage. However, their critical assessment showed their concerns about how this might conflict with a more therapeutic approach and they contemplated ways that they might be able to engage more effectively with patients without the imposition of technical safety measures. These findings advance our thinking about the construction of therapeutic landscapes in theory and in practice.4

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Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards

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“…Beds in medium secure units are logjammed, and relations with general adult services increasingly fraught with disputes over resources and responsibilities. Despite a remarkable investment in buildings, and the 300% growth of the forensic specialty (Goldberg, 2006), offending behaviour by individuals with mental illness shows no sign of decline, either in terms of prison numbers (at record high levels in the UK) or the countless demands for risk assessment (Duggan, 1997;Moon, 2000).…”

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Forensic psychiatry and general psychiatry: re-examining the relationship

Turner¹,

Salter²

2008

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Something is going wrong with forensic psychiatry, as a concept and as a service. Beds in medium secure units are logjammed, and relations with general adult services increasingly fraught with disputes over resources and responsibilities. Despite a remarkable investment in buildings, and the 300% growth of the forensic specialty (Goldberg, 2006), offending behaviour by individuals with mental illness shows no sign of decline, either in terms of prison numbers (at record high levels in the UK) or the countless demands for risk assessment (Duggan, 1997; Moon, 2000).

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“…Wolff (2005) and Moon (2000) argue that the asylum has been replaced by a fragmented, dislocated world of bedsits, housing projects, day centres or, increasingly, prisons and the criminal justice system. This shift has been termed 'transinstitutionalisation'.…”

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Using Simon'sGoverning through crimeto explore the development of mental health policy in England and Wales since 1983

Cummins

2012

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law

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Risk and protection: the discourse of confinement in contemporary mental health policy

Cited by 75 publications

References 25 publications

Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards

Compassionate containment? Balancing technical safety and therapy in the design of psychiatric wards

Forensic psychiatry and general psychiatry: re-examining the relationship

Using Simon'sGoverning through crimeto explore the development of mental health policy in England and Wales since 1983

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