The path of compassion in forensic psychiatry

Abstract

We aimed to deepen our understanding of the concept of compassion in caring for patients with mental illness in forensic psychiatric inpatient care settings. Qualitative analysis was used to illuminate themes from interviews conducted with 13 nurses in a prior study. The audiotaped interviews, which had been transcribed verbatim, were analyzed following a hermeneutic approach. Results revealed the main theme of "being compassionate in forensic psychiatry is an emotional journey" and three themes. Overall, compassion was seen as a changeable asset, but also an obstacle when absent; sensitivity to one's own vulnerability is necessary to overcome that obstacle.

Psychological and Legal Aspects of Verification and Detection of Lies during Polygraph Examination

“…Also the following facts can be characteristic signs of lying of the interlocutor: reporting by a person of different facts on one occasion; uncertainty, vagueness of information contained in the voiced version of the narrator; the presence of coincidences of the smallest details in the stories of different people about the same thing; "Letting out" in statements that indicate the denial of the voiced details of the narrator's version; the presence of sound gaps and an increase in the number of word-parasites; accompanying the story with a poor emotional background (schematicity, facelessness); persistence of the narrator in the truth of his words; evasion of answering direct questions; concealment of obvious facts that could not be unknown (Hamlin, et al, 2020;Hammarstrom, et al, 2020;Rollero, 2017;Shaw, 2020;Khomulenko, 2012).…”

“…Boiko-Buzyl (Boiko-Buzyl, 2021), T. Brennen and S. Magnussen (Brennen & Magnussen, 2020), B. DePaulo, J. Lindsay, B. Malone, L. Muhlenbruck, K. Charlton and C. Harris (B. DePaulo & C. Harris, 2003), B. Khomulenko (Khomulenko, 2012), M. Kuzmenko and I. Sitkar (Kuzmenko &Sitkar, 2020), B. Neubauer, C. Witkop andL. Varpio (Neubauer &Varpio, 2019), C. De Rollero and N. Piccoli (De Rollero & Piccoli, 2017) devoted their works to the issue of psychological determination of deception and lies; after all, M. Acklin and J. Velasquez (Acklin & Velasquez, 2021), I. Hamlin, P. Taylor and L. Cross (Hamlin & Cross, 2020), L. Hammarstrom, D. Andreassen, O. Hellzen and M. Haggstron (Hammarstrom & Haggstron, 2020), W. Iacono and G. Ben-Shakhar (Iacono & Ben-Shakhar, 2019), J. Kamorowski, Karl Ask and M. Jelícic (Kamorowski & Corine de Ruiter, 2021), S. Samuel, H. Thapliyal and P. Kacker (Samuel & Kacker, 2019), K. Shapoval (Shapoval, 2020), O. Tsilmak (Tsilmak, 2019, pp. 201-209) conducted their research on the psychological and legal aspects of the study of lie detection including the use of a polygraph.…”

Offender Recovery. Forensic Patient Perspectives on Long-Term Personal Recovery Processes

“…The elements and factors pointed out by the informants also correspond with the CHIME model maintaining: The elements in CHIME are crucial in recovery processes and have been experienced and described by a large number of service users [9]. The quality of the relation between patient and significant others, not least professionals, has also been identified as a crux in personal recovery processes [16,[39][40][41]. The professionals play an important role as carriers of hope and optimism over time, which enhances the patient's opportunities to create new narratives and identities.…”

Meanings of carers’ lived experience of “regulating oneself” in forensic psychiatry

“…Processing a spoken emotion is crucial to apprehend the emotions of others and is important for developing empathy, which may potentially curb violence and aggressive behaviour (Leshem et al, 2020 ). Emotions that stem from being confronted by patients’ expressions of suffering force carers to unravel and understand these expressions to give an adequate response based on compassion rather than abandoning the patient in a time of need (Hammarström et al, 2020 ). To deal and cope with these stressful situations, carers use the strategy of controlling their own emotions, regulating themselves to avoid acting on the initial feeling of frustration, fear or anger, remaining in the situation and getting a grip on themselves to feel emotionally ready to handle the situation and patient (Hammarström et al, 2019 ).…”