Meeting the health care needs of the new woman inmate: a national survey of prison practices

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This article evaluates health care personnel and services in state and federal prisons for women. The authors, maintaining women inmates are older, tend to be minorities, and most likely to be substance abusers than in the past, argues prison health care personnel and services are not adequately prepared to meet the health demands of the new demographic of women prisoners.

Health aspects, Care and treatment, Evaluation, Demographic aspects, Women prisoners, Prison hospitals

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Age, gender, and treatment attendance among forensic psychiatric outpatients

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This study uses medical records of forensic psychiatric outpatients to investigate the relationship between age, gender, and commitment to treatment participation. Results indicate that female patients had higher rates of absenteeism than men regardless of age, but the frequency of missed appointments declined with age in both groups.

Psychological aspects, Statistical Data Included, Patient compliance, Psychotherapy patients, Sex differences (Psychology), Age (Psychology), Age differences (Psychology), Risk-taking (Psychology), Risk taking, Forensic psychiatry, Impulse, Impulsivity

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Forensic practices in the helping professions: advocate and adversary roles as a threat to therapeutic alliances and fiduciary relations

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The impact of the adversary system on forensic social work is analyzed. The challenges that the forensic setting presents to the therapeutic and trusting relationships that are central to social work are discussed.

Social aspects, Criminals, Social work with criminals, Social work, Adversary system (Law), Adversary system

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