Forensic mental health

Forensic Mental Health Services Managed Care Network

Payment by results in forensic mental health.

Forensic mental health services are low-volume, high-cost services. Payment by results (PbR) is the UK s latest attempt to improve efficiency and controls pending behaviours within the secure services. This article discusses the utility of the PbR mechanic in forensic mental health. It explores PbR implementation in non-forensic mental health settings, similar funding processes internationally,...

Animal Maltreatment: Forensic Mental Health Issues and Evaluations.

Animal maltreatment, typically under the rubric of “animal cruelty,” sometimes enters the psychiatric literature as a manifestation of psychopathology or in relationship to aggression against humans. In this book, animal maltreatment is cast more broadly to include physical abuse, sexual abuse, hoarding, and neglect of animals. Rather than animal abuse or cruelty, deliberate physical abuse is d...

Quality and quality improvement in forensic mental health evaluations.

Despite the growing attention to quality and quality improvement in health care in the United States, forensic psychiatry has yet to incorporate relevant developments and information and make quality an important item on the agenda. This article reviews the empirical research regarding the perceived quality of forensic evaluations, which has primarily examined criminal rather than civil forensi...

Forensic child and Adolescent Psychiatry and mental health in Europe

Editorial The medical and educational interests of young people who find themselves in the police and justice systems are the main aims of the European Association for Forensic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychology and other involved professions, EFCAP-EU, which was officially founded in 1997. Two years earlier the first youth forensic symposium was held at the ESCAP Congress in Utrecht, ...