Signs of Resistance? Swedish Probation Officers' Attitudes towards Risk Assessments

Probation Officers' Attitudes Towards Criminal Offenders, the Causes of Crime, and Treatment Programs

An Introduction to Psychiatry for Probation Officers

the man who commits a crime knowing that what he is doing is wrong but nevertheless takes a chance that he will get away with it. From here we passed on to consider the limitations of the help that the psychiatrist and the mental health services can give, realising that to ask for a psychiatric report can never solve the probation officers problem as if by waving a magic wand. Indeed it may rai...

Motivational Interviewing for Probation Officers: Tipping the Balance Toward Change*

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING (Miller & Rollnick, 1991) is a way of talking with people about change that was first developed for the field of addictions but has broadened and become a favored approach for use with populations in a variety of settings (Burke, Arkowitz & Dunn, 2002). It has been introduced to criminal justice in general (Birgden, 2004; McMurran, 2002; Farrall, 2002) and probation ef...

Attitudes towards mode of birth among Swedish midwives.

OBJECTIVE to investigate midwives' attitudes and opinions on mode of birth. DESIGN exploratory descriptive study. Data were collected via study-specific questionnaires during 2006. SETTING southeastern Sweden. PARTICIPANTS all midwives working in two counties. FINDINGS regardless of age, experience and working field, the midwives considered a reasonable caesarean rate to be around 11.5 ...

Swedish general practitioners’ attitudes towards treatment guidelines – a qualitative study

BACKGROUND Drug therapy in primary care is a challenge for general practitioners (GPs) and the prescribing decision is influenced by several factors. GPs obtain drug information in different ways, from evidence-based sources, their own or others' experiences, or interactions with opinion makers, patients or colleagues. The need for objective drug information sources instead of drug industry-pro...