Unit.B.8.3. Forensic Psychiatric/Correctional Career Opportunities

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"Forensic psychiatry, being a relatively new subspecialty and an interface field has, as have all areas at times, been struggling for its own identity. In this process, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry put forward an operational definition of this field:"

"Forensic psychiatry is a subspecialty of psychiatry in which scientific and clinical expertise is applied to legal issues and legal context embracing civil, criminal, correctional, or legislative matters; Forensic Psychiatry should be practiced in accordance with guidelines and ethical principles enunciated by the profession of psychiatry" (American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law and the American Board of Forensic Psychiatry, 1979; cited in Hashman, 1995, p. 98).

Career Path

• Basic General Nursing Degree
• Practicum experiences in undergraduate/graduate degrees in forensic correctional/psychiatric settings.
• Option courses (degree transferable) in forensic psychiatric/correctional nursing.
• Certificate course or programs in Forensic Nursing.

Forensic Employers (Forensic Psychiatric/Correctional Nursing).

United States

Federal Bureau of Prisons
State Hospitals (Forensic)

Canada

Correctional Services of Canada

• Prisons and Regional Psychiatric Centres

Provincial Forensic Services

• Provincial hospitals, general hospitals, community outreach services

Provincial Corrections

• Remands Centres, Correctional Centres, Half Way Houses & Community Outpatient Services

United Kingdom

High Security Psychiatric Service

• Special Hospitals (Ashworth, Rampton, Broadmore, Carstairs)

Prisons and jails

• Community liaisons services
• Regional Secure Units (RSUs)

Australia

• state medium secure forensic unit
• forensic units in psychiatric hospitals (i.e.)James Nash House

Work Settings

• Forensic psychiatric assessment units - may be located in general hospitals or remand centres, jails or prisons.
• Forensic Psychiatric Treatment or Rehabilitative Units- may be located in Special hospital (UK), State Hospitals (US), Provincial Hospitals or Regional Psychiatric Centres (CA), or (AU).

Also forensic mental health nurses work within the correctional setting (assessment and treatment units within the remand centres, correctional centres, state or country jails or federal or state prisons.

(Kent-Wilkinson, 1999)

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"Forensic psychiatry is the psychiatry of people who commit offences. These don't have to be criminal offences and they don't have to be particularly violent offences, although they usually are. Forensic psychiatrists attempt to assess and treat people who because of their offending behaviour have often ended up in prison, medium secure units, or maximum security hospitals" (Adshead, 1997, p. 256).

"Since its emergence over the last two decades forensic psychiatric nursing has had little vision, and has often been led by reactive events" (Robinson, 1998, p. 121).

"There is also much current debate about whether there is such as person as a forensic nurse and what constitutes this. Clearly there are many qualified psychiatric nurses working with MDOs and given that there are over 50 units and health sectors of the prisons, there are more than enough to constitute special consideration and career pathways" (Robinson, 1998, p. 121).

"The ever growing contribution of articles to international/ national journals and the stream of high quality papers at conferences is testament to the developing profession of the role of the forensic nurse. Working across cultures and within multidisciplinary settings needs to be acknowledged" (Robinson, 1998, p. 121).

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From 'forensic presentations' in the forensic sourcebooks the following presentations have been selected for this unit:

Unit.B.8.3. Forensic Psychiatric/Correctional Career Opportunities

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From 'forensic experts' in the forensic sourcebooks the following panel of experts has been selected for this unit:

Unit.B.8.3. Forensic Psychiatric/Correctional Career Opportunities

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