Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities, Third Edition

American Psychiatric Association

2016
153 Pages
Editorial Reviews

ISBN 978-0-89042-674-6
Item #2674

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Editorial Reviews

The long-awaited report of the APA's Work Group to Revise the APA Guidelines on Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities, Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities comes at a time of growing incarceration rates, more rigid sentencing policies, harsher sanctions, and tougher public attitudes toward crime. The result is a near-doubling of the incarcerated population since the first report was issued in 1989 and a significant increase of inmates with serious mental health issues. The work group members address the implications of this troubling state of affairs for psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners who diagnose and treat within the correctional environment.

On the basis of extensive input from multiple sources and perspectives, they have developed clear guidelines that equip clinicians to navigate the special challenges they face. This edition has been thoroughly updated and is structured to flow from the foundational principles that govern the delivery of psychiatric care in correctional facilities, to the guidelines for screening, referral, evaluation, treatment, and community reentry planning, to special applications of the principles and guidelines to specific disorders/ syndromes, patient populations, housing locations, treatment modalities, and inmate special needs.

Readers will find the book well written, with clear guidance for the clinician, as well as challenges to think beyond the needs of individual patients to the larger relationship between mental illness and incarceration.

Approximately three of every four incarcerated people with a serious mental illness have a co-occurring substance use disorder, complicating both diagnosis and treatment. The book offers strategies for treating co-occurring disorders and explores the need for evidence-based screening tools.
Because some inmate populations have unique evaluation and treatment needs because of their disorders, demographics, or other characteristics, separate sections are devoted to women; youths in adult correctional facilities; geriatrics; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients; veterans; and patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
New management and programmatic topics include hospice, mental illness and segregation, seclusion and restraint, telepsychiatry, and the spiritual lives of inmates.
The appendix is a valuable resource that includes a selection of APA position statements on topics relevant to psychiatric services in correctional settings, such as capital punishment, access to care for transgender and gender-variant individuals, and the adjudication of youths as adults in the criminal justice system.

Correctional psychiatry is an evolving field, and serious questions remain. The work group sees an expanded role for clinicians as physician leaders, managers, and directors, more effectively advocating for their patients and helping to shape optimal care delivery systems that empower patients and support successful transition back to the community. Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities provides the current knowledge and professional support clinicians need to meet these challenges.

Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Overview
Clarification of Terms
A Road Map
PART 1: Principles Governing the Delivery of Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities
PART 2: Guidelines for Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities
PART 3: Special Applications of the Principles and Guidelines
References
Appendixes: Position Statements and Resource Document of the American Psychiatric Association
Appendix 1: Position Statement on Access to Comprehensive Psychiatric Assessment and Integrated Treatment, September 2009
Appendix 2: Position Statement on Use of the Concept of Recovery, July 2005
Appendix 3: Position Statement on Adjudication of Youths as Adults in the Criminal Justice System, December 2005
Appendix 4: Position Statement on Mentally Ill Prisoners on Death Row, December 2005
Appendix 5: Position Statement on Use of Jails to Hold Persons Without Criminal Charges Who Are Awaiting Civil Psychiatric Hospital Beds, July 2007
Appendix 6: Resource Document: The Use of Restraint and Seclusion in Correctional Mental Health Care, December 2006
Appendix 7: Position Statement on Capital Punishment: Adoption of AMA Statements on Capital Punishment, July 2008
Appendix 8: Position Statement on Atypical Antipsychotic Medications, September 2009
Appendix 9: Position Statement on Access to Care for Transgender and Gender Variant Individuals, July 2012
Appendix 10: Position Statement on Segregation of Prisoners With Mental Illness, December 2012
Index

The new edition of Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities provides comprehensive guidelines on principles of treatment, clinical issues, and specific patient populations. Particularly appreciated are new sections on emerging issues such as attention-deficit disorders, LGBT inmates, and segregation, among others. These guidelines will be a touchstone for psychiatrists assuming leadership roles in correctional systems in the United States.—Rusty Reeves, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Program Director, Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship, Rutgers University, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Director of Psychiatry, Rutgers University, University Correctional Health Care

This document represents the consensus of a number of eminent psychiatrists in the field of correctional psychiatry. It sets out the history of correctional psychiatry, and many of the important principles related to the delivery of psychiatric services to correctional facilities in an easily digestible format. This working paper is a thorough, well written review, which should be read by every mental health practitioner working in corrections.—Graham D. Glancy, M.B., Ch.B., F.R. C.Psych., F.R.C.P.(C), Founder Forensic Psychiatry, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (C), Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry University of Toronto

Providing psychiatric services in correctional settings brings a range of clinical, professional, ethical, legal and organisational challenges to those who assume this noble task. Clinically adept and concise, yet wide ranging in scope, this excellent text provides a foundational framework for all psychiatrists who work within the walls of lock-ups, jails, and prisons. Trestman and colleagues have given us an essential guide, long overdue, that serves also as a call to action for greater engagement in the treatment of this marginalised population.—Johann Brink, M.B.Ch.B., B.A. Hons., F.C.Psych.(S.A.), F.R.C.P.C., Clinical Professor and Head, Division of Forensic Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia

Similar to previous editions, this third edition of the APA's Psychiatric Services in Correctional Facilities provides invaluable guidelines to correctional psychologist in their provision of mental health care. Particularly important is the contribution regarding non-suicidal self-injury and its distinction from suicidal behavior, as well as advocating that psychiatrists take a more active role and collaborating with custody personnel in addressing this challenging behavior. There is also an increased focus on the use of segregation for inmates with serious mental illness, as well as use of seclusion and restraint, and the advent of telepsychiatry. While discussion of these issues can be found elsewhere, their inclusion in this text is particularly important.—Lindsay M. Hayes, Project Director, National Center on Institutions & Alternatives

With the current national discussion about the use of segregation or extreme social isolation in America's prisons and jails, and the growing awareness of the impact the imprisonment of large numbers of persons with mental illness is having on prisons and jails, this work group report of the APA makes an important and timely contribution to the practice of American corrections. The report and its principles and guidelines provide an accessible, useful, informed, and up-to-date roadmap for correctional administrators and mental health practitioners to follow. It is written in easy-to-understand language, provides clear and concise prescriptions, and should be on the desk of every Sheriff, Warden and prison administrator in the nation.—Martin F. Horn, Former Secretary of Corrections, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Commissioner, New York City Department of Corrections

This work group report underscores the realities, opportunities, and challenges encountered over the years and currently by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals practicing in correctional settings as the real numbers and overall percentages of prisoners who have serious mental illness, transient adjustment states, and co-occurring substance use, intellectual disabilities, and/or other medical conditions have continued to increase. This extraordinary work group, comprising highly skilled psychiatrists with extensive correctional and forensic experiences, has greatly expanded the knowledge base since the second edition published 15 years ago. The report is a comprehensive and essential roadmap that is a necessity for all psychiatrists who practice or anticipate practicing in correctional settings. This roadmap includes principles, guidelines and special applications detailed in the report that are excellent and have great utility and relevance for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals newly entering these settings as well as seasoned veterans who have, by necessity, become an integral component for the management and provision of clinical services in correctional facilities and community corrections.—Raymond F. Patterson, M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Georgetown University