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TOPIC: Mental Health Patients in Prison

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Agarwal, P. P., Manjunatha, N., Gowda, G. S., Kumar, M. G., Shanthaveeranna, N., Kumar, C. N., & Math, S. B. (2019). Collaborative tele-neuropsychiatry consultation services for patients in central prisons. Journal of neurosciences in rural practice, 10(01), 101-105.

The critical point discussed by the authors is tele-neuropsychiatry consultation services among inmates in most prisons. The article explains the frequency of seeking for tele-neuropsychiatry consultation services and metal treatment among inmates has increased over the past five (Agarwal et al., 2019). The increase in such cases is a result of most people imprisoned undergo painful life experiences, which makes them have mental disorders. As a result, this causes an increase in the number of inmates who seek mental check-ups and another related case.

According to the authors of this article, most inmates experience mental condition due to multiple problems that they engage in, which makes them have mental cases. The article further notes that research conducted engaging Psychiatry and neurology revealed that a higher percentage of inmates experiencing psychological issues are men. The main reason for this is because most men engage in some activities which make them have stress, thus leading to mental conditions.

Bell, S., Hopkin, G., & Forrester, A. (2019). Exposure to traumatic events and the experience of burnout, compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction among prison mental health staff: an exploratory survey. Issues in mental health nursing, 40(4), 304-309.

The article discusses the mental health of the prison staff and how their exposure to the traumatic environment makes them vulnerable to developing psychiatric issues. The aim of the research in the article was to determine the effects of exposing workers in mental health prisons to traumatic events burnout, compassion fatigue, and satisfaction. Authors assert the exposure may cause staff to experience burnout, decreased compassion satisfaction, and even experience compassion fatigue (Bell et al., 2019). The publication presents the findings of a study in prison that indicates that exposure to traumatic events, the nature of the working environment as well as the characteristics of staff are the major causes of burnout and other negative feelings among prison employees. The source is relevant to the study as it will help in understanding the challenges that mental health workers go through to ensure that mentally ill prisoners are served appropriately. It also gives an insight into the need for providing prison employees with a safe and appropriate working environment to enhance their mental status.

Ellis, A. (2019). Forensic psychiatry and mental health in Australia: an overview. CNS spectrums, 1-3.

The author, who is a psychiatric professor at the University of South Wales, aims to provide a review of one development of forensic psychiatric and mental health services in Australia. The article seemed at international readers who might be interested in the prevalence of mental health in the department of criminal justice. The source discusses the various colonial system legacies that might have contributed to the current interaction between the healthcare services targeting mentally ailed individuals and the justice system (Ellis, 2019). It also gives a review on the development of suitable legislation, court services, prison services, hospitals, as well as the community at large. Primarily, the author considered the gap that exists between the healthcare services and the prison services. The source is essential for the study on mental health in prisons as it gives the insight on how close the criminal justice as a department works together with the healthcare department to ensure the mental wellbeing of the mentally sick inmates (Ellis, 2019).

Farabee, D., Hall, E., Zaheer, A., & Joshi, V. (2019). The impact of perceived stigma on psychiatric care and outcomes for correctional mental health patients. Psychiatry Research, 276, 191-195.

The article examines the various factors associated with the delivery and effectiveness of psychiatric care before and after the release of inmates from prisons. The authors emphasized the self-reported needs that were presented by the patients, the adherence to the psychotropic medication, and the mental stigma associated with treatment. Additionally, the article discusses how healthcare services are given to prisoners with mental illnesses related to their release as well as their re-entry into correctional facilities. Authors identify the stigma of being identified as mentally ill as one of the major causes of challenges when prisoners with psychiatric issues are released back into society. Essentially, the article is relevant to the study as it provides information relating to the stigma brought about by psychiatric care that inmates received while in the correctional facilities (Farabee et al., 2019). It gives an in-depth understanding of whether the healthcare services are useful to prepare prisoners before releasing them back to the community.

Georgiou, M., & Townsend, K. (2019). Quality Network for Prison Mental Health Services: reviewing the quality of mental health provision in prisons. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 30(5), 794-806.

The article focuses on the quality of prison mental health services in the United Kingdom and Ireland. According to the authors, the quality of mental health care in prison in the United Kingdom and Ireland has been poor over time, a condition which has raised many criticisms over the past few years (Georgiou et al., 2019). Due to the high demand for health services in the community, more attention by mental health providers have been diverted to the community. As a result, mental health services in prison offered to inmates has deteriorated over the past few years.

According to the findings of research in this study, Schizophrenia is one of the leading mental health problems prevalent in most prisons in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Also, the article adds that due to inmate uproar about the poor quality of mental health services in prisons, sight improvement have been reported in some prison in different parts of the United Kingdom (Georgiou et al., 2019).

Marr, C., Morris, J., Francis, K., & Schmidt, M. (2019). Mental Health Treatment in United States Prison Systems: The Influence of Varying Treatment Methods on Inmates with Schizophrenia.

The authors of this article talk about mental health treatment in United States prisons. According to them, Schizophrenia is one of the primary mental health conditions prevalent in the United States prison. It is a psychological order that has symptoms like those of delusions, hallucinations, and confused thoughts or lack of speech (Marr et al., 2019). In this article, the authors explained that most of the patients with this disorder are prisoners and that such disease has adverse effects on the mental health of patients. Furthermore, the article noted that the treatment of mental health cases in prison in the United States differs depending on the levels of psychological problems. The authors of this article add that Schizophrenia is the most prevalent mental condition found among inmates in the United States prison (Marr et al., 2019). Even though the leading cause of this disorder remains unknown, its causes are associated with psychological and environmental factors with stress is identified as the possible leading cause.

Neumann, B., Ross, T., & Opitz-Welke, A. (2019). Foreign National Patients in German Prison Psychiatry. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10.

The publication presents research conducted by Newman, Ross, and Opitz-Welkeon, the patients' population of the foreign mentally ill patients from the German prisons. The study aimed to investigate the differences in the number of international patients treated in high-security hospitals as compared to those in the psychiatric wards in prison hospitals (Neumann et al., 2019). Generally, the objectives of the researchers were to establish whether there were cases of citizenship based discrimination in correctional institutions when it comes to treating prisoners with mental disease. From the study, it was concluded that mentally-ill individuals from other nations but in the German prisons had fewer chances of being taken to the high-security hospitals as compared to the German citizens. Instead, they are often taken psychiatric wards located in the jails. This article is significantly essential to the study as it provides information on some of the challenges that mentally-ill prisoners might undergo while in the foreign correctional facilities.

References

Ellis, A. (2019). Forensic psychiatry and mental health in Australia: an overview. CNS spectrums, 1-3.

Farabee, D., Hall, E., Zaheer, A., & Joshi, V. (2019). The impact of perceived stigma on psychiatric care and outcomes for correctional mental health patients. Psychiatry Research, 276, 191-195.

Marr, C., Morris, J., Francis, K., & Schmidt, M. (2019). Mental Health Treatment in United States Prison Systems: The Influence of Varying Treatment Methods on Inmates with Schizophrenia.

Neumann, B., Ross, T., & Opitz-Welke, A. (2019). Foreign National Patients in German Prison Psychiatry. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10.