nov16,week10,fri.odt

Psych
Week 10
November 16, 2012
paper:
can use summary- build on it.
Don't have to stay with the same person we wrote our summary on
-CSC operates five regional treatment centres (RTC's)
-no independant psychiatric facility for females.
Total of 675 beds
Getting treatment:
Responsibility of MHP's assigned to regular institutions to recommend offenders for admission to RTC
Admission criteria:
Acute psychiatric illness, e.g psychosis
Chronic mental illness
Cognitive, cerebral deficits
Dementia
In crisis e.g suicidal, chronic self harm
Treatment reserved for the most serious cases:
Other MH problems receive limited clinical attention
Insufficient capacity to treat all MDOs
Lack of services for female offenders
Crisis management rather than prevention:
revolving door syndrome
Stabilize MDO's
Released too soon from RTC's, quickly in crisis again.
Use of force to control MDOs
Disconnect between order/security and providing meaningful MH treatment
What is stalking?
An old behaviour, but a new crime
First anti stalking law: California 1990
no stalking law in canada
Charge in canada is harassment
Criminal Harassment:
s. 264
Four interrelated behaviours
Repeatedly follow another person from place to place
repeatedly communicate with directly, indirectly, the other person
Beset or watch a place where the other person is living or working Engage in threatening conduct directed at the other person or family members
These behaviours must cause the person to FEAR for their safety.
Psychological perspective:
Obsessional following
Obsidere --> to besiege
An abnormal or long term patterns of threat or harassment directed toward a specific individual
The DSM-IV definition of obsession
Persistant ideas, thoughts, umpluses, or images that are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate and
that cause marked anxiety or distress.
Vicimts
Women are 3-4x more likely to be victims of stalking
Prevalence: 8% women, 2% men
Perpetrators:
Known to their victims
Most stalked by partner or ex partner
Women stalked by ex partner
men stalked by acquaintance
Tends to last less than a year
80% stalkers are male
Rarely cause physical harm (2% kill)
Psychological harm = great
Common characteristics of stalkers
male dominated
late bloomers
higher levels of educational attainments
difficulty with emplyment
Psycopathology
Alarge proportion of stalkers evidence major mental illnesses
Substance abuse
Cluster B Personality disorders
Stalking catergories:
Simple obsessional (most common)
love obsessional
erotomania
vengeance
Simple obsession:
cases wherein the victim and stalker have some prior knowledge of another
Most common