This chapter focuses on the carers\u2019 views and experiences of support from forensic mental health services, including information and involvement in their relatives\u2019 or friends\u2019 care and treatment, the benefits and issues with current carer support groups, and what they identify as gaps in support.\u00a0 We specifically focus on forensic carers\u2019 experience of visiting relatives and friends in secure hospital settings as one aspect of that support. \u00a0Finally, we consider the ways in which carers propose that support to them could be improved.<\/p>\n
It is difficult to disentangle the issues of support, information and involvement within carers\u2019 reflections on their experiences, so these are all covered in this section. \u00a0For instance, good quality information or a sense of being involved can both be implicitly supportive measures. \u00a0Specific interventions, such as carer support groups or family therapy offer a combination of support, information and involvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Introduction This chapter focuses on the carers\u2019 views and experiences of support from forensic mental health services, including information and involvement in their relatives\u2019 or friends\u2019 care and treatment, the benefits and issues with current carer support groups, and what they identify as gaps in support.\u00a0 We specifically focus on forensic carers\u2019 experience of visiting … Continue reading 4 Forensic carers’ experience of support<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/forensic-mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/forensic-mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/forensic-mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/forensic-mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/forensic-mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/forensic-mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/forensic-mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/forensic-mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/forensic-mental-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}