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Forensic mental health services in Scotland

Exploring family carer involvement

research team
published: May 2014

  • Blog
  • About this research
    • Authors
    • Further information
    • Executive Summary
    • Plain English version
    • Full report
    • What happens next?
    • Acknowledgements
    • Copyright
  • 1 Background
    • Terminology
    • Purpose, design & methods
    • Questionnaire survey of services
    • Questionnaire survey of forensic carers
    • Interviews with carers
    • Ethical approval and limitations
    • Literature review
  • 2 Forensic Mental Health Services’ perspectives
    • Method of contact between patients and carers
    • Carer support
    • Carers with specialist needs
    • Promoting carers support
    • Motivations and benefits
    • Difficulties in providing carer support
    • Key findings (ch 2)
  • 3 Experience of being a forensic carer
    • Forensic carers interviewed
    • Journeys…
    • Experience of change
    • Views on quality
    • Being a ‘Forensic Carer’
    • Forensic carers’ role
    • Feeling stigmatised
    • Impact of caring
    • Named Person role
    • Key findings (ch 3)
  • 4 Forensic carers’ experience of support
    • Carers’ evaluation
    • Carer support
    • Advocacy & support agencies
    • Clinical staff roles
    • Family therapy
    • Information
    • Information flow
    • Accessing information
    • Accessing info as named person
    • Barriers
    • Experience of visits
    • Travel issues
    • Hospital environments
    • Stresses of visiting
    • Lack of privacy
    • Challenges and improvements
    • Key finding (ch 4)
  • 5 Discussion
    • Being a forensic carer
    • Availability of carer support
    • Challenges in getting support
    • More supportive environments
    • Recommendations
    • Conclusion
  • 6 References

Further information

Information about support available to carers and people with serious mental illness is available from:

Support in Mind Scotland (SiMS)

Email Support in Mind

Telephone: 0131 662 4359

Forensic Network

 

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