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WOMEN PRISONERS AND OFFENDERS Somebody’s mother, daughter, sister, partner

WOMEN PRISONERS AND OFFENDERS Somebody’s mother, daughter, sister, partner 12 July 2012 www.prisonersfamilies.org.uk. Presentation by James Ward, Research Associate, Durham University www.prisonersfamilies.org.uk. Mental Health, self-harm & women’s wellbeing. James Ward.

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WOMEN PRISONERS AND OFFENDERS Somebody’s mother, daughter, sister, partner

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  1. WOMEN PRISONERS AND OFFENDERS Somebody’s mother, daughter, sister, partner 12 July 2012www.prisonersfamilies.org.uk

  2. Presentation by James Ward, Research Associate, Durham University www.prisonersfamilies.org.uk

  3. Mental Health, self-harm & women’s wellbeing James Ward

  4. “Women have been marginalised within a system largely designed by men for men for far too long and there is a need for a “champion” to ensure that their needs are properly recognised and met” Baroness Corston - 2007

  5. Women, particularly wives and female ‘friends’, are the most regular and most frequent visitors Scafer, (1994)

  6. The Knowledge Transfer Partnership ‘Although an empathic approach is essential in dealing with people who self-harm, it is not clear that any one form of treatment is particularly effective’ (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2010, p.37) Women & Staff

  7. What we did • Trauma focussed mental health services • Staff Awareness Sessions • Development of a Sensory Room • Care Action Planning Packs • Mental Health First Aid – for staff and key prisoners

  8. Women’s experience of visits “I’ve been in Low Newton for 3 months now and I have self-harmed 5 times. I was in Newhall for 7 months and I never self-harmed once because I was getting visits there and I have not had any here” “the shame, the pity on their faces, all sorts of things, especially my mother, ‘you’ve let me down’ then puts you back into that cycle of ‘do you know what, right, just get out of my face because I just want to do it again now because you just made me feel even worse”

  9. Visitors experience of visits “If D’s really down I avoid [talking about] it” “You do try to keep it positive on the visit. Then I’ll get home and she’ll phone me and tell me”

  10. Directions? Support for mental health VS Information about mental health Improvement of ‘visiting practices’ Information sharing between prisons and visitors

  11. Ministry of Justice (2007) The Government’s Response to the Report by Baroness Corston of a Review of Women with Particular Vulnerabilities in the Criminal Justice System. The Stationary Office. available at http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/gov-resp-corston-review.htm Royal College of Psychiatrists (2010). Self-Harm, Suicide and Risk: Helping People who Self-Harm. Final Report of a Working Group. College Report CR158. London: Author. Schafer, N.E.Exploring the Link between Visits and Parole Success: A Survey of Prison Visitors. Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol Spring 1994 vol. 38 no. 1 17-32 Schomerus G, Schwahn C, Holzinger A, Corrigan PW, Grabe HJ, Carta MG, Angermeyer MC. Evolution of public attitudes about mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2012 doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2012.01826.x James.ward@durham.ac.uk

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