Table of Contents:
  • I: Theory-building
  • Thinking about the needs of women in secure settings.
  • Dangerous journeys: women's pathways into and through secure mental health
  • Services.
  • Women and offending.
  • Troubled inside: vulnerability in prison.
  • Women and risk.
  • More alike than different: gender and forensic mental health
  • II. Practice
  • Working together: integrated multi-disciplinary practice with women.
  • Thinking under fire: the challenge for forensic mental health nurses working
  • With women in secure care.
  • Hiding and being lost: the experience of female patients and staff on a
  • Mixed sex ward.
  • 'a net of threads finer than cobweb': the life of a women's group.
  • A psychodynamically-orientated group for women with learning disabilities.
  • III: Service development
  • The development of medium secure services for women.
  • Closing the gap between evidence and practice: the role of training in
  • Transforming women's services.
  • Men, women, and good practice.