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Achieving Autism Accreditation in Cat A Prison

AIMS: To ensure autististic prisoners are understood and receive necessary support in custodial environment. METHODS: 1. Prison healthcare staff and discipline staff jointly trained about autism and how it is best managed in prison setting. 2. Promotion re-education aids for prisons visually and ver...

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Autores principales: Daly, Rachel, Motherskill, Kimbia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9378174/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.118
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description AIMS: To ensure autististic prisoners are understood and receive necessary support in custodial environment. METHODS: 1. Prison healthcare staff and discipline staff jointly trained about autism and how it is best managed in prison setting. 2. Promotion re-education aids for prisons visually and verbally. 3. Prison staff as autistic champions. 4. Accessible autistic spectrum lead in healthcare team to coordinate need. RESULTS: priority that prison becomes autism accredited by national autistic society in progress. CONCLUSION: There is increase of prisoners with neurodevelopmental disorders and ensuring their needs met in prison and this is CAT A challenging prison environment.
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spelling pubmed-93781742022-08-18 Achieving Autism Accreditation in Cat A Prison Daly, Rachel Motherskill, Kimbia BJPsych Open Education and Training AIMS: To ensure autististic prisoners are understood and receive necessary support in custodial environment. METHODS: 1. Prison healthcare staff and discipline staff jointly trained about autism and how it is best managed in prison setting. 2. Promotion re-education aids for prisons visually and verbally. 3. Prison staff as autistic champions. 4. Accessible autistic spectrum lead in healthcare team to coordinate need. RESULTS: priority that prison becomes autism accredited by national autistic society in progress. CONCLUSION: There is increase of prisoners with neurodevelopmental disorders and ensuring their needs met in prison and this is CAT A challenging prison environment. Cambridge University Press 2022-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9378174/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.118 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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