Migrant patients in forensic psychiatry. An epidemiological survey from the german country of Baden-Württemberg [Migranten als patienten im maßregelvollzug: Eine versorgungsepidemiologische erhebung aus Baden-Württemberg]

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Volume 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-57

Migrant patients in forensic psychiatry. An epidemiological survey from the german country of Baden-Württemberg [Migranten als patienten im maßregelvollzug: Eine versorgungsepidemiologische erhebung aus Baden-Württemberg] (Review)

Hoffmann K.*

^a Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Zentrum für Psychiatrie, Reichenau, Germany, Forensische Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Zentrum für Psychiatrie, Feursteinstraße 55, 78479 Reichenau, Germany

Abstract

The treatment of mentally ill migrants is being increasingly discussed in general psychiatry and psychotherapy. Most studies show that this group underutilises the mental health system. This first epidemiological survey of the German forensic system shows a higher percentage of migrant patients than in the general population. Reasons for this development are discussed. In clinical practice, the migrant patients require special therapeutic and pedagogic options including specific legal advice. © Springer Medizin Verlag 2004.

Author Keywords

Transcultural psychiatry Forensic psychiatry Social psychiatry and epidemiology

Index Keywords

Germany psychological aspect methodology human risk assessment statistics mental health care Mental Disorders psychotherapy mental disease Humans mental patient male female risk factor social psychiatry Review Risk Factors prevalence Article migration Transients and Migrants psychiatry crime forensic psychiatry health survey

Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-32944459233&doi=10.1007%2fs00115-004-1812-6&partnerID=40&md5=295be6aeff7f6a68a05bdac4e662fbb0

DOI: 10.1007/s00115-004-1812-6

ISSN: 00282804

Cited by: 15

Original Language: German