The development of forensic mental health nursing; the nursing care and management of the offender patient with psychosis; the nursing care and management of personality disordered patients; the care and management of adolescent mentally disordered offenders; nursing and mentally impaired offenders; community supervision of mentally disordered offenders; ethical issues within forensic mental health nursing; sexuality and mentally disordered offenders; the assessment and management of risk; race culture and ethnicity issues; psycho-social interventions and the mentally disordered offender; treatment and management of sex offenders; the diversion of mentally disordered offenders from the criminal justice system; the informal carers of mentally disordered offenders; forensic mental health nurse training, education and professional development.

A comprehensive forensic mental health nursing text, which meets the needs of practitioners working within the forensic mental health sector and students training to work in this sector. The text addresses clinical and practical issues relating to the care of mentally disordered offenders.

technical/vocational.