Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in incarcerated populations : current clinical considerations and recommendations

Allely, CS; Allely, B

Abstract

Purpose: Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may have a detrimental impact on the individual’s ability to benefit from rehabilitative prison-based programmes and studies have also found that there is an association between PTSD and higher rates of re-offending. Studies have also found that a significant number of cases of trauma and PTSD go undetected and therefore untreated in individuals who are incarcerated.

Approach: A literature review was carried out exploring studies which have investigated PTSD in incarcerated populations in order to identify current clinical considerations and recommendations.

Findings: This paper explores the key findings from the literature and highlights the important clinical implications and recommendations.

Value: To the authors' knowledge, this is the first paper to focus specifically on how the findings from the literature can inform clinical practice and also what factors need to be given greater consideration, going beyond current systematic reviews and literature reviews in the field.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 16, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Jan 20, 2020
• Publication Date: Jan 20, 2020
• Deposit Date: Dec 23, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 3, 2020
• Journal: Journal of Criminal Psychology
• Print ISSN: 2009-3829
• Publisher: Emerald
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 30-42
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-09-2019-0044
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-09-2019-0044
• Related Public URLs: https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2009-3829