... to physical aggression, severe verbal aggression, property damage and self-harm, in a medium secure setting. In addition, the authors hoped to provide some of the first descriptive data available for the START:AV among a UK adolescent population in a medium secure adolescent unit. Design/methodology...

...-offending and violence recidivism. A study undertaken in 2006 by the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Research and Training Unit concluded that the provision of substance misuse treatments in medium-secure units (MSUs) at that time was inadequate. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how services may...

...Nuwan Galappathie; Krishma Jethwa The paper presents an audit of admission physical examinations performed in the settings of medium security. Documentation regarding 16 key items of the admission physical examination was assessed. During the first audit, 51 admission physical examinations were...