Safe Within the Walls (eBook)

Communication, Control, and De-escalation of Mentally Ill and Aggressive Inmates for Correctional Officers in Prison Facilities

Ellis Amdur (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
316 Seiten
Distributed By Ingram Spark (Verlag)
978-1-0878-5735-0 (ISBN)

Infos

The first sections of this book are concerned with threat assessment: rather than a mere list of risk factors, the authors offer concrete skills on the development of a safety mindset, and further, techniques to develop and hone intuition, that early warning system that warns of danger before your conscious mind is even aware there is something wrong. This also includes what we can do to achieve a state of integrity and powerful calm. Rather than abstract pronouncements, the author offers specific strategies, including a method of breathing for the purpose of maintaining one's center in crisis situations.The next sections are the heart of the book, discussing specific behaviors ranging from confusion and obsessive concerns to psychosis, mania and acute disorganization. In one very important section, the author discusses interactions with opportunistic and manipulative individuals (at worst, those referred to as psychopaths), people who present a danger to the psychological and physical well-being of anyone with whom they come in contact.This is followed by a section on suicide: recognition of patterns of behavior that suggest suicidal intent and best-practice communication and interventions for frontline officers, who must deal with the suicidal inmate first.Next is a discussion of aggression, whether directed at the correctional officer or others. These sections focus how to de-escalate aggressive and chaotic inmates once a crisis is in play. The author elucidates the various motivations that drive aggression and further delineate the different types of aggression that result. De-escalation tactics are specific one learns how to immediately recognize what mode of aggression other person is displaying, and the, one can quickly and effectively implement the de-escalation tactics that are best suited to deal with it. Safe Within the Walls is ideal to use as a core text to set up a comprehensive program within a prison to protect both inmates with mental illness and correctional officers. Finally, in essential appendices, the book presents protocols on current information on positional and compression asphyxiation (authored by Dr. Gary Vilke), and a protocol, specific to correctional officers, on excited delirium (authored by Lieutenant Michael Paulus, ret.) Rather than abstract information, more useful in a consulting room than in the field, Safe Within the Walls is tactically based, from start to finish.

Inhalt

Introduction

Section I: Inmates Suffering from Mental Illness

Section II: Core Requirements for De-escalation and Control of Agitated, Aggressive, and/or Mentally Ill Inmates

Section III: Centering—Standing With Strength in Crisis

Section IV: Dealing With Inmates Who Have Unusual, Intense, and Eccentric Communication Styles

Section V: Recognizing the Strategies of Opportunistic and Manipulative Inmates

Section VI: Communication With Inmates That Have Severe Mental Illness or Other Conditions that Cause Severe Disability

Section VII: Suicide

Section VIII: Recognizing Patterns of Aggression

Section IX: De-escalation of Angry Inmates

Section X: Managing Rage and Violence

APPENDICES

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.12.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: correctional officer • crisis intervention • De-Escalation • defensive tactics • Incarceration • Mental Illness • Penology • Prison • Suicide • Threat Assessment
• ISBN-10: 1-0878-5735-X / 108785735X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0878-5735-0 / 9781087857350