Review article
Bio-psycho-social model of treatment and rehabilitation of addicts during the conduction of safety measure of obligatory psychiatric treatment in prison hospital Zagreb
Esta Sušić
; Department for forensic psychiatry, Prison hospital Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Ema Ničea Gruber
; Department for forensic psychiatry, Prison hospital Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Blaženka Guberina Korotaj
; Department for forensic psychiatry, Prison hospital Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Addicts are a specific category of offenders or prisoners. Although
some of them are primarily criminalized, the largest number of sentences for drug abuse crimes seem just as direct or indirect consequences of these disorders. Therefore, the application of a special program is needed for the treatment of addicts, lead by multi-disciplinary team of experts and focused on the prevention of future addiction behavior, and therefore criminal relapse.
Authors are presenting the bio-psycho-social model of treatment and rehabilitation of addicts during the conduction of safety measure of obligatory psychiatric treatment at Department for forensic psychiatry in Prison hospital Zagreb. Each patient at the Department is involved in a structured treatment program as a part of a single program of imprisonment, which is, in this case specific and modified in a way that the basic psychiatric treatment program aimed to reduce psychopathology is combined with special program
of addiction treatment, abstinence and rehabilitation. The program for drug addiction, alcoholism and gambling in co-morbidity with other mental disorders (primarily personality disorders and PTSP) is presented. It consists of use of pharmacotherapy and substitution therapy, individual and group psychotherapy work, therapeutic community, working occupational therapy, clubs for addicts, work with family and communication with the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision. It is lead by multi-disciplinary team of experts and it is focused on the rehabilitation process and
the prevention of future addiction behavior which leads to the prevention of criminal relapse.
Keywords
bio-psycho-social model; treatment and rehabilitation of addicts; safety measure of obligatory psychiatric treatment
Hrčak ID:
147858
URI
Publication date:
15.12.2014.
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