title: [Judicial psychiatric hospital closings. Workers' expectations in rehabilitation facilities: A pilot study from the Province of Taranto (Italy)].
abstract: METHODS
  The aim of this study is to gain a clear understanding of the level of knowledge and training of staff members from psychiatric rehabilitation services in the Province of Taranto (Italy), where patients released from judicial psychiatric hospitals will be admitted.
  
  
  METHODS
  A questionnaire taken from an earlier study on judicial psychiatric hospitals, conducted by The Ministry of Justice of the Department Penitentiary Administration - Superior Institute of Penitentiary Studies, was used in this study. Were contacted in advance of Directors 8 Community Rehabilitation and Psychiatric Care and Day Care Centres 7 present the province of Taranto, who has sought membership survey.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Many requests for information and training regarding the problems and challenges related to the management of individuals who are mentally ill, perpetrators of crimes, and persons who are held in protective custody are made by those who work in these institutions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Hospital workers are highly apprehensive with regard to working with a patient population quite different from that which they are normally accustomed to. In order to confront these challenges, they, together with other colleagues from both the private and public services sector, have turned toward the concept of teamwork. One element of contradiction seems to be a low level of knowledge regarding what will be required of them when their work will be connected to the world of criminal justice in the future. The workers who were interviewed who have experience in working with patients from Judicial Psychiatric Hospitals seem to be up to the task of meeting the complex needs of the mentally ill and perpetrators of crimes within psychiatric rehabilitation facilities, as these patients must be kept under security.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Neuroscienze ed Organi di Senso, Sezione di Psichiatria, DSNP, Università di Bari, Italia.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Grattagliano
authors.affiliation: Sezione di Criminologia e Psichiatria Forense, Dipartimento Interdisciplinare di Medicina Facoltà Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Bari, Italia.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Scialpi
authors.affiliation: Sezione di Criminologia e Psichiatria Forense, Dipartimento Interdisciplinare di Medicina Facoltà Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Bari, Italia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pierri
authors.affiliation: Sezione di Criminologia e Psichiatria Forense, Dipartimento Interdisciplinare di Medicina Facoltà Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Bari, Italia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pastore
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Neuroscienze ed Organi di Senso, Sezione di Psichiatria, DSNP, Università di Bari, Italia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ragusa
authors.affiliation: Sezione di Criminologia e Psichiatria Forense, Dipartimento Interdisciplinare di Medicina Facoltà Medicina e Chirurgia, Università di Bari, Italia.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Margari
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D057237:Criminals / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: crime perpetrator; judicial psychiatric hospital; rehabilitation; treatment; worker training