Ali Saima, Adshead Gwen
West London NHS Trust, Southall, United Kingdom.
Front Psychiatry. 2022 Apr 4;13:840837. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.840837. eCollection 2022.
The relationship between violence, gender and mental health is a complex one which is yet to be fully understood. Gender role stereotypes are social constructs that can powerfully influence and regulate human behaviour, including violence; and so it is likely that they also influence the nexus of violence management and mental health which is at the core of forensic psychiatry. In this article, we examine how gender role stereotypes might influence the practice of forensic psychiatry: specifically, in relation to women as violent offenders, as patients in secure psychiatric care and as clinicians working in forensic settings. We identify areas of development in women's forensic mental health services, and examine whether patriarchal influences and gender role stereotypes may have inadvertently impacted upon these changes. We also consider whether these changes may maintain pre-existing barriers to treatment for both men and women.
暴力、性别与心理健康之间的关系错综复杂，尚未得到充分理解。性别角色刻板印象是一种社会建构，能够有力地影响和规范人类行为，包括暴力行为；因此，它们很可能也会影响暴力管理与心理健康之间的联系，而这正是法医精神病学的核心所在。在本文中，我们探讨性别角色刻板印象可能如何影响法医精神病学的实践：具体而言，涉及作为暴力犯罪者的女性、接受安全精神病护理的女性患者以及在法医环境中工作的女性临床医生。我们确定女性法医心理健康服务的发展领域，并研究父权制影响和性别角色刻板印象是否可能在不经意间对这些变化产生了影响。我们还会思考这些变化是否可能维持男女在治疗方面预先存在的障碍。
