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Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry pp 163–180Cite as

Psychiatric Treatment in the Detention Systems of Quebec: Trying to Merge Prison and Therapeutic Cultures

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In Canada, federal and provincial correctional systems offer access to health care for detainees but quality of care varies in those systems. Provincial detention centres are less well-funded, staffed, and structured than federal centres. This paper will focus on psychiatric treatment offered in provincial detention centres, although some changes are now being proposed by the provincial authorities. The clinical organization of detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental disorders within these facilities will be described. This chapter will also describe everyday ethical issues faced by psychiatrists working in these provincial facilities.

Authors wish to thank Dre Renée Fugère, Psychiatrist at the Institut Philippe-Pinel de Montréal and the International Academy of Law and Mental Health for their collaboration to this chapter.

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    Personal communication with Denis Bouchard, Detention Counsellor, Chief of the suicide prevention program, Établissement de détention de Montréal.

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  1. Institut Philippe-Pinel de Montréal, 10 905 boul. Henri-Bourassa Est, Montreal, (Qc), H1C 1H1, Canada

    Marie-Hélène Régnier (Assistant to the Director General), Jean-Luc Dubreucq (Psychiatrist), Julie Duchaine (Pharmacist) & Jocelyn Aubut (Psychiatrist, Director General)

  2. Université de Montréal, 10 905 boul. Henri-Bourassa Est, Montreal, (Qc), H1C 1H1, Canada

    Jean-Luc Dubreucq (Clinical Associate Professor) & Jocelyn Aubut (Clinical Associate Professor)

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Régnier, MH., Dubreucq, JL., Dubreucq, JL., Duchaine, J., Aubut, J., Aubut, J. (2013). Psychiatric Treatment in the Detention Systems of Quebec: Trying to Merge Prison and Therapeutic Cultures. In: Konrad, N., Völlm, B., Weisstub, D. (eds) Ethical Issues in Prison Psychiatry. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 46. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0086-4_9

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