Revista Archivo Médico de Camagüey
ISSN 1025-0255
MIRABAL-REQUENA, Juan Carlos ALVAREZ-ESCOBAR, Belkis. Social reintegration in the Forensic Psychiatry unit in Sancti Spíritus. []. , 24, 2 01--2020. ISSN 1025-0255.
Background:
Forensic Psychiatry is the application of psychiatric knowledge to the justice administration process.
Objective:
to describe the behavior of social reintegration in the Forensic Psychiatry Unit of Sancti Spiritus.
Methods:
the results of the study of the behavior of the insured in the Forensic Psychiatry Unit of Sancti Spiritus 2016 to 2018 are communicated.
Results:
it predominates the age group between 24 to 35 years, male sex, paranoid schizophrenia with atypical neuroleptics as modality of most commonly used psycho-pharmacological treatment. Positive changes were achieved, which helped the request to cease the measure with its subsequent social reintegration.
Conclusions:
with the integral application of therapies, changes are achieved that allow social reintegration, reducing the risk that they may commit crimes or be violent in the future.
: FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID/therapy; SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOID/rehabilitation; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS/therapeutic use.