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Understanding offending behaviour in people with ASD
15.35 - 16.35
Dr Juli Crocombe, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist in Neurodevelopmental Disorders at St Andrew's and Chair of the Advisory Board to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Autism
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Dr Juli Crocombe
Consultant Psychiatrist
Clinical Director for Autism and ID Services
Understanding and Supporting People
with Autism who Offend
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Overview • History
• Policy context
• The Bradley Report
• Building the Right Support
• Offender Pathway
• Care and Treatment
• Challenges/opportunities
• Time for Change: the Challenge Ahead
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History
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• Lack of awareness of ASD
• Failure to recognise / diagnose ASD
• Misdiagnosis
• Lack of support / specialist provision
• Lack of appropriate care and treatment
• Inappropriate care and treatment
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Policy Context
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• Autism Act 2009
• Autism Strategy 2010
• NICE Guidelines 2012
• Transforming Care 2012
• NICE Quality Standard 2014
• Autism Strategy review 2014
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Autism Strategy review 2014
• Preventative support and safeguarding
• Reasonable adjustments and equality
• Supporting people with autism and complex needs
• Employment
• Criminal justice
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Criminal Justice System
Cross Government Group to consider and take
forward issues to do with autism and the CJS:
• Police
• Liaison and Diversion
• Courts
• Prisons
• Probation
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The Bradley Report
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Recommendations • Prevention and early intervention;
• Access to liaison and diversion services;
• Special provisions for vulnerable defendants in court;
• Speedier court reports on mental health;
• Adequate alternatives to prison for vulnerable offenders where
appropriate;
• Better screening for mental health and learning disabilities on arrival
at prison;
• Greater continuity of care as people enter prison and as they leave
prison to re-enter the community;
• Help to be given to petty offenders with mental health problems or
learning disabilities to ensure they are helped to stay out of trouble.
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Building the Right Support
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Aims
• Transform the care of people with LD and/or
autism who have a mental health condition
or display behaviour that challenges (inc
offending behaviours);
• Enable more people to live safely and
happily in the community
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Principles
• I have choice and control over my care
• My care is proactive, planned and coordinated
• I live in the community with support from and for my family and carers
• I have a choice about where I live and who I live with
• I have a fulfilling and purposeful everyday life
• I get good care from mainstream NHS services
• I can access specialist health and social care support in the
community
• I am supported to stay out of trouble
• When I need the additional care and support a hospital provides,
I get high-quality care and don’t stay there longer than I need to.
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I am supported to stay out of trouble
• Community ‘forensic’ services to:
- identify risks and address them;
- establish links with other services/agencies to
facilitate pathways away from the CJS;
- provide advice and support to other
services/agencies to ensure early intervention;
- provide offence-specific interventions;
- provide a care co-ordination function.
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When I need hospital, I get high-quality care and don’t stay there longer than I need to.
• Secure services should:
– only be for people with ASD who present risks that
cannot be managed safely in the community;
– offer evidence based interventions delivered by
appropriately qualified staff and meeting relevant
accreditation;
– function as an integral part of a wider care pathway;
– have strong relationships with the justice service.
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Offender Pathway
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Arrest
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Autism Alert Card
• Credit card size
• In association with police forces
• Supported by training of police officers
• For use in emergency situations
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Autism Alert Cards
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Autism Alert Cards
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Police Station / Custody
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Fitness to be Interviewed
Custody Officer must determine and consider:
• the risks to the detainee’s physical and mental
state if the interview took place;
• what safeguards are needed to allow the interview
to take place.
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Appropriate Adult
• Special protection for mentally disordered or mentally vulnerable persons in custody.
• Ensures that they have a responsible person with them in the custody suite when important actions or decisions take place
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Liaison and Diversion
• Prevent crime
• Reduce re-offending
• Provide better and more timely information to agencies in the criminal justice system.
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Courts / Trial
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Advocacy
‘Questioning that contravenes principles for
obtaining accurate information from a witness
by exploiting his or her developmental
limitations is not conducive to a fair trial and
would contravene the Codes of Conduct’.
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Advocate’s Gateway
• Free access to practical, evidence-based
guidance on vulnerable witnesses and
defendants;
• Toolkits that provide general good practice
guidance when preparing for trial in cases
involving a witness or a defendant with
communication needs;
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Toolkit 3
• Someone with autism falls within the
definition of a vulnerable witness.
• Courts must make reasonable adjustments
to remove barriers for people with
disabilities, including autism.
• There should be a presumption in favour of
a supporter as a special measure.
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Fitness to Plead
• Purpose is to strike a fair balance between:
- the need to protect a defendant who has, in
fact, done nothing wrong but is unfit to plead
at their trial;
- the need to protect the public from a
defendant who has committed an act which
would be a crime if they were fit to plead
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Criteria for making a Hospital Order
• The defendant must be:
- convicted of an offence punishable with
imprisonment; or
- found unfit to plead and to have committed
the act or made the omission.
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Criteria for making a Hospital Order
• The Court must be satisfied on the written
or oral evidence of two doctors that:
- the defendant is suffering from a mental
disorder of a nature or degree which makes
it appropriate for the defendant to be
detained in hospital for medical treatment;
and
- appropriate medical treatment is available.
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MHA Code of Practice • Compulsory treatment in a hospital setting is rarely likely to be
helpful for a person with autism.
• If people with autism do need to be detained under the MHA, it is
important that they are treated in a setting appropriate to their social
and communication needs as well as being able to treat their mental
condition.
• Practitioners working with or detaining people with autism should
have relevant specialist training and experience.
• People with autism should be detained for as short a period as
possible.
• Reasonable adjustments required by the Equality Act must be made.
• Providers must have autism specific policies and practices.
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Care and Treatment
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The nature of Autism
• Autism is a
DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER
• It is not an illness.
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What does this mean?
• YOU CANNOT ‘TREAT’ AUTISM per se;
• YOU CAN TREAT:
- CO EXISTING PHYSICAL ILLNESS;
- CO EXISTING MENTAL ILLNESS;
- TROUBLESOME FEATURES OF AUTISM including anxiety
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Implications
• Correct recognition and diagnosis of autism is
vital.
• Correct recognition and diagnosis of co existing
physical and / or mental illness essential.
• Correct recognition and diagnosis of other co
existing conditions essential.
• Detailed assessment to develop full and accurate
understanding of nature and cause of new or
different behaviours is essential.
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Co existing Physical Illness
• “..significant physical health problems can also be
present in adults with autism.”
• “..may be unrecognised or not treated, in part
because the person with autism had not
complained of any such problems or had not been
able to communicate their concerns in a way that
had been understood.”
NICE 142 page 132-3 ‘Assessment of coexisting conditions’
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Co existing Mental Illness
• Identification and treatment of co existing mental
illness affects the long-term outcome
• People with autism are at increased risk of mental
illness (Joshi et al, 2013)
• 9% of children & adolescents with autism
(Ghaziuddin et al, 1992)
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Other Co existing Conditions
• Personality traits / disorders
• ADHD
- increasingly recognised
- differential diagnosis can be difficult and complex
- co existing or feature of ASD?
- which is primary, ASD or PD / ADHD?
- ‘psychopathy’ / callousness especially ‘risky’
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Assessment
• Full physical history and examination
• Full psychiatric history and mental state examination
• Specialist autism assessment
• Environmental review
• Communication assessment
• Sensory assessment
• Functional analysis
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NICE Quality Statement 7
Assessing possible triggers for behaviour that
challenges.
“People with autism who develop behaviour that
challenges are assessed for possible triggers,
including physical health conditions, mental health
problems and environmental factors.”
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Formulation
• Diagnosis
• Aetiology
• Interventions / treatment
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Diagnosis
• Autism
? plus
• Co existing condition
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Aetiology
Predisposing Precipitating Perpetuating
Biological
Psychological
Social
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Aetiology in Autism
Predisposing Precipitating Perpetuating
Biological
Psychological
Social
Environmental
Communication
Sensory
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Features of ASC that Predispose to
Offending
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Core problems
• Theory of mind deficits
- impaired empathy
• Impaired executive function / central
coherence
• Impaired mental processing
• Sensory integration
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2* or 3* problems
• High anxiety / impulsivity
• Poor judgement / common sense
• Low intellectual functioning
• Morbid preoccupations
• Extreme rigidity
• High fantasy content and poor self
regulation
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Nature of Offending Behaviour
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• Exploitation by others
• Violence
• Anti-social behaviour
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Exploitation
• Social naivety
• Social isolation and vulnerability
• Seeking social approval
• Literal interpretation of language
• Bullied, threatened or coerced
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Violence
• Disruption to routine or social adjustment
• Frustration at social limitations
• Imposition of routines on self and others
• Reaction to others
• Misinterpretation of intentions of others
• Fascination with weapons, poisons, chemicals etc
• Co morbid psychiatric and other problems
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Anti – Social Behaviour
• Poor comprehension of social rules
• Rigidity and repetitiveness
• Impaired empathy
• Social isolation
• Literal understanding of language
• Imposition of rituals or routines on self and others
• Sadistic tendencies
• Morbid, compulsive fantasies or interests
• Co morbid psychiatric disorder
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Interventions / treatment
• Biological
• Psychological
• Social
• Environmental
• Communication
• Sensory
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Accessing Healthcare
4.2 “Adults with autism should be able to benefit fully
from mainstream public services to live
independently and healthily.”
4.5 “Autism Passports….allow people to carry with
them information about themselves....to share with
services what adjustments they need.”
Think Autism – update to the Autism Strategy, April 2014.
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My Hospital Passport
• Intended to assist hospital staff to provide the best
possible healthcare to the individual with autism.
• Available from the NAS.
• Guidance notes to help in completion with the
most useful information to aid assessment and
treatment.
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Biological – mental illness
• Informed by NICE guidance for the specific
disorder
• Psychotropic medication
- antidepressants
- mood stabilisers
- anxiolytics
- (antipsychotics)
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Psychological – mental illness
• Informed by NICE guidance for the specific
disorder
eg Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) for
depressive disorder
• Delivered with an understanding of the core
features of autism
• Adapted
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Psychological – personality disorder
• Informed by NICE guidance for PD
eg Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
• Delivered with an understanding of the core
features of autism
• Adapted
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Psychological – ‘challenging behaviour’
• Behavioural therapy (functional analysis)
• Anger management interventions
• Supportive
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Social
• Social learning programmes
• Structured leisure activity programme
• Supported employment programme
• Support for families, partners and carers
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Environmental
• Carers – family/staff
• Physical environment
• Structure/routine
• Fellow residents/patients
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Communication
• Carer awareness
• SALT
• Visual cues
• Specific strategies
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Sensory issues
• Full sensory integration assessment
• Ensure all carers know and understand sensory
integration profile
• Strategies and interventions to modulate sensory
integration difficulties
- Weighted blanket
- Low lighting
- Colours
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NICE Quality Statement 8
Interventions for behaviour that challenges
“People with autism and behaviour that challenges
are not offered antipsychotic medication unless it is
being considered because psychosocial or other
interventions are insufficient or cannot be delivered
because of the severity of the behaviour.”
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Risk Assessment
• Existing tools don’t address:
- ASD specific risks
- internet related risks
• Accordingly, danger of:
- overestimating risk
- underestimating risk
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Outcome Measures
• Existing tools:
- based on neurotypical values
- based on concept of ‘recovery’
• Accordingly:
- fail to measure change
- are meaningless to the person with ASD
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Challenges / Opportunities
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Service Provision
• Closure of inpatient services
• Failure to distinguish between needs of:
- ASD + ID vs ASD – ID;
- ‘Challenging’ vs Offending Behaviour
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Discharge
• I can’t access:
- appropriate care and treatment
- specialist health and social care support in
the community
- community ‘forensic’ services
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Results
• Lack of appropriate health and social care
support
• More people with ASD come into contact
with the CJS
• More people with ASD go to prison
• Increase risk of harm to self and others
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Time for Change: the Challenge Ahead
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Key Recommendations
• Prevention Revolution
• PBS Standard and tiered accreditation systems
• Continuing investment for capital projects to support
discharge
• Establishment of a Social Property Fund
• Exemption for supported housing from capping of housing
benefit
• Independent evaluation of the Transforming Care
programme
• Learning Disabilities Commissioner