Manuela Dudeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 6109132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuela Dudeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuela |
| FAMILY NAME | Dudeck |
| SIGNATURE | DUDECK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Ulm |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-0078-5078 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Effectiveness of Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Patients in Forensic Psychiatry and Prison
We conducted primary and exploratory meta-analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and its forensic (DBT-F) and correctional (DBT-CM) adaptations in forensic psychiatric and correctional settings. Following PRISMA 2020 guidelines, a systematic search across multiple databases identified studies assessing the effects of DBT on aggression, impulsivity, emotion regulation, depression, and borderline symptoms. The …
Recidivism rates of female offenders discharged from forensic psychiatric treatment
The results provide rare recidivism data for risk assessment of female offenders with mental disorders and underscore the protective effect of forensic psychiatric treatment, including forensic aftercare, on recidivism
Predicting violence in female forensic inpatients with substance use disorders – the utility of a gender-responsive assessment
These findings support the applicability of the HCR-20 V3 in justice-involved women with substance use disorder, while highlighting the clinical relevance of the FAM in supporting a gender-informed risk management
Unraveling Relapse in Male Forensic Psychiatric Patients with Substance Use Disorders—The Impact of Social, Psychiatric, and Personality Factors Post Long-Term Remission
Substance use disorder, labelled a chronic relapse condition by the WHO, remains challenging to address with limited progress in effective relapse prevention measures. Scientific evaluation is hindered by cost, but an opportunity arises in the German forensic psychiatric setting governed by § 64 of the German criminal code. Here, patients undergo two-year multi-modal therapy followed by up to five years of supervised oversight post-release. This …
Risk factors for violence among female forensic inpatients with schizophrenia
This article provides important insights into the risk factors of violence among female SSD patients while highlighting the importance of differentiating between various forms of violence. Equally, it substitutes the existing evidence on violence risk assessment in female offenders with SSD
The Predictive Accuracy of the LSI-R in Female Forensic Inpatients—Assessing the Utility of Gender-Responsive Risk Factors
Female reoffending has long been a neglected research interest. Accordingly, risk assessment instruments were developed based on the criminological knowledge of male recidivism. While feminist researchers have repeatedly criticized the failure to incorporate gender-responsive risk (GR) factors, opinions on the gender neutrality of existing instruments remain inconsistent. In order to substitute the existing literature, while extending the scope t…
Gender Differences in the Psychopharmacological Treatment of Forensic In-Patients With Schizophrenia
Recommendations for gender-specific treatment strategies are derived
Efficacy of outpatient treatment of sex offenders
Migrants With Schizophrenia in Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals Benefit From High-Intensity Second Language Programs
Background: As a result of migration, an increasing number of patients in forensic psychiatric hospitals show poor skills in the national language, which can affect their treatment. Improving the second language (L2) of inpatients with schizophrenia may help to enable effective psychotherapy and thus reduce the risk of criminal recidivism and facilitate reintegration into society, for example because of a language-related higher degree of social …
Comparison of outcome in men and women after treatment in psychiatric security hospitals in Germany
Previous research has shown that forensic psychiatric treatment reduces reoffending, rehospitalization and premature mortality. Treatment outcome varies with diagnosis, but little is known about the influence of sex, psychosocial adjustment and aftercare. To assess these variables, we interviewed male and female patients discharged from three psychiatric security hospitals in Germany in the years 2010–2017. Participants were interviewed at discha…
Clinical Ethics Support Services Are Not as Well-Established in Forensic Psychiatry as in General Psychiatry
Background: Mental health care professionals deal with complex ethical dilemmas that involve the principles of autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. Such dilemmas are even more prominent in forensic mental health care, where the restriction of personal rights is legitimated not only by patient well-being but also by public safety interests. Little is known about either the use of formal ethics support services or specific ethical n…
High Quality of Life Reduces Depression, Hopelessness, and Suicide Ideations in Patients in Forensic Psychiatry
Background: Suicides are more common in forensic patients than in the general population. Two reasons for this discrepancy are discussed: (1) Suicides are the consequence of maladaptation to the restrictive living conditions in forensic psychiatry, and (2) suicides are explained by the demographic, social, and psychosocial characteristics of the inmates themselves, i.e. suicides happen because the inmates belong to a particularly vulnerable group…
Aggressive and Disruptive Behavior Among Psychiatric Patients With Major Depressive Disorder, Schizophrenia, or Alcohol Dependency and the Effect of Depression and Self-Esteem on Aggression
Aggressive and disruptive behavior in inpatient settings poses a serious challenge for clinical staff and fellow patients. Hence, the aim of this study was to identify different aspects of aggressive and disruptive behavior in the context of an aberrant self-esteem or clinically manifested depression as potentially influencing factors. We collected self-reported data from 282 psychiatric patients [ICD-10 diagnoses for alcohol dependency, schizoph…
Perceived Institutional Restraint Is Associated With Psychological Distress in Forensic Psychiatric Inpatients
Background: Patients in forensic mental health care experience internal and external coercion; the latter comprises different levels of institutional restraint. These restrictions of individual freedom are mainly justified by the safety interests of third parties and are not necessarily in the patients' best interests. The effects of such a setting on mentally disordered offenders' psychological state and treatment course are not fully understood…
Living Conditions Influence Psychological Distress of Migrants in Long-Term Imprisonment
Background: Serving a long-term prison sentence places a heavy psychological burden on inmates. The concept of salutogenesis and the psychological stress model developed by Lazarus indicate that people can handle difficult situations if they are able to use their resources in a way that makes them feel confident that things will work out as well as can reasonably be expected. However, during long-term imprisonment inmates often have restricted ac…
Self‐aggression, reactive aggression, and spontaneous aggression
This study examined whether the associations between self‐aggression and different forms of externalized aggression (reactive and spontaneous aggression) are influenced by self‐esteem and current psychopathological symptoms. For this purpose, we asked 681 participants from the general population (GP) and 282 general psychiatric patients (PPs) to answer the German versions of the Short Questionnaire for Assessing Factors of Aggression (K‐FAF), the…
Factorial Validity of the Short Form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ—SF) in German Psychiatric Patients, Inmates, and University Students
For the purpose of retrospective assessment and characterization of childhood trauma in adults, the factorial validity of the short form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF) in Germany was evaluated by conducting confirmatory factor analyses for three samples including 1,524 adult psychiatric patients, 224 inmates, and 295 university students. In addition, sex-specific confirmatory factor analyses were performed within each sample. Beca…
Verantwortung und Zurechnung im Spiegel von Strafrecht und Psychiatrie
Traumatization and mental distress in long-term prisoners in Europe
This article investigates the prevalence of traumatization and mental distress in a sample of 1055 male European long-term prisoners as part of a wider study of the living conditions of prisoners serving sentences of at least five years in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Spain and Sweden. Data were collected in a written survey using the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS), the Brief Symptom Inven…
Self‐aggression, reactive aggression, and spontaneous aggression
This study examined whether the associations between self‐aggression and different forms of externalized aggression (reactive and spontaneous aggression) are influenced by self‐esteem and current psychopathological symptoms. For this purpose, we asked 681 participants from the general population (GP) and 282 general psychiatric patients (PPs) to answer the German versions of the Short Questionnaire for Assessing Factors of Aggression (K‐FAF), the…
Traumatization and mental distress in long-term prisoners in Europe
This article investigates the prevalence of traumatization and mental distress in a sample of 1055 male European long-term prisoners as part of a wider study of the living conditions of prisoners serving sentences of at least five years in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Spain and Sweden. Data were collected in a written survey using the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS), the Brief Symptom Inven…
Traumatization and mental distress in long-term prisoners in Europe
This article investigates the prevalence of traumatization and mental distress in a sample of 1055 male European long-term prisoners as part of a wider study of the living conditions of prisoners serving sentences of at least five years in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Spain and Sweden. Data were collected in a written survey using the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS), the Brief Symptom Inven…
Verantwortung und Zurechnung im Spiegel von Strafrecht und Psychiatrie
Factorial Validity of the Short Form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ—SF) in German Psychiatric Patients, Inmates, and University Students
For the purpose of retrospective assessment and characterization of childhood trauma in adults, the factorial validity of the short form of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF) in Germany was evaluated by conducting confirmatory factor analyses for three samples including 1,524 adult psychiatric patients, 224 inmates, and 295 university students. In addition, sex-specific confirmatory factor analyses were performed within each sample. Beca…
Perceived Institutional Restraint Is Associated With Psychological Distress in Forensic Psychiatric Inpatients
Background: Patients in forensic mental health care experience internal and external coercion; the latter comprises different levels of institutional restraint. These restrictions of individual freedom are mainly justified by the safety interests of third parties and are not necessarily in the patients' best interests. The effects of such a setting on mentally disordered offenders' psychological state and treatment course are not fully understood…
Living Conditions Influence Psychological Distress of Migrants in Long-Term Imprisonment
Background: Serving a long-term prison sentence places a heavy psychological burden on inmates. The concept of salutogenesis and the psychological stress model developed by Lazarus indicate that people can handle difficult situations if they are able to use their resources in a way that makes them feel confident that things will work out as well as can reasonably be expected. However, during long-term imprisonment inmates often have restricted ac…
Self‐aggression, reactive aggression, and spontaneous aggression
This study examined whether the associations between self‐aggression and different forms of externalized aggression (reactive and spontaneous aggression) are influenced by self‐esteem and current psychopathological symptoms. For this purpose, we asked 681 participants from the general population (GP) and 282 general psychiatric patients (PPs) to answer the German versions of the Short Questionnaire for Assessing Factors of Aggression (K‐FAF), the…
Comparison of outcome in men and women after treatment in psychiatric security hospitals in Germany
Previous research has shown that forensic psychiatric treatment reduces reoffending, rehospitalization and premature mortality. Treatment outcome varies with diagnosis, but little is known about the influence of sex, psychosocial adjustment and aftercare. To assess these variables, we interviewed male and female patients discharged from three psychiatric security hospitals in Germany in the years 2010–2017. Participants were interviewed at discha…
Clinical Ethics Support Services Are Not as Well-Established in Forensic Psychiatry as in General Psychiatry
Background: Mental health care professionals deal with complex ethical dilemmas that involve the principles of autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence. Such dilemmas are even more prominent in forensic mental health care, where the restriction of personal rights is legitimated not only by patient well-being but also by public safety interests. Little is known about either the use of formal ethics support services or specific ethical n…
High Quality of Life Reduces Depression, Hopelessness, and Suicide Ideations in Patients in Forensic Psychiatry
Background: Suicides are more common in forensic patients than in the general population. Two reasons for this discrepancy are discussed: (1) Suicides are the consequence of maladaptation to the restrictive living conditions in forensic psychiatry, and (2) suicides are explained by the demographic, social, and psychosocial characteristics of the inmates themselves, i.e. suicides happen because the inmates belong to a particularly vulnerable group…
Aggressive and Disruptive Behavior Among Psychiatric Patients With Major Depressive Disorder, Schizophrenia, or Alcohol Dependency and the Effect of Depression and Self-Esteem on Aggression
Aggressive and disruptive behavior in inpatient settings poses a serious challenge for clinical staff and fellow patients. Hence, the aim of this study was to identify different aspects of aggressive and disruptive behavior in the context of an aberrant self-esteem or clinically manifested depression as potentially influencing factors. We collected self-reported data from 282 psychiatric patients [ICD-10 diagnoses for alcohol dependency, schizoph…
Efficacy of outpatient treatment of sex offenders
Migrants With Schizophrenia in Forensic Psychiatric Hospitals Benefit From High-Intensity Second Language Programs
Background: As a result of migration, an increasing number of patients in forensic psychiatric hospitals show poor skills in the national language, which can affect their treatment. Improving the second language (L2) of inpatients with schizophrenia may help to enable effective psychotherapy and thus reduce the risk of criminal recidivism and facilitate reintegration into society, for example because of a language-related higher degree of social …
Gender Differences in the Psychopharmacological Treatment of Forensic In-Patients With Schizophrenia
Recommendations for gender-specific treatment strategies are derived
Risk factors for violence among female forensic inpatients with schizophrenia
This article provides important insights into the risk factors of violence among female SSD patients while highlighting the importance of differentiating between various forms of violence. Equally, it substitutes the existing evidence on violence risk assessment in female offenders with SSD
The Predictive Accuracy of the LSI-R in Female Forensic Inpatients—Assessing the Utility of Gender-Responsive Risk Factors
Female reoffending has long been a neglected research interest. Accordingly, risk assessment instruments were developed based on the criminological knowledge of male recidivism. While feminist researchers have repeatedly criticized the failure to incorporate gender-responsive risk (GR) factors, opinions on the gender neutrality of existing instruments remain inconsistent. In order to substitute the existing literature, while extending the scope t…
Predicting violence in female forensic inpatients with substance use disorders – the utility of a gender-responsive assessment
These findings support the applicability of the HCR-20 V3 in justice-involved women with substance use disorder, while highlighting the clinical relevance of the FAM in supporting a gender-informed risk management
Unraveling Relapse in Male Forensic Psychiatric Patients with Substance Use Disorders—The Impact of Social, Psychiatric, and Personality Factors Post Long-Term Remission
Substance use disorder, labelled a chronic relapse condition by the WHO, remains challenging to address with limited progress in effective relapse prevention measures. Scientific evaluation is hindered by cost, but an opportunity arises in the German forensic psychiatric setting governed by § 64 of the German criminal code. Here, patients undergo two-year multi-modal therapy followed by up to five years of supervised oversight post-release. This …
Recidivism rates of female offenders discharged from forensic psychiatric treatment
The results provide rare recidivism data for risk assessment of female offenders with mental disorders and underscore the protective effect of forensic psychiatric treatment, including forensic aftercare, on recidivism
Effectiveness of Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Patients in Forensic Psychiatry and Prison
We conducted primary and exploratory meta-analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and its forensic (DBT-F) and correctional (DBT-CM) adaptations in forensic psychiatric and correctional settings. Following PRISMA 2020 guidelines, a systematic search across multiple databases identified studies assessing the effects of DBT on aggression, impulsivity, emotion regulation, depression, and borderline symptoms. The …
Clinical Psychology (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Psychiatry (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (12 works) · Poison control (8 works) · Forensic psychiatry (7 works) · Medical emergency (6 works) · Mental health (5 works)