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The psychologist who was appointed to treat a controversially troubled teen inmate, i.e. 19-years-old Ashley Smith, who strangled herself to death stated that he believes that she had the capacity of being “effectively managed” and recovering from being kept in segregation, though he didn’t have enough time to work on that. The teen astonishingly strangled herself to death in Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener, Ont., in October 2007.
The ongoing coroner’s inquest into her death has so far heard up till now that Smith, who had been spending majority of her time in segregation while shuffling between new institutions, recurrently tied a strip of cloth around her neck for gaining attention and creating drama. The psychologist who treated Smith at Nova Institution for Women, in Truro, N.S., for a few months during 2006 and 2007, Allister Webster, stated that even though Smith had the potential and often did harm herself, she had willingly signed on a treatment plan which shows that she also wanted to eventually be relieved from segregation.
Webster explained that he only spent a total of 21 days with Smith while attending her case, and that it was not a fair enough time for much to happen and from him to do any other than just building some groundwork. After that, Smith was transferred to another facility. Webster claims that the psychiatrist at the institution acknowledged Smith to have been fighting with multiple personality issues such as borderline personality disorder and sadism, though he failed to diagnose her as having any psychotic disorder.
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