Author: David HillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Recidivism and Continuity of Care in a Community Mental Health Center
Author: David HillPrinciples of Community-based Behavioral Health Services for Justice-involved Individuals: A Research-based Guide (A bridge to the possible)
Author: Department of Health and Human Services U.S.Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1794755314
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Community-based behavioral health providers and systems have an essential role in serving individuals with mental and substance use disorders who are currently or formerly involved with the criminal justice system. These individuals are a part of every community, and as for all community members with behavioral health needs, individualized, integrated, comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous service is the standard of care. Individuals with behavioral health issues are overrepresented in jails and prisons across the United States.1 Most of these individuals return to their communities, families, and social networks and subsequently require community-based behavioral and physical health care services. Research has shown that mental and substance use disorders affect people from all walks of life, with or without justice involvement, and, with the services and supports of behavioral health providers, many people recover.
Continuity of Offender Treatment for Substance Disorders from Institution to Community
Author: Gary FieldPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 078818587X
Category : Continuum of care
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Spotlights the important moment in recovery when an offender who has received substance use disorder treatment while incarcerated is released into the community. Provides guidelines for ensuring continuity of care for the offender client. Treatment providers must collaborate with parole officers & others who supervise released offenders. This report explains how these & other members of a transition team can share records, develop sanctions, & coordinate relapse prevention so that treatment gains made insideÓ are not lost. Presents specific treatment guidelines to long-term medical conditions, & sex offenders.
Health and Incarceration
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309287715
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Over the past four decades, the rate of incarceration in the United States has skyrocketed to unprecedented heights, both historically and in comparison to that of other developed nations. At far higher rates than the general population, those in or entering U.S. jails and prisons are prone to many health problems. This is a problem not just for them, but also for the communities from which they come and to which, in nearly all cases, they will return. Health and Incarceration is the summary of a workshop jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences(NAS) Committee on Law and Justice and the Institute of Medicine(IOM) Board on Health and Select Populations in December 2012. Academics, practitioners, state officials, and nongovernmental organization representatives from the fields of healthcare, prisoner advocacy, and corrections reviewed what is known about these health issues and what appear to be the best opportunities to improve healthcare for those who are now or will be incarcerated. The workshop was designed as a roundtable with brief presentations from 16 experts and time for group discussion. Health and Incarceration reviews what is known about the health of incarcerated individuals, the healthcare they receive, and effects of incarceration on public health. This report identifies opportunities to improve healthcare for these populations and provides a platform for visions of how the world of incarceration health can be a better place.
Continuity of Care in the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center
Author: Dennis Joseph SedgelyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Community Mental Health Centers, Perspectives of the Seventies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community Mental Health Services
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Continuity of Offender Treatment for Substance Use Disorders from Institution to Community
Author: Best Practices for the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice System
Author: Lenore E.A. WalkerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319216562
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
This timely brief resource introduces a new evidence-based model for treatment of mentally ill individuals in jails, with emphasis on community-based options. Forensic mental health experts review police alternatives to arresting mentally ill persons in confrontations, the efficacy of problem-solving courts, and continuity of care between jail and community. The book's best-practices approach extends to frequently related issues such as addiction, domestic violence, juvenile considerations, and trauma and describes successful programs coordinating judicial and clinical systems. These guidelines for decriminalizing non-violent behaviors and making appropriate services available to those with mental problems should also help address issues affecting the justice system, such as overcrowding. Included in the coverage: The Best Practices Model. Best practices in law enforcement crisis interventions with the mentally ill. Problem-solving courts and therapeutic jurisprudence. Competency restoration programs. A review of best practices for the treatment of persons with mental illness in jail. Conclusions, recommendations, and helpful appendices. With its practical vision for systemic improvement, Best Practices Model for Intervention with the Mentally Ill in the Criminal Justice System is progressive reading for practitioners in the mental health field, especially practitioners working with inmates, as well as for stakeholders in the law enforcement and justice systems.
A Method for Measuring Continuity of Care in a Community Mental Health Center
Author: Managing Recidivism, Serious Mental Illness, and Policies
Author: Sherry BealPublisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783838341187
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Debate regarding the balance between a lack of an integrated system of community based mental health care, compulsory care, individual rights & freedoms in the context of serious mental illness, is not a new one. It contains a delicate, changing balance of rights & obligations. The evolution of Ontario's Mental Health Act is discussed illustrating how the current mental health system evolved, unwell & untreated persons reside in communities. Deficiencies are highlighted in applying mental health legislation to situations of persons with persistent psychosis, are treatment non-collaborative, lack the insight symptoms of psychosis can cause, and chronically interface with the criminal justice system. A Government of Ontario inter-ministerial initiative - Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committees is the focus of research. This unique convergence of healthcare, criminal justice system, and community service providers & stakeholders have been mandated together to discuss their common clients toward prevention, system design, crisis/community intervention, court assessments, & case management. Latent consequences of this policy convergence are discussed.