Serving mentally ill offenders : challenges and opportunities for mental health professionals /

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This comprehensive book addresses the complex issues associated with the criminalization of mentally ill offenders in the United States and the ways in which social workers and other mental health professionals can best channel their efforts to create better services and treatment. Specialists in la...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Landsberg, Gerald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Springer, ©2002.
Colección:Springer series on family violence.
Temas:
Mentally ill offenders > Care > United States.
Mentally ill offenders > Services for > United States.
Mental health services.
Mental Health Services
Prisoners
Criminels vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Soins > États-Unis.
Criminels malades mentaux, Services aux > États-Unis.
Criminels vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale > Services > États-Unis.
Services de santé mentale.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Mentally ill offenders > Care.
Mentally ill offenders > Services for.
Service de santé mentale.
Soins psychiatriques.
Criminel malade mental.
Programme communautaire.
Femme.
Trouble affectif.
Victime.
Droit.
United States
United States.
États-Unis.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Lane County Adult Corrections Mental Health Services, Lane County, Oregon
  • Oswego Mental Health Forensic Mental Health Program, Oswego, New York
  • Overview
  • Development & implementation of a police/mental health training program in a large urban environment
  • Memphis CIT model
  • Birmingham Police Department Community Service Officer Unit
  • Criminal justice diversion of individuals with co-occurring mental illness & substance use disorders
  • Jail diversion in a managed care environment
  • Friends of Island Academy
  • Broward's mental health court
  • Preventing incarceration of adults with severe mental illness
  • New York City's system of criminal justice mental health services
  • Overview
  • Maryland's programs for incarcerated women with mental illness & substance abuse disorders
  • Gender-specific intervention model for incarcerated women
  • Elder abuse & forensic mentally ill abusers
  • Identifying & addressing the needs of victims of mentally ill offenders
  • Judge's perspective
  • Social workers as advocates for mentally ill criminal defendants/inmates
  • Observations of a criminal defense attorney
  • Someone had to stop the spinning
  • Personal experience
  • Implementing Kendra's law
  • Review of screening instruments for co-occurring mental illness & substance abuse in criminal justice programs.

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