Exploring the relationship between criminogenic risk assessment and mental health court program completion.
*Needs Assessment; *Risk Assessment; Clinical services; Comparative Studies; Criminal Law/*legislation & jurisprudence; Criminals/*legislation & jurisprudence/*psychology; Criminogenic risk assessment; Criminology – Legislation and Jurisprudence; Evaluation Research; Goals; Goals and Objectives; Human; Humans; Judicial Role; Jurisprudence; Mental Disorders – Therapy; Mental Disorders/*therapy; Mental health court; Mental Health Services; Mentally Ill Persons/*legislation & jurisprudence/*psychology; Multicenter Studies; Needs Assessment; Ohio; Psychiatric Patients – Legislation and Jurisprudence; Psychiatric Patients – Psychosocial Factors; Public Offenders – Legislation and Jurisprudence; Public Offenders – Psychosocial Factors; Risk Assessment; Scales; Validation Studies
The two primary goals of mental health courts are to engage individuals with severe mental illness in the criminal justice system with clinical mental health services and to prevent future involvement with the criminal justice system. An important factor in helping to achieve both goals is to identify participants' level of clinical needs and criminogenic risk/needs. This study seeks to better understand how criminogenic risk affects outcomes in a mental health court. Specifically, we explore if high criminogenic risk is associated with failure to complete mental health court. Our subjects are participants of a municipal mental health court (MHC) who completed the Level of Services Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) upon entry to the program (N=146). We used binary logistic regression to determine the association between termination from the program with the total
Bonfine Natalie; Ritter Christian; Munetz Mark R
International journal of law and psychiatry
2016
2016-04
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2016.02.002" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/j.ijlp.2016.02.002</a>
The ethics of mandatory community treatment.
Humans; United States; Mental Disorders/*therapy; Patient Acceptance of Health Care; Beneficence; *Coercion; Commitment of Mentally Ill/*legislation & jurisprudence; Community Mental Health Services/*ethics/legislation & jurisprudence; Legal Approach; Mental Health Therapies; Patient Rights/*ethics
The authors present three ethical arguments to address the controversy of mandatory community treatment: rights-based versus beneficence, utilitarian, and communitarian. Each approach suggests that mandatory community treatment can be an ethical intervention for individuals with severe mental disorders in well-defined circumstances. It is critical to recognize that such interventions cannot be effective in the absence of an adequately funded, quality mental health service system. Within such a system, the authors believe a program of mandatory community treatment may play an important role. In considering mandatory outpatient treatment, the authors argue that consideration of decisionmaking capacity is preferable to dangerousness criteria, that clinical criteria with some flexibility should be developed so that mandatory community treatment is used only when alternatives have failed, that mandatory community treatment should be implemented long enough to be effective, and that consumers must be involved in the development and implementation of mandatory outpatient treatment programs.
Munetz Mark R; Galon Patricia A; Frese Frederick J 3rd
The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
2003
1905-6
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An Engagement Intervention for Young Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions.
*Decision Making; *Mental Health Services; *Models; ADULTS – Mental health; Decision Making; DECISION making; FEASIBILITY studies; HEALTH services administration; Human; Humans; INFORMATION processing; MATHEMATICAL models; Mental Disorders – Therapy; Mental Disorders/*therapy; Mental Health; MENTAL health; Mental Health Services; MENTAL health services; MENTAL illness treatment; Models; Qualitative Research; QUALITATIVE research; Qualitative Studies; Theoretical; THEORY; Young Adult
Young adults with serious mental health conditions (SMHCs) often do not engage continuously with mental health services, and there are few engagement interventions designed for them. This qualitative study presents a blueprint for conceptualizing and developing an engagement intervention designed for young adults with SMHCs. The blueprint includes the following activities: (1) establishing a strong theoretical basis, (2) designing an initial manual based on previous research and practice, (3) systematically examining feedback on the manual from stakeholders, and (4) examining the feasibility, acceptability, and implementation demands of the intervention. Interviews, group discussions, and journaling were utilized to collect information from young adult participant-researchers, intervention facilitators (i.e., recovery role models and clinicians), and additional stakeholders (e.g., clinic staff and administrators) (N = 43). Analyses were performed with multiple coders using constant comparative methods. Results revealed critical information to improve the intervention, while also suggesting that the engagement intervention for young adults with SMHCs has promise.
Munson Michelle R; Cole Andrea; Jaccard James; Kranke Derrick; Farkas Kathleen; Frese Fred J 3rd
The journal of behavioral health services & research
2016
2016-10
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-014-9424-9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1007/s11414-014-9424-9</a>
Interventions That Target Criminogenic Needs for Justice-Involved Persons With Serious Mental Illnesses: A Targeted Service Delivery Approach.
*Criminals; *Health Services Needs and Demand; Adult; criminogenic needs; Health Services Needs and Demand; Humans; Mental Disorders – Therapy; Mental Disorders/*therapy; Mental Health Services – Administration; Mental Health Services/*organization & administration; mental illness; Middle Age; Middle Aged; Public Offenders; recidivism; Young Adult
This research describes the development of a targeted service delivery approach that tailors the delivery of interventions that target criminogenic needs to the specific learning and treatment needs of justice-involved people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs). This targeted service delivery approach includes five service delivery strategies: repetition and summarizing, amplification, active coaching, low-demand practice, and maximizing participation. Examples of how to apply each strategy in session are provided, as well as recommendations on when to use each strategy during the delivery of interventions that target criminogenic needs. This targeted service delivery approach makes an important contribution to the development of interventions for justice-involved people with SMI by increasing the chances that people with SMI can participate fully in and benefit from these interventions that target criminogenic needs. These developments come at a critical time in the field as the next generation of services for justice-involved people with SMI are being developed.
Wilson Amy Blank; Farkas Kathleen; Bonfine Natalie; Duda-Banwar Janelle
International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
2018
2018-05
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X17695588" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1177/0306624X17695588</a>