Serving mentally ill offenders : challenges and opportunities for mental health professionals / Gerald Landsberg ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Landsberg, Gerald.

Series:

Springer series on family violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentally ill offenders--Care--United States.

Mentally ill offenders.

Mentally ill offenders--Care.

Mentally ill offenders--Services for.

United States.

Mentally ill offenders--Services for--United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2002]

Contents:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0826115047

OCLC:

47013230