A research-to-practice text offering a biopsychosocial approach to treating criminal offenders
Correctional Mental Health is a broad-based, balanced guide for students who are learning to treat criminal offenders in a correctional mental health practice. Featuring a wide selection of readings, this edited text offers a thorough grounding in theory, current research, professional practice, and clinical experience. It emphasizes a biopsychosocial approach to caring for the estimated 20% of all U.S. prisoners who have a serious mental disorder. Providing a balance between theoretical and practical perspectives throughout, the text also provides readers with a big-picture framework for assessing current correctional mental health and criminal justice issues, offering clear strategies for addressing these challenges.
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SECTION ONE: CORRECTIONAL PRACTICE: INTRODUCTION AND FOUNDATION
1. Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems: The New Continuum of Care System
2. Comparison of Correctional and Community Mental Health Service Delivery Models
3. Managing the Mentally Ill from a Correctional Administrator's Perspective
SECTION TWO: ENTERING CORRECTIONAL PRACTICE
4. Clinical Assessment in Correctional Settings
5. Correctional Treatment
6. Issues in Multicultural Correctional Assessment and Treatment
7. Clinical Psychopharmacology in Correctional Settings
8. Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Correctional Practice
SECTION THREE: WORKING WITH SPECIAL POPULATIONS
9. Offenders with Severe and Persistent Mental Illness
10. Mental Health Needs of Female Offenders
11. Substance Abuse and Co-occurring Disorders among Criminal Offenders
12. Assessment and Treatment of Incarcerated Sex Offenders
13. Juvenile Offenders
14. Managing Disruptive Offenders: A Behavioral Perspective
15. Understanding the Broad Corrections Environment: Responding to the Needs of Diverse Inmates
SECTION FOUR: THE FUTURE OF CORRECTIONAL MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE
16. Correctional Mental Health: A Best Practices Future
Key Features
- Includes chapters on a wide selection of topics, written by established correctional practitioners or administrators at the federal, state, or local level or by academics in the field
- Emphasizes current issues and real problems faced by correctional mental health practitioners along with suggested best-practice solutions to prepare students for careers in this field
- Examines special correctional mental health populations such as juveniles, women, and sex offenders, encouraging readers to develop a greater understanding of the unique symptoms and management issues related to group
- Features current best practices and other practical tips in each chapter to help those interested in establishing or managing a correctional mental health practice
- Offers discussion questions in each chapter to stimulate classroom discussion and independent thought, as well as other pedagogical tools for critical thinking
