Serving mentally ill offenders : challenges and opportunities for mental health professionals / Gerald Landsberg [and others].
| Uniform Title: | Springer series on family violence.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Springer,
[2002], ©2002.
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| Series: | Springer series on family violence.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 354 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
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
- 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.