Reforming Competence Restoration Statutes: An Outpatient Model [PDF]
Defendants who suffer from mental illness and are found incompetent to stand trial are often ordered committed to an inpatient mental health facility to restore their competence, even if outpatient care may be the better treatment option.
McMahon, Susan A.
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Arrested Adults Awaiting Arraignment: Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Criminal Justice Characteristics and Needs [PDF]
This Study is one of the first to look at the mentally ill during the pre-arraignment process. The pre-arraignment process is an excellent place to identify individuals with mental health and substance abuse problems, to examine those problems, to ...
Broner, Nahama +3 more
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Mental Health in the Workplace: Situation Analyses, United States [PDF]
Mental illness constitutes one of the world\u27s most critical and social health problems. It affects more human lives and wastes more human resources than any other disabling condition. The ILO’s activities promote the inclusion of persons with physical,
Gabriel, Phyllis +1 more
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Guilty But Mentally Ill: The Ethical Dilemma Of Mental Illness As A Tool Of The Prosecution [PDF]
While other jurisdictions use guilty but mentally ill as a compromise verdict to fill the gap between guilty by reason of insanity and a guilty verdict after an unsuccessful insanity defense, Alaska has transformed the status into a prosecutorial tool
Johansen, Lauren G.
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Why It Is Essential to Teach About Mental Health Issues in Criminal Law (And a Primer on How To Do It) [PDF]
Studies consistently show a high prevalence of mental disorders among criminal defendants. Forensic mental health issues thus arise frequently in the criminal justice system and are commonly encountered by prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judgesmuch ...
Richard Redding
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Resilience–Recovery Factors in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Among Female and Male Vietnam Veterans: Hardiness, Postwar Social Support, and Additional Stressful Life Events [PDF]
Structural equation modeling procedures were used to examine relationships among several war zone stressor dimensions, resilience-recovery factors, and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in a national sample of 1,632 Vietnam veterans (26% women and ...
Adams, Gary A. +4 more
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Post-inpatient Attrition from Care “As Usual” in Veterans with Multiple Psychiatric Admissions [PDF]
Disengagement from outpatient care following psychiatric hospitalization is common in high-utilizing psychiatric patients and contributes to intensive care utilization.
Berger, Bertrand +2 more
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Emotion Regulation Deficits in Persons with Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior Disorders [PDF]
Background Conceptualizations of emotion dysregulation (ED) and body-focused repetitive behavior disorders (BFRBDs) imply that ED may be a central component of BFRBDs as well as a factor that distinguishes BFRBDs from non-impairing, subclinical body ...
Alexander, Jennifer R. +4 more
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eHealth has expanded hugely over the last fifteen years and continues to evolve, providing greater benefits for patients, health care professionals and providers alike.
Good, Alice, Sambhanthan, Arunasalam
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Neurosurgery for Psychopaths? An Ethical Analysis [PDF]
Recent developments in neuroscience have inspired proposals to perform deep brain stimulation on psychopathic detainees. We contend that these proposals cannot meet important ethical requirements that hold for both medical research and therapy.
Hübner, Dietmar, White, Lucie
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