Using the referral decision scale to screen mentally ill jail detainees: Validity and implementation issues

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 205-215

  Veysey, Bonita M ^a   Steadman, Henry J ^a   Morrissey, Joseph P ^b   Johnsen, Matthew ^b   Beckstead, Jason W ^b  

^a Policy Research Associates Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MENTAL DISEASE; PRISONER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCREENING TEST;

ADULT; FEMALE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; PRISONERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEXAS; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0031968206     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025794104048     Document Type: Article

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