Mental health services in the county jail: A critical partnership?

Psychological Reports

Volumn 84, Issue 3 PART 2, 1999, Pages 1099-1104

  Muzekari, Louis H ^a   Hatton, Allison Y ^b   Lonigan, Christopher J ^b   Rowe, Chuck ^b  

^a Lexington County CMHC   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; CONTRACT SERVICES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PRISONERS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOUTH CAROLINA;

EID: 0346545948     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1999.84.3c.1099     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. ABRAM, K. M., & TEPLIN, L. A. (1991) Co-occurring disorders among mentally ill jail detainees: implications for public policy. American Psychologist, 46, 1036-1045.
2. ADAMS, R. D. (1988) Exemplary county mental health programs: the diversion of people with mental illness from jails and in-jail mental health services. Washington, DC: National Association of Counties.
3. BONNER, R. L., & RICH, A. R. (1990) Psychosocial vulnerability, life stress, and suicide ideation in a jail population: a cross-validation study. Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior, 20, 213-224.
4. GIBBS, J. J. (1987) Symptoms of psychopathology among jail prisoners: the effects of exposure to the jail environment. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 14, 288-310.
5. HAYES, L. M., & ROWAN, J. R. (1988) National study of jail suicides: seven years later. Alexandria, VA: National Center on Institutions and Alternatives.
6. OGLOFF, J. R. P., & OTTO, R. K. (1989) Mental health intervention in jails. In P. A. Keller & S. R. Heyman (Eds.), Innovations in clinical practice: a source book. Vol. 8. Sarasota, FL: Professional Resource Exchange. Pp. 357-369.
7. PETERS, R. H., & KEARNS, W. D. (1992) Drug abuse history and treatment needs of jail inmates. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 18, 355-366.
8. PETRICH, J. (1976) Psychiatric treatment in jail: an experiment in health-care delivery. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 27, 413-415.
9. RINGEL, N. B., & SEGAL, A. C. (1986) A mental health center's influence in a county jail. Journal of Community Psychology, 14, 171-182.
10. RUNCK, B. (1983) Study of 43 jails shows mental health services and inmate safety are compatible. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 34, 1007-1008.
11. SNOW, W. H., & BRIAR, H. A. (1990) The convergence of the mentally disordered and the jail population. Journal of Offender Counseling, Services and Rehabilitation, 15, 147-162.
12. STEADMAN, H. J., MCCARTY, D. W., & MORRISSEY, J. P. (1989) The mentally ill in jail: planning for essential services. New York: Guilford.
13. TORREY, E. F., STIEBER, J., EZEKIEL, J. D., WOLFE, S. M., SHARFSTEIN, J. H., NOBLE, J., & FLYNN, L. M. (1993) Special section: mental illness and the law: criminalizing the seriously mentally ill: the abuse of jails as mental hospitals. Innovations & Research, 2(1), 11-14.