Forensic assertive community treatment: Preventing incarceration of adults with severe mental illness

Psychiatric Services

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1285-1293

  Lamberti, J Steven ^a   Weisman, Robert ^a   Faden, Dara I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMUNITY CARE; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRISON; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COST SAVINGS; CRIME; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRISONERS; PRISONS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 7444268929     PISSN: 10752730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.55.11.1285     Document Type: Article

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