{"title":"A Treatment Program for Adolescents Who Commit Sex Offenses","authors":"April Coe Hout, S. Domon, Nancy Strait, J. Alford","doi":"10.1080/10973430208408424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10973430208408424","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Forty percent of the reported sexual abuse of children is committed by persons under the age of twenty (Pithers & Gray, 1999). With the awareness of the extent to which children and adolescents perpetrate sexual abuse against children, specialized treatment programs have been developed across the country to treat this population. The current article describes an intensive program for the intensive treatment of male adolescents who have committed sex offenses. The clinical characteristics of adolescents who commit sex offenses and the problems faced in treating them are discussed. The basic structure of the clinical program is presented, with particular attention given to its cognitive-behavioral underpinnings. Family, individual and group therapy to treat a personal history of being abused are also discussed. The paper ends with suggestions for outcomes research that could help to clarify which aspects of treatment are most successful.","PeriodicalId":166369,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126841586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “Forensication” of Public Sector Mental Health","authors":"J. Alford","doi":"10.1080/10973430208408422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10973430208408422","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Kansas vs. Hendricks U. S. Supreme Court decision of 1996 has been widely criticized by a variety of mental health professionals. Concerns have been expressed that its provisions for the indefinite involuntary commitment of persons who have committed sex offenses will weaken the protection of patients' rights and lead to a huge increase in forensic inpatient treatment for individuals who historically not responded well to treatment. This paper will review how states have begun to respond to the Hendricks decision. It will also examine how the Hendricks decision is part of a larger trend towards the “forensication” of public sector mental health services. Forensication refers to the ongoing process though which ever-increasing public sector resources are applied to forensic populations. Increasing tensions between the need to protect public safety and the need to attend to patient rights within a consumer-based approach will also be examined. Finally, recommendations for coping with changing expectations for mental health professionals will also be presented.","PeriodicalId":166369,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills","volume":"05 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128278481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Randy Starr on His Story and on Forensics","authors":"R. Lundin","doi":"10.1080/10973430208408416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10973430208408416","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166369,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125167388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Wilder, A. Masuda, M. Baham, Caroline O' Conner
{"title":"An Analysis of the Training Level Necessary to Increase Independent Question Asking in an Adult with Schizophrenia","authors":"D. Wilder, A. Masuda, M. Baham, Caroline O' Conner","doi":"10.1080/10973430208408418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10973430208408418","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The question asking behavior of an adult male with chronic schizophrenia was targeted for improvement. In the first training phase, a brief pre-phase instructional lecture on the importance of asking questions during a conversation was followed by a 3-step prompting procedure and praise for appropriate question asking behavior during sessions. The second training phase consisted of the same pre-phase instructions plus a pre-phase discrete trial training component that the participant mastered before sessions began. Sessions during the second phase were identical to those during the first phase. Independent question asking increased somewhat during the first training phase and increased substantially during the second training phase. The necessity of the discrete trial training component and issues surrounding skill generalization with this population are discussed.","PeriodicalId":166369,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134375419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Book Review of “Implementing Early Intervention in Psychosis: A Guide to Establishing Early Psychosis Services”","authors":"A. Watson","doi":"10.1080/10973430208408426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10973430208408426","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract By Jane Edwards Q Patrick McGony London: Martin Dunitz, Ltd.; 160 pages; “29.95","PeriodicalId":166369,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127007390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effectiveness of a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Training Program for Community Services Staff","authors":"S. Silverstein, Thomas C. Jewell","doi":"10.1080/10973430208408420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10973430208408420","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The implementation of a pilot-project for training community services staff in empirically-validated psychiatric rehabilitation techniques is described. Thirteen staff from six community settings were trained in how to conduct the UCLA Social and Independent Living Skills modules and Personal Effectiveness Training (PET) groups. The investigators report on the effectiveness of utilizing a brief seminar-type training format with one-year consultation follow-up. Results provide evidence for the effectiveness of such a training procedure. Specifically, results indicated that participants' knowledge of materials taught in the course increased and that during a three to twelve month post-training follow-up period, the number of new groups implemented increased substantially. The importance of designing similar training programs to disseminate psychiatric rehabilitation technologies to community settings is emphasized.","PeriodicalId":166369,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115400265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Newspaper Coverage of Mental Illness: Is It Changing?","authors":"O. Wahl, A. Wood, Renee Richards","doi":"10.1080/10973430208408417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10973430208408417","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Because the public gets much of its knowledge of mental illness from the news media, it is important to understand what those media report about mental illnesses. It is also useful to know whether or not news coverage of mental illness is changing. The current study looked at 300 newspaper articles containing the key phrase “mental illness” from 6 different newspapers for 1989 and for 1999. Each article was read and rated with respect to a variety of elements, including what specific disorders were named, what the main themes of each article were, and what was the overall tone of the article. Results indicated that there was more coverage of issues of stigma and mental health insurance parity, fewer themes of dangerousness, and fewer articles with negative tone in 1999 than in 1989. However, dangerousness was still the most common theme of 1999 articles and negative articles were still twice as likely to occur as positive ones. Articles in 1999, as in 1989, tended not to name specific psychiatric disorders, tended not to describe the symptoms of those disorders named, and rarely included the perspectives of mental health consumers.","PeriodicalId":166369,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115353001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Section on Forensic Mental Health","authors":"J. Alford","doi":"10.1080/10973430208408421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10973430208408421","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":166369,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132630972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Chinese Version of the Relative Assessment Interview (CRAI) for Offenders with Mental Illness","authors":"H. Tsang, V. Pearson","doi":"10.1080/10973430208408419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10973430208408419","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Twenty-three items relating to the forensic nature of mental illness, based on a model proposed by Tsang, Pearson & Yuen (2002), and clinical experience, were added to the original Relative Assessment Interview (Barrowclough & Tarrier, 1992). The expanded version was then translated and validated by 10 panelists experienced in psychiatric rehabilitation. With minor revisions, the Chinese Version of Relative Assessment Interview (CRAI) consists of three parts. The first part has 47 items under subheadings including background information, household tasks, money matters, interests and activities of the relative, and relationship with the parent. The second part has 23 items and concerns of the forensic background of the person with mental illness. The third part is the last question which asks the respondent about anything not covered in the previous two parts. The Chinese version shows potential to be applied in Hong Kong and other Chinese communities in Asia to study the family burden of offenders with mental illness.","PeriodicalId":166369,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133035747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arkansas Partnership Program: An Innovative Continuum of Care Program for Dually Diagnosed Forensic Patients","authors":"T. Cimino, J. Jennings","doi":"10.1080/10973430208408425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10973430208408425","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A unique public-private partnership created a new continuum of care that would effectively bridge the gap between inpatient treatment and community after-care for insanity acquitees suffering from chronic mental illness and substance abuse disorders. Focusing specifically on the needs of dually-diagnosed patients, treatment is delivered in a secure, 42-bed residential facility using a carefully designed series of hierarchical stages that enable residents to gradually build and strengthen their coping and life skills. Following graduation from the residential program, patients receive “assertive community treatment,” which provides enhanced, enduring supports to prevent “revolving door” recidivism. Although the patients have severe chronic diagnoses and have been acquitted of extremely dangerous criminal behavior, eighteen discharged patients have made a successful transition to the community for an average of 508 days without a single relapse into criminal behavior or substance abuse. Only two have required brief temporary readmission for stabilization of mental illness, and one needed inpatient readmission.","PeriodicalId":166369,"journal":{"name":"Psychiatric Rehabilitation Skills","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121342986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}