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Título: Evaluating mental health courts as an ideal mental health intervention.(Report)
Autor: Hughes, Shannon ; Peak, Terry
Assuntos: Administration Of Criminal Justice -- Social Aspects ; Evidence-Based Medicine -Social Aspects ; Mental Health Courts -- Laws, Regulations And Rules ; Mentally Ill Persons - Cases
Publicado em: Best Practices in Mental Health, Dec, 2012, Vol.8(2), p.20(18)
Descrição: Mental health courts (MHCs) represent a rapidly flourishing partnership between
the mental health and criminal justice systems. No article to date has critically examined
this new form of specialty court from the lens of the mental health system. This article will
describe and evaluate MHCs against a comprehensive set of criteria that define an
ideal mental healthintervention, including theoretical, empirical, values-based, and
pragmatic considerations. The discussion begins with the framework for identifying
evidence-based practices in mental health and continues with an examination of the
current evidence related to each of nine criteria of an ideal mental health intervention. In
some respects, MHCs appear to offer a promising addition to mental health
and criminal justice systems; however, the fast growth of MHCs across the nation may have
outpaced their theoretical and empirical support. Keywords: evidence-based
practice;mental health courts; mental health interventions; therapeutic jurisprudence
Idioma: English
Identificador: ISSN: 1553-555X
Fonte: Cengage Learning, Inc.