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Crabtree, Taryn S.

Risk Assessment Tools and Mental Health Courts: Preliminary Findings.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Risk Assessment Tools and Mental Health Courts: Preliminary Findings.
Author:	Crabtree, Taryn S.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019
Description:	177 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-05, Section: A.
Notes:	Advisor: Dickie, Ida.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-05A.
Subject:	Clinical psychology.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27545193
ISBN:	9781392717691

Risk Assessment Tools and Mental Health Courts: Preliminary Findings.
Crabtree, Taryn S.

Risk Assessment Tools and Mental Health Courts: Preliminary Findings. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2019 - 177 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Psy.D.)--Spalding University, 2019.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The use of incarceration as a response to criminal behavior committed by individuals with mental health problems has proven to be largely ineffective. As a result, Mental Health Courts (MHCs) have developed as an alternative to incarceration and have recently begun to explore how to use risk assessment to guide treatment and case management services for offenders with mental health issues, including substance abuse. However, the process of using risk assessment to determine which individuals are best suited to participate in MHCs is still in its infancy. Although several types of risk assessment exist, it is not clear which types are most beneficial for guiding the case management, supervision, and treatment needs of offenders with mental health problems. To develop a risk profile of the participants in a sample in a Midwest MHC, the current study used three different types of risk assessment tools: 1) the Level of Service Inventory-Revised (LSI-R) (actuarial); 2) Inventory of Offender Risk, Needs, and Strengths (IORNS) (self-report); and 3) Historical-Clinical Risk Management-20, Version 3 (HCR-20 V3) (structured professional guidelines). Outcome variables included recidivism over a 6 month and 1 year period, whereas recidivism is defined as a new arrest, incarceration, or conviction (Honegger, 2015), and intermediate recidivism, which is defined as any program violation incurred during participation in the MHC program. Overall, results of this study suggest clinician-rated tools, such as actuarial and structured professional judgment tools, were most effective at predicting overall recidivism. However, self-report instruments appear to be more effective at predicting the number of charges across recidivism events. Therefore, both types of risk assessment appear to have utility and provide valuable information. Further recommendations are offered for other uses of risk assessment in MHCs, including reduction of recidivism by targeting specific criminogenic risk factors in addition to traditional mental health treatment.

ISBN: 9781392717691Subjects--Topical Terms:

328102
Clinical psychology.

Risk Assessment Tools and Mental Health Courts: Preliminary Findings.
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