Diagnosing and Treating Mental Illness

Treating mental illness: generalist versus specialist.

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Identifying, Treating, and Reducing Risk for Offenders with Mental Illness

Individuals with serious and oft en disabling mental illnesses like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression are grossly overrepresented in the criminal justice system. Compared to the general population, the lifetime prevalence rate of these serious mental illnesses in the correctional population is twice as high for both men and women Of off enders with serious mental illness, ne...

Corticosteroids in Neurological and Mental Illness

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Treating offenders with mental illness: a research synthesis.

The purpose of this research synthesis was to examine treatment effects across studies of the service providers to offenders with mental illness. Meta-analytic techniques were applied to 26 empirical studies obtained from a review of 12,154 research documents. Outcomes of interest in this review included measures of both psychiatric and criminal functioning. Although meta-analytic results are b...