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Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions
Michele P. Bratina
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Description for Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions
Paperback. Num Pages: 314 pages, 47 black & white illustrations, 6 black & white tables, 35 black & white halftones, 12 bl. BIC Classification: JKSM; JKVQ; MBPK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 187. .
Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions describes a criminal justice-mental health nexus that touches every population-juvenile and adult male and female offenders, probationers and parolees, the aging adult prison population, and victims of crime. In the United States today, the criminal justice system functions as a mental health provider, but at great cost to society. The author summarizes the historical roots of this crisis and provides an overview of mental illness and symptoms, using graphics to illustrate the most prevalent disorders encountered by police and other first responders. Bratina demonstrates in detail how the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) supports integration ... Read more
Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions describes a criminal justice-mental health nexus that touches every population-juvenile and adult male and female offenders, probationers and parolees, the aging adult prison population, and victims of crime. In the United States today, the criminal justice system functions as a mental health provider, but at great cost to society. The author summarizes the historical roots of this crisis and provides an overview of mental illness and symptoms, using graphics to illustrate the most prevalent disorders encountered by police and other first responders. Bratina demonstrates in detail how the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) supports integration ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138935396
SKU
V9781138935396
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Ref
99-2
About Michele P. Bratina
Michele P. Bratina is an Assistant Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Previously, she was the Forensic and Children's Mental Health Coordinator for the Florida Department of Children and Families in the 19th Judicial Circuit-a role that inspired this book. She is First Vice President of the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice ... Read more
Reviews for Forensic Mental Health: Framing Integrated Solutions
The way we handle mental health and mental illness in our society is neither fair nor effective. We have dumped so much of it onto the criminal justice system, which isn't any good for people who need treatment; it also puts police and correctional officers in impossible situations where they are bound to fail, sometimes tragically. Professor Bratina and the ... Read more