Incarcerating Youth With Mental Health Problems

White, Clair

doi:10.1177/1541204015609965

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“…Healthier families can reduce risk for children to have behavior problems and legal issues. White (2016) determined that African American children with mental health problems receive more severe treatment from the juvenile justice system. She speculated this may be due to judges' implicit racial biases and negative stereotypes, as they may erroneously ascribe negative attributes to African American and feel that these youth are dangerous and need to be held accountable for their actions (White, 2016).…”

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“…White (2016) determined that African American children with mental health problems receive more severe treatment from the juvenile justice system. She speculated this may be due to judges' implicit racial biases and negative stereotypes, as they may erroneously ascribe negative attributes to African American and feel that these youth are dangerous and need to be held accountable for their actions (White, 2016). Alternatively, judges may feel it is the state's responsibility to intervene so that children of color get the treatment they need, doubting that the families and impoverished neighborhoods would be capable of fulfilling those needs.…”

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Incorporating Multicultural Couple and Family Therapy Into Incarcerated Settings

Tadros

Fye

McCrone

et al. 2019

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Incarceration rates have increased significantly since the 1990s, with more than two million adults in federal, state, and local facilities. More than half of the offenders report a history of mental health issues, highlighting the importance of offenders having access to effective therapeutic approaches, including individual, couples, and family counseling. Traditionally, the focus of mental health services has been individual treatment; however, family members are also significantly impacted by the offender’s absence during incarceration. Incorporating family members into treatment can serve to improve relationships, leading to better outcomes at reentry and reductions in recidivism rates. Given the preponderance of persons of color in the incarcerated population, diversity issues in counseling must also be addressed. The purpose of the underlined article is to explore the implications of incorporating multicultural family therapy into incarcerated settings.

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Incorporating Multicultural Couple and Family Therapy Into Incarcerated Settings

Tadros

Fye

McCrone

et al. 2019

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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“…Child functioning is likely to be related to a youth’s level of involvement with the juvenile justice system. Mental health need and past traumatic experiences have been found to be associated with more severe juvenile justice sanctions (Espinosa et al, 2013; White, 2016). Juvenile justice youth in detention report higher rates of mental health disorders (Abram, Teplin, McClelland, & Dulcan, 2003; Teplin, Abram, McClelland, Dulcan, & Mericle, 2002), while youth with unmet social service needs were more likely to be involved in the juvenile justice system than in other public systems (Hazen, Hough, Landsverk, & Wood, 2004; Maschi, Hatcher, Schwalbe, & Rosato, 2008).…”

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“…It is possible that certain subgroups of youth are more likely to experience certain patterns of institutional placement. Thus, this study also examines how extralegal factors such as family status, mental health, and substance use are related to the different patterns of institutional placement (Fader, Harris, Jones, & Poulin, 2001; McCoy, Walker, & Rodney, 2012; White, 2016). We explore how demographic, legal, and extralegal factors distinguish among these groups.…”

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Longitudinal Patterns of Secure Institutional Placement Among Serious Adolescent Offenders

Lee¹,

Taxman

Mulvey³

et al. 2018

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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This study identifies longitudinal patterns of institutional placement to understand experiences in the juvenile justice system. We used monthly calendar data from the Pathways to Desistance study ( N = 1,354), which focuses on understanding how serious adolescent offenders desist from antisocial activity. Youth between 14 and 18 years of age were followed for 7 years. We used group-based trajectory modeling to identify longitudinal patterns of institutional placement. We also examined bivariate and multivariate associations between our identified groups and demographic, legal, and extralegal factors. We chose the 4-group solution, which reflected a pattern of steady time in the community (33.3%), and three patterns of youth spending varying (22.5%), declining (24.4%), and steady high (18.8%) time in placement. Significant differences between groups suggest that youth from the most disadvantaged contexts and those who were most likely to have trouble in school and live in disorganized neighborhoods spent the most time in placement.

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“…Griner and Smith (2006), in their seminal meta-analytic review, showed that culturally adapted mental health interventions were 4 times more effective when tailored to one cultural group versus to clients from a variety of cultural backgrounds. It has been documented that White youth prior to and upon contact with the justice system receive psychiatric services at much higher rates than do Latinx youth (White, 2016), even when the behavioral health needs are equivalent to those of other ethnicities and races (Winkelman et al, 2017). Rather than basing all services on the needs of White youth, research that provides a nuanced understanding of trauma exposure as it relates to the Latinx community, and by gender in particular, is warranted.…”

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Assessing Traumatic Experiences of Justice-Involved Latinx Youth A Systematic Review

Hoskins¹

2020

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Background: Traumatic experiences have been linked to the unmet behavioral health needs of justice-involved youth. Unmet behavioral health needs are some of the most salient predictors of initial justice involvement and recidivism. Latinx youth are one of the most overrepresented ethnic and racial minority groups in the Juvenile Justice System in the United States. The primary aim of this systematic review was focused on justice-involved, Latinx youth in order to compare traumatic experiences and PTSD rates by race/ethnicity and gender. Methods: To ensure methodological rigor and reduce bias, a protocol was developed to outline criteria for study inclusion and to identify relevant data for extraction. For inclusion in this systematic review, studies had to be (a) observational or randomized controlled trials, (b) assess either trauma exposure or symptoms of justice-involved Latinx youth 13 to 18 years of age, (c) sample detained youth in the juvenile justice system, and (d) compare Latinx trauma experience or symptoms by gender and/or by ethnicity/race. A librarian at the University of California, San Francisco assisted to identify seminal articles in the field of juvenile justice and to identify subject headings and keyword terms from titles and abstracts. Results: Seven peer-reviewed articles were collected from PsycINFO, PubMed, and EMBASE, analyzed, and summarized. Themes from the literature were organized into the following sections: (a) participant characteristics, (b) measurement of trauma experience and PTSD, (c) types of studies, (d) trauma rates, (e) trauma exposure by race/ethnicity and Latinx gender, and (f) PTSD by race/ethnicity and gender. There were differences in the number and types of traumatic experiences that the youth were asked about, which precluded allowing direct data comparisons across studies. Most of the studies varied in their measurement of PTSD. Trauma exposure rates by race/ethnicity and Latinx gender was mixed. Latinx youth disclosed PTSD symptoms at a statistically significant higher rate than did White and Black youth. Conclusion: Trauma rate differences varied by study, presumably related to a lack of construct equivalence and variability in the number and types of traumatic experiences assessed by the measures. Further research is needed to inform appropriate assessment and treatment of justice-involved Latinx youth.

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Incarcerating Youth With Mental Health Problems

Cited by 23 publications

References 97 publications

Incorporating Multicultural Couple and Family Therapy Into Incarcerated Settings

Incorporating Multicultural Couple and Family Therapy Into Incarcerated Settings

Longitudinal Patterns of Secure Institutional Placement Among Serious Adolescent Offenders

Assessing Traumatic Experiences of Justice-Involved Latinx Youth A Systematic Review

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