Mental health needs of federal female offenders.

Derkzen, Dena; Booth, Laura; Taylor, Kelly; McConnell, Ashley

doi:10.1037/a0029653

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“…Using the full criteria, including the BSI dimension scores and all the elements of the DHS, over 60% of incoming women would need further assessment, and possibly, further mental health services. These figures are consistent with the very high rates of mental disorder recently found among a representative sample of federal women, 69% of whom met the DSM-IV diagnosis lifetime diagnostic criteria for major depressive episodes, 83% for antisocial personality disorder, and 80% for substance abuse disorder [29]. In addition, 70% of women in CSC scoring above the established cut-off scores on the CoMHISS have serious problems with substance abuse.…”

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Results of the Computerized Mental Health Screening System for Female Offenders

Stewart¹,

Archambault²,

Wilton³

2013

J Socialomics

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Objective: To estimate the proportion of incoming female offenders in the Canadian federal correctional system requiring mental health services based on results of a Computerized Mental Health Intake Screening System (CoMHISS). Method:Consecutive admissions to the five regional women's prisons in the Correctional Service of Canada were approached to consent to participate in the CoMHISS. The screening process combines two psychological self-report measures, the Brief Symptom Inventory, and the Depression Hopelessness and Suicide Screening Form.Results were analyzed based on the percentage of women who met established cut-off scores on the measures and further analyzed by Aboriginal ethnicity.Results: Sixty-two percent of the sample reported elevated levels of psychological distress that would warrant further assessment. Although higher for Aboriginal women, the mean scores did not differ significantly from those of non-Aboriginal women. The rate of co-occurring substance abuse among women reporting psychological distress was estimated at 70%. Conclusions:Planning for the delivery of mental health services for federally sentenced women should consider their high rates and variety of psychological problems. Specific correctional treatment planning requires attention to criminogenic needs as well as mental health issues and serious substance abuse problems. Mental health providers for women in prison should be aware of the significant likelihood of co-morbid substance abuse disorders and mental health problems and prepare women to identify follow up services to address these problems on release. Journal of SocialomicsJ o u r n a l o f Soc ia lo m ic s

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Results of the Computerized Mental Health Screening System for Female Offenders

Stewart¹,

Archambault²,

Wilton³

2013

J Socialomics

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“…Successful treatment and aftercare also requires greater integration of medical, psychiatric and substance use treatment to meet the complex needs of DUWOs (Best et al, 2008;Derkzen et al, 2013;Farkas et al, 2007;Fedock et al, 2013;Grella and Greenwell, 2007;Hall et al 2013;Peltan and Cellucci, 2011;Plourde et al, 2012;Walters and Magaletta, 2015). The separation of such services either in prison or in the community does not give sufficient weight to the inter-related nature of women's needs -for example mental health services and drug services may not fully appreciate the impact of co-morbidity on both conditions and may attempt to tackle them one at a time or through medication without psychosocial support (Carlson et al, 2010;Grella and Greenwell, 2007;Salisbury and Van Voorhis, 2009).…”

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Effective interventions for drug using women offenders: A narrative literature review

Grace

2017

Journal of Substance Use

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A detailed understanding of the effectiveness of interventions designed to meet drug using women offenders' (DUWOs) complex needs is essential to maximise success. This article reports on a narrative literature review of evaluations of interventions designed to assist DUWOs in their recovery from drug use and in their desistance from offending. It aims to identify gaps in that research and point to possible directions for future studies. It shows that successful interventions are likely to be intensive, of significant duration, multi-dimensional and inter-disciplinary. Evaluations must similarly be designed to take into account all individual and structural factors. Qualitative longitudinal research which incorporates DUWOs' opinions on their needs might best inform the development of interventions tailored to meeting those needs. Evaluation design should acknowledge the importance of progress as well as outcomes and be designed to follow DUWOs through their whole sentence rather than focusing on a single intervention/point in time without the context of what came before and what might or should happen in the future.

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“…The first reason that profiling is ineffective is that financial crime, in all its heterogeneity, is the crime of the average manager, people 'just like us' whose latent criminality is not signalled by homelessness (Draine et al 2002), a marker such as a tattoo (Post 1968), the smell of despair (Schnall et al 2008) or the overt psychological disorders and learning disabilities evident among many petty criminals (Derkzen et al 2013;Butler et al 2006). Another reason is because there are uncertainties about who is committing financial crimes-in particular who is not being caught or simply not being prosecuted (Shapiro 1985)-and why they are committing those crimes.…”

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Financial Crimes: Psychological, Technological, and Ethical Issues

Dion¹,

Weisstub²,

Richet³

2016

International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine

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The book series International Library of Ethics, Law and the New Medicine comprises volumes with an international and interdisciplinary focus. The aim of the Series is to publish books on foundational issues in (bio) ethics, law, international health care and medicine. The 28 volumes that have already appeared in this series address aspects of aging, mental health, AIDS, preventive medicine, bioethics and many other current topics. This Series was conceived against the background of increasing globalization and interdependency of the world's cultures and governments, with mutual influencing occurring throughout the world in all fields, most surely in health care and its delivery. By means of this Series we aim to contribute and cooperate to meet the challenge of our time: how to aim human technology to good human ends, how to deal with changed values in the areas of religion, society, culture and the self-definition of human persons, and how to formulate a new way of thinking, a new ethic. We welcome book proposals representing the broad interest of the interdisciplinary and international focus of the series. We especially welcome proposals that address aspects of 'new medicine', meaning advances in research and clinical health care, with an emphasis on those interventions and alterations that force us to re-examine foundational issues.More information about this series at

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Mental health needs of federal female offenders.

Cited by 24 publications

References 59 publications

Results of the Computerized Mental Health Screening System for Female Offenders

Results of the Computerized Mental Health Screening System for Female Offenders

Effective interventions for drug using women offenders: A narrative literature review

Financial Crimes: Psychological, Technological, and Ethical Issues

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