Brief Trauma and Mental Health Assessments for Female Offenders in Addiction Treatment

Implications of Trauma among Male and Female Offenders

Criminal behaviour is believed to arise from a multiplicity of factors, including unemployment and poverty [1,2], low self-control [3], psychological issues [4,5], early conduct problems [6], childhood physical and sexual abuse disorder [5], and social bonding in child-and adulthood [7]. Social-structural influences like family conflict/disruption, financial resources, child-parent and school/p...

Pharmacological treatment in mental health disorders after trauma

Mental health provision for young offenders: service use and cost.

BACKGROUND The full costs of accommodating and supporting young people in the criminal justice system are unknown. There is also concern about the level of mental health needs among young offenders and the provision of appropriate mental health services. AIMS To estimate the full cost of supporting young people in the criminal justice system in England and Wales and to examine the relationshi...

Mental health needs of juvenile offenders.

Without treatment, the child may continue on a path of delinquency and eventually adult crime. Effective assessments of and comprehensive responses to court-involved juveniles with mental health needs can help break this cycle and produce healthier young people who are less likely to act out and commit crimes. The importance of screening and treatment are also discussed in the Delinquency Preve...

Graphical Modelling in Mental Health Risk Assessments

Probabilistic models can be a combination of graph and probability theory that provide numerous advantages when it comes to the representation of domains involving uncertainty. In this paper, we present the development of a chain graph for assessing the risks associated with mental health problems, which is a domain that has high amounts of inherent uncertainty. The Galatean mental health Risk ...