Henry J Steadman

..The systems integration strategies employed remained relatively stable over the 5 years. Successful implementation appears to be related to the strategies selected...

..The study evaluated the effectiveness of a three-year outpatient commitment pilot program established in 1994 at Bellevue Hospital in New York City...

..This is the first prospective multisite study on mental health courts with treatment and control groups...

..The majority knew the "basics" of the courts, but fewer knew more nuanced information. A minority also were found to have impairments in legal competence. Implications are discussed...

..Perceived coercion scores were positively correlated with participants' self-reported adherence to injected medications...

..The results suggest that services targeted to diverted individuals with mental illness should address public safety goals, not just those of public health...

..This study estimated current prevalence rates of serious mental illness among adult male and female inmates in five jails during two time periods (four jails in each period)...

..Factors associated with program recommendation decisions and court acceptance decisions were also examined...

..Jail diversion costs and the implications of these results for jail diversion programs and future research are discussed...

..This study sought to describe the implementation of "Kendra's Law" in New York State and examine regional differences in the application of the program...

..This research added four items to the original eight-item screen (BJMHS-R), targeting depression and trauma to improve performance of the screen with women...

..Further, jail sanction use was significantly predicted by increased judicial supervision and number of felons in the court. Implications for MHCs and social monitoring are discussed...

..This article describes ACCESS services and systems integration activities retained by the sites, new funding streams, and strategies used to obtain continued funding...

..The authors surveyed U.S. juvenile mental health courts (JMHCs)...

..CONCLUSIONS: The BJMHS is a practical, efficient tool that jail correction officers can give male detainees on intake screening. However, the screen has an unacceptably high false-negative rate for female detainees...

..However, leverage experience was not associated with treatment compliance and satisfaction, or perceptions of coercion and mandate efficacy, particularly when demographic characteristics were considered...

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..In addition, the length of time from referral to diversion is much longer in these mental health courts than in other types of diversion programs. Implications of these findings are discussed...

..The authors concluded that perceived coercion neither increases nor decreases psychiatric inpatients' medication adherence or use of treatment services after discharge...

..This study assessed the extent to which Medicaid enrollment increased access to and use of services by persons with severe mental illness after their release from jail...

..first of the two core questions around which the ACCESS (Access to Community Care and Effective Services and Supports) evaluation was designed: Does implementation of system-change strategies lead to better integration of service systems?..

..The extent to which persons with severe mental illness lost their Medicaid benefits while detained was determined...

..Logistic regression was used to examine associations between clinical and demographic characteristics and receipt of different types of leverage...

..This study sought to determine whether having Medicaid benefits and receiving behavioral health services are associated with a reduction in recidivism for jail detainees with severe mental illness...

..They present six points on which they disagree with the findings or fault the design of the MacArthur Study. After each point, Dr. Monahan, Dr. Steadman, and other authors of the MacArthur Study Group respond...

..In this article, the development of the COVR software is described and several issues that arise in its administration are discussed...

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..The purpose of the study reported here was to determine the validity of the multiple ICT model in distinguishing between patients with high and low risk of violence in the community when applied to a new sample of individuals...

..The commercial opportunities for a flexible software application that aids clinicians in making systematic, accurate assessments of violence risk appear substantial. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: NOT AVAILABLE ..