Correctional Mental Health: From Theory to Best Practice

Correctional Mental Health is a broad-based, balanced guide for students who are learning to treat criminal offenders in a correctional mental health practice. Featuring a wide selection of readings, this edited text offers a thorough grounding in theory, current research, professional practice, and clinical experience. It emphasizes a biopsychosocial approach to caring for the estimated 20% of all U.S. prisoners who have a serious mental disorder. Providing a balance between theoretical and practical perspectives throughout, the text also provides readers with a big-picture framework for assessing current correctional mental health and criminal justice issues, offering clear strategies for addressing these challenges.

• | Author: Thomas J. Fagan
• | Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• | Publication Date: Nov 03, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 432 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1412972566
• | ISBN-13: 9781412972567