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3 results foundAuthor: Koning, Pierre Title: The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on Human Capital Summary: This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behavior later in life using data of Australian twins. It measures conduct disorder with a rich set of indicators based on diagnostic criteria from psychiatry. Using ordinary least squares and twin fixed effects estimation approaches, it finds that early (pre-18) conduct disorder problems significantly affect both human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behavior over the life course. In addition, it finds that conduct disorder is more deleterious if these behaviors occur earlier in life. Details: Bonn, Germany: IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor), 2010. 34p. Source: IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 4940; Internet Resource Year: 2010 Country: Australia URL: Shelf Number: 118598 Keywords: Antisocial Personality DisordersConduct Disorders in ChildrenMental Health, Juveniles |
Author: Kinscherff, Robert Title: A Primer for Mental Practitioners Working With Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System Summary: Many mental health practitioners were trained in programs or at a time when very little attention was paid during the course of training to youth involved in the juvenile justice system. For a variety of reasons, general clinical training does not ordinarily equip a mental health practitioner to operate within the juvenile justice context. Practitioners who have been trained within more recently developed programs with a “forensic” emphasis may be more familiar with adults within the criminal justice system than with juveniles, more focused upon technical assessments, such as competency to stand trial, than upon youth-specific developmental and functional assessments, or relatively unfamiliar with the emerging literature regarding youth with mental health needs who have had contact with the juvenile justice system or penetrated to its deeper end programs. This paper provides an overview for mental health practitioners who provide professional services to youth who are involved with the juvenile justice system. This overview emphasizes emerging research and practices, the emerging conceptualization of trauma and its implications for youth involved with the juvenile justice system, and implications for policy and practice.While primarily intended for mental health professionals working within system of care communities or interested in developing a system of care collaboration in their area, this paper is relevant for any mental health practitioner providing professional services to youth involved or at risk of involvement in the juvenile justice system. It is also relevant for juvenile court and juvenile justice professionals whose work brings them into contact with youth with significant mental health needs. Details: Washington, DC: Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health, 2012. 28p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 1, 2012 at http://www.tapartnership.org/docs/jjResource_mentalHealthPrimer.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://www.tapartnership.org/docs/jjResource_mentalHealthPrimer.pdf Shelf Number: 125833 Keywords: Juvenile JusticeMental Health ServicesMental Health, Juveniles |
Author: McDonald, Theodore W. Title: A Statewide and Multimodal Assessment of the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections' Clinical Services Program Summary: During 2007, a pilot program was established that housed, for the first time, an on-site mental health clinician in one of the 12 juvenile detention centers (JDCs) in Idaho. This clinician worked with juveniles detained in the JDC in Bonneville County, and a principal component of his work was to screen detained juveniles for mental health and substance abuse problems, and to make provisional diagnoses of these problems when warranted. The clinician also recommended services in the community for juveniles with provisionally diagnosed mental health or substance abuse problems when they were released into the community. An internal evaluation of this program suggested that it was successful in identifying mental health and substance abuse problems (83% of the screened juveniles were provisionally diagnosed with a mental health problem, a substance abuse problem, or both) and in linking juveniles with these problems with community-based services upon release. Some preliminary data also suggested that the resources provided by the clinician helped reduce future recidivism (as measured by subsequent bookings of previously detained juveniles) and reduced problem behavior (most notably assaults) in the Bonneville County JDC. The project appeared well received by judges and juvenile probation officers in eastern Idaho, both of whom received contact and recommendations from the clinicians as they worked with juveniles from the JDC; 100% of these law enforcement personnel who completed a survey on the pilot project recommended that it continue. The pilot project appeared so successful that it was expanded in 2008 to all 12 JDCs in Idaho; in addition to the JDC in Bonneville County, clinicians were hired to serve in the JDCs in Ada, Bannock, Bonner, Canyon, Fremont, Kootenai, Lemhi, Minidoka, Nez Perce, Twin Falls, and Valley counties. This expanded clinical services project was conducted as a partnership among the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections (IDJC), the Juvenile Justice Children’s Mental Health Workgroup (JJCMH), and the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW). IDJC, which was responsible for oversight of the project, contracted with researchers from the Center for Health Policy at Boise State University (BSU), to evaluate the expanded project. The evaluation consisted of data collected in three waves. The first wave involved the collection of data from clinicians at the JDCs; this information included booking charges, mental health and substance abuse screening information, information on previous and provisional diagnoses of mental health and substance abuse problems, and information on service recommendations made by the clinicians. The second wave of data collection involved information gleaned from surveys that were mailed to parents of juveniles recently released from the JDCs; these surveys asked questions about whether the parents had been contacted by clinicians and given recommendations for services for their children, and whether their children had accessed any recommended services. The third wave of data collection involved information captured from surveys of judges and juvenile probation officers, which asked questions about contact by JDC clinicians, the value of recommendations made and information provided, and the value of the program as a whole. Details: Boise, ID: Center for Health Policy, Boise State University, 2009. 36p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 2, 2012 at http://www.idjc.idaho.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=TApyIjt9bV4%3D&tabid=92 Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.idjc.idaho.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=TApyIjt9bV4%3D&tabid=92 Shelf Number: 127098 Keywords: Juvenile CorrectionsJuvenile Justice (Idaho)Mental Health, Juveniles |