TY - JOUR
T1 - Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes
T2 - "What Works" in an Intervention for Justice-Involved Persons With Mental Illness
AU - Van Horn, Stephanie A.
AU - Morgan, Robert D.
AU - Brusman-Lovins, Lori
AU - Littlefield, Andrew K.
AU - Hunter, Joe T.
AU - Gigax, Greg
AU - Ridley, Kim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 American Psychological Association.
PY - 2018/6/14
Y1 - 2018/6/14
N2 - Interventions that focus on the psychiatric and criminogenic needs of justice-involved persons withmental illness are rare. A Treatment Manual for Justice Involved Persons with Mental Illness: ChangingLives and Changing Outcomes (CLCO) was developed specifically for meeting these co-occurring needs.Although results from an initial evaluation indicated that CLCO successfully resulted in reducedsymptomatology and some aspects of criminal risk, much additional work examining the effectivenessof CLCO remains to be done. The present evaluation examined the extent to which offenders gainedknowledge (i.e., content retention) throughout the program, the extent to which content retention waspredictive of program completion, and the extent to which treatment engagement (i.e., session attendanceand homework completion) was predictive of program completion. Participants consisted of male andfemale felony offenders in a residential treatment facility (n = 130), and dually diagnosed male offendersin a residential treatment facility (n = 39). Results indicated that participants in this intervention retainedtreatment content, and this content retention was predictive of treatment completion. Implications ofthese findings suggest that CLCO is a promising new intervention for justice-involved persons withmental illness.
AB - Interventions that focus on the psychiatric and criminogenic needs of justice-involved persons withmental illness are rare. A Treatment Manual for Justice Involved Persons with Mental Illness: ChangingLives and Changing Outcomes (CLCO) was developed specifically for meeting these co-occurring needs.Although results from an initial evaluation indicated that CLCO successfully resulted in reducedsymptomatology and some aspects of criminal risk, much additional work examining the effectivenessof CLCO remains to be done. The present evaluation examined the extent to which offenders gainedknowledge (i.e., content retention) throughout the program, the extent to which content retention waspredictive of program completion, and the extent to which treatment engagement (i.e., session attendanceand homework completion) was predictive of program completion. Participants consisted of male andfemale felony offenders in a residential treatment facility (n = 130), and dually diagnosed male offendersin a residential treatment facility (n = 39). Results indicated that participants in this intervention retainedtreatment content, and this content retention was predictive of treatment completion. Implications ofthese findings suggest that CLCO is a promising new intervention for justice-involved persons withmental illness.
KW - Criminal justice
KW - Inmate
KW - Person with mental illness
KW - Psychotherapy
KW - treatment
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85048393009&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/ser0000248
DO - 10.1037/ser0000248
M3 - Article
C2 - 29902025
AN - SCOPUS:85048393009
JO - Psychological Services
JF - Psychological Services
SN - 1541-1559
ER -