Effects of an intermediate care program for inmates with severe persistent mental illnesses
- UNCW Author/Contributor (non-UNCW co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Hillary Vaughan (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW )
- Web Site: http://library.uncw.edu/
- Advisor
- Sally MacKain
Abstract: The effects of the Brown Creek Correctional Institute’s Intermediate Care Social Skills
Day Training Program were investigated using a population of forty-three adult male inmates
with severe persistent mental illness. Comparisons were made for similar time periods before,
during and after in regard to level of care, inpatient hospitalizations, behavioral infractions, and
disciplinary segregations. Cost benefits were also investigated. Results indicate that the number
and length of hospitalizations, length and number of disciplinary segregations, and number of
behavioral infractions were lower for inmates during the program. However, some increases
were found in these variables after inmates were transferred to other institutions. This increase
could possibly be explained because of transfer to a lower level of care after participating in the
Social Skills Day Training Program. Cost benefits were also found as a result of the lower
number of hospitalizations, behavioral infractions, and segregations.
Effects of an intermediate care program for inmates with severe persistent mental illnesses
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- Criminals--Rehabilitation--United States, Mentally ill--Care, Mentally ill--Commitment and detention, Mentally ill--Rehabilitation, Mentally ill offenders, Prisoners--Mental health services--United States
- Subjects
- Mentally ill offenders
- Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States
- Mentally ill -- Care
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention
- Mentally ill -- Rehabilitation
- Prisoners -- Mental health services -- United States