Treatment of Offenders with Mental Disorders - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1572302712 ISBN 13: 9781572302716

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 1998

Synopsis

This volume presents current treatment approaches for offenders with mental disorders in a variety of settings. After reviewing administrative and legal issues in the provision of care, the volume addresses therapeutic work with inpatients, outpatients, and incarcerated persons. Separate chapters cover special issues in treatment of sexual offenders, offenders with mental retardation, and juvenile offenders. Throughout, the approaches featured are interdisciplinary and eclectic, incorporating biological and psychological perspectives.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"A superb compendium of state-of-the-art clinical, legal, and administrative strategies for dealing with offenders with mental disorders. Comprehensive in coverage, incisive in analysis, and lucidly written, this empirically and theoretically sophisticated work has its feet firmly planted in practical application. Professionals whose work puts them in contact with offenders with mental disorders will find this a 'must-read' book, and one to which they will frequently return." John Monahan, PhD, Doherty Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Legal Medicine, University of Virginia

About the Author:

Robert M. Wettstein, MD, is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He was formerly the Editor of Behavioral Sciences and the Law and has published widely in the area of mental health and the law.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1572302712
• ISBN 13: 9781572302716
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 438
• Editor: Wettstein Robert M.