Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 An overview of child and adolescent mental health needs in the juvenile justice system
- 2 Psychiatric disorders of youth in detention
- 3 Disproportionate minority confinement
- 4 Police interrogation of youth
- 5 Assessing children's competence to stand trial and to waive Miranda rights: new directions for legal and medical decision-making in juvenile courts
- 6 The etiology of antisocial behavior: biopsychosocial risk factors across development
- 7 Substance abuse in youth offenders
- 8 Suicide and delinquent adolescents
- 9 Juvenile sex offenders
- 10 Educational needs of youth in the juvenile justice system
- 11 Science and the juvenile death penalty
- 12 Medical issues regarding incarcerated adolescents
- 13 Mental health screening and assessment in juvenile justice
- 14 Psychological testing in juvenile justice settings
- 15 Psychopharmacology and juvenile delinquency
- 16 Evidence-based treatment for justice-involved youth
- 17 Community alternatives to incarceration
- 18 Innovative problem-solving court models for justice-involved youth
- 19 Ethical issues of youthful offenders: confidentiality; right to receive and to refuse treatment; seclusion and restraint
- 20 Post-adjudicatory assessment of youth
- Index
1 - An overview of child and adolescent mental health needs in the juvenile justice system
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1 An overview of child and adolescent mental health needs in the juvenile justice system
- 2 Psychiatric disorders of youth in detention
- 3 Disproportionate minority confinement
- 4 Police interrogation of youth
- 5 Assessing children's competence to stand trial and to waive Miranda rights: new directions for legal and medical decision-making in juvenile courts
- 6 The etiology of antisocial behavior: biopsychosocial risk factors across development
- 7 Substance abuse in youth offenders
- 8 Suicide and delinquent adolescents
- 9 Juvenile sex offenders
- 10 Educational needs of youth in the juvenile justice system
- 11 Science and the juvenile death penalty
- 12 Medical issues regarding incarcerated adolescents
- 13 Mental health screening and assessment in juvenile justice
- 14 Psychological testing in juvenile justice settings
- 15 Psychopharmacology and juvenile delinquency
- 16 Evidence-based treatment for justice-involved youth
- 17 Community alternatives to incarceration
- 18 Innovative problem-solving court models for justice-involved youth
- 19 Ethical issues of youthful offenders: confidentiality; right to receive and to refuse treatment; seclusion and restraint
- 20 Post-adjudicatory assessment of youth
- Index
Summary
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret MeadThe following pages reflect the dedication of a diverse group of professionals to the needs of an oft neglected population. Youth who become involved with the justice system, by committing delinquent acts and/or status offenses, present with a myriad of issues. It has become increasingly evident that their mental health, educational, and social needs have all too often been inadequately assessed or addressed. Punitive measures and detention create a population of repeat offenders and fail to respond to the root causes of antisocial behavior. With the realization that most justice-involved youth silently suffer from mental health problems, professionals have begun to seriously study both the prevalence of these disorders, and how they might effectively be treated.
We are fortunate to have the contributions of Teplin and colleagues (Chapter 2), who are leaders in an epidemiological approach to psychiatric diagnoses in the juvenile justice population. Their chapter reviews the existing literature, and presents the results of their Northwestern Juvenile Project, which they designed to address limitations of previous research. Prevalence rates of youth in Cook County detention are presented. They indicate high rates of mental illness and of comorbidity, and point to the need to ensure that youth's right to care is met.
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- The Mental Health Needs of Young OffendersForging Paths toward Reintegration and Rehabilitation, pp. 1 - 6Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007