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NCJ Number:	121944

Title:	Forensic Mental Health Services Provided by Mental Health Organizations, United States, 1985

Author(s):	R W Redick; M J Witkin; J E Atay; R W Manderscheid

Date Published:	1989

Page Count:	13

Sponsoring Agency:	National Institute of Justice/ Rockville, MD 20849 National Institute of Mental Health Bethesda, MD 20852 NCJRS Photocopy Services Rockville, MD 20849-6000 US Dept of Health and Human Services Rockville, MD 20857

Contract Number:	85-MO-474829-01D

Publication Number:	ADM 89-1606

Sale Source:	National Institute of Justice/ NCJRS paper reproduction Box 6000, Dept F Rockville, MD 20849 United States of America US Dept of Health and Human Services Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Admin 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857 United States of America NCJRS Photocopy Services Box 6000 Rockville, MD 20849-6000 United States of America

Document:	PDF

Type:	Statistics

Language:	English

Country:	United States of America

Annotation:	The 1985 National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Inventory shows that 1,339 (43 percent) of the 3,118 mental health organizations surveyed provided mental health services to mentally disordered adult offenders.

Abstract:	The majority of these forensic services were in multiservice mental health organizations, 23 percent in freestanding psychiatric outpatient clinics, 14 percent in State mental hospitals, and 4 percent in private psychiatric hospitals. Services were provided by about two-thirds of the 289 State mental hospitals, 55 percent of the 1,383 multiservice mental health organizations, and 40 percent of the 756 freestanding psychiatric outpatient clinics. Psychiatric assessment was the forensic service provided most frequently, followed by consultation to law enforcement staff and attorneys, psychiatric outpatient care, monitoring of medication, emergency mental health care, inpatient/residential care, partial care, and emergency detention. About 200,000 mentally disordered offenders received psychiatric assessment services; slightly over 100,000 were provided psychiatric outpatient care. Funding for forensic services, totaling $639 million, was received by just half of the mental health organizations with these services. About four-fifths of this funding came from State mental health agencies. 8 tables (Author abstract modified)

Main Term(s):	Offender mental health services

Index Term(s):	Forensic psychiatry; Mentally ill offenders; Offender statistics

Note:	Mental Health Statistical Note No. 190



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