Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes: "What Works" in an Intervention for Justice-Involved Persons With Mental Illness

Interventions that focus on the psychiatric and criminogenic needs of justice-involved persons with mental illness are rare. A Treatment Manual for Justice Involved Persons with Mental Illness: Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes (CLCO) was developed specifically for meeting these co-occurring need...

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Published in:Psychological services 2019-11, Vol.16 (4), p.693-700
Main Authors: Van Horn, Stephanie A., Morgan, Robert D., Brusman-Lovins, Lori, Littlefield, Andrew K., Hunter, Joe T., Gigax, Greg, Ridley, Kim
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Clinical outcomes
Comorbidity
Completion
Criminal Justice
Criminal Law
Criminals
Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry)
Felony
Female
Homework
Human
Humans
Incarcerated
Intervention
Male
Mental Disorders
Mental Disorders - therapy
Mentally Ill Persons
Middle Aged
Offenders
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
Psychotherapy - methods
Residential treatment
Residential Treatment - methods
Retention
Test Construction
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Summary:Interventions that focus on the psychiatric and criminogenic needs of justice-involved persons with mental illness are rare. A Treatment Manual for Justice Involved Persons with Mental Illness: Changing Lives 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 reduced symptomatology and some aspects of criminal risk, much additional work examining the effectiveness of CLCO remains to be done. The present evaluation examined the extent to which offenders gained knowledge (i.e., content retention) throughout the program, the extent to which content retention was predictive of program completion, and the extent to which treatment engagement (i.e., session attendance and homework completion) was predictive of program completion. Participants consisted of male and female felony offenders in a residential treatment facility (n = 130), and dually diagnosed male offenders in a residential treatment facility (n = 39). Results indicated that participants in this intervention retained treatment content, and this content retention was predictive of treatment completion. Implications of these findings suggest that CLCO is a promising new intervention for justice-involved persons with mental illness.
ISSN:1541-1559
1939-148X
DOI:10.1037/ser0000248