TY - JOUR
T1 - From the psychiatric hospital to the community
T2 - Integrating conditional release and contingency management
AU - Elbogen, Eric B.
AU - Tomkins, Alan J.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Psychiatric hospital recidivism has been and continues to be a persistent problem in treating individuals with chronic mental illness. Conditional release, a form of involuntary outpatient commitment, has been suggested as one possible solution. Guided by therapeutic jurisprudence, this article presents a proposal about conditional release that would maximize convergence of social values and would be empirically testable. Specifically, a scientifically validated treatment intervention for individuals with chronic mental illness, contingency management, is integrated with conditional release. From this proposal, a number of empirical hypotheses and legal questions about discharging psychiatric patients are generated and discussed. (C) 2000 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
AB - Psychiatric hospital recidivism has been and continues to be a persistent problem in treating individuals with chronic mental illness. Conditional release, a form of involuntary outpatient commitment, has been suggested as one possible solution. Guided by therapeutic jurisprudence, this article presents a proposal about conditional release that would maximize convergence of social values and would be empirically testable. Specifically, a scientifically validated treatment intervention for individuals with chronic mental illness, contingency management, is integrated with conditional release. From this proposal, a number of empirical hypotheses and legal questions about discharging psychiatric patients are generated and discussed. (C) 2000 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
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U2 - 10.1002/1099-0798(2000)18:4<427::AID-BSL387>3.0.CO;2-X
DO - 10.1002/1099-0798(2000)18:4<427::AID-BSL387>3.0.CO;2-X
M3 - Review article
C2 - 11018777
AN - SCOPUS:0033808621
VL - 18
SP - 427
EP - 444
JO - Behavioral Sciences and the Law
JF - Behavioral Sciences and the Law
SN - 0735-3936
IS - 4
ER -