Donald M Linhorst
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 238196 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Donald M Linhorst |
| NOMBRES | Donald M |
| APELLIDO | Linhorst |
| FIRMA | LINHORST D M |
| AFILIACIONES | Saint Louis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5406-7364 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Stress and trauma among police officers
Racial justice movements sparked by police killings of Black and Brown persons have led to a reassessment of the role of policing in America. This has promoted important conversations about how best to improve public safety and design law enforcement practices that are equitable and just across communities. A component of this conversation is addressing stress and trauma faced by police as a routine part of their duties, as it can affect the qual…
Models of Social Worker and Police Officer Collaborations and the Social Issues They Address
Criminal Court-Ordered Psychiatric Evaluations
This study examines potential gender differences among defendants referred by criminal courts for psychiatric evaluations by analyzing demographic, clinical, and criminal history variables and evaluation findings. This study offers a large sample size of 718 females, as well as 3,627 males. Bivariate logistic regression and heterogeneity analyses were utilized to assess potential differences. Females were older; diagnosed more with mood, anxiety,…
The role of race in court-ordered pretrial psychiatric evaluations
The current study examines whether racial differences exist for defendants referred by criminal courts for pretrial psychiatric evaluations across demographic, clinical, and criminal history variables. Compared to Caucasian defendants, African Americans were younger, less educated, diagnosed more frequently with schizophrenia, but less with mood disorders, more likely to have prior felony convictions, and more likely to be in jail at the time of …
An Analysis of Readmissions to a Mental Health Court
Mental health courts (MHCs) have emerged as one option to address the needs of people with severe mental illness who enter the criminal justice system. Little is known about defendants having multiple referrals to MHCs or the outcomes of subsequent admissions. This study included a sample of 1,084 defendants referred to municipal MHC. During the 13-year study period, 14.3% of defendants had a second admission, with an estimated probability of rea…
Recidivism among Participants of a Reentry Program for Prisoners Released without Supervision
As higher numbers of individuals are released from prison and rejoin society, reentry programs can help former offenders reintegrate into society without continuing to engage in crime. This quasi-experimental study examined whether participation in reentry programming was associated with reduced recidivism among offenders who were no longer under criminal justice supervision. Offenders who completed their sentences in prison were invited to parti…
The Development and Implementation of a Jail-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Program
Many jail inmates have high rates of substance use and abuse disorders, as well as a range of other social problems. Yet, the majority of jails do not offer substance abuse treatment programs. Few studies detail the development and implementation of these programs that can serve as a guide to social workers and others who seek to start them. To address this void, we describe the development and 7-year implementation of the Choices program, a jail…
Challenges to Implementing the Harm Reduction Approach
The social work literature recently has supported greater use of the harm reduction approach in professional practice. Implementing this approach, however, presents its challenges. We explore how practitioners in a housing program for people with histories of psychiatric disabilities, substance use disorders, and homelessness perceived the harm reduction approach. Prior to the opening of this new program, agency staff completed a questionnaire an…
Promoting Participation in Organizational Decision Making by Clients with Severe Mental Illness
This qualitative study assessed clients' participation in organizational decision making in a public long-term psychiatric hospital. Numerous examples were found in which clients meaningfully participated in the decision-making process and achieved favorable policy changes. Three means of involving clients were found to be especially useful: (1) using a consumer council, (2) involving clients in the formal policy review process, and (3) including…
Interorganizational Collaboratives for Children of Prisoners
Almost 1.5 million children in the United States have parents who are incarcerated in prisons. These children are at-risk for juvenile delinquency, failure in school, and residential instability. Efforts to locate and provide services to these children require cooperation from a range of social institutions that historically have not worked together. This article describes two collaboratives organized to identify and address the needs of these ch…
Conditions for Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness
We contend that people with severe mental illness can be empowered though participation in decision making when certain conditions are met. Applying the work of Joel Handler, we identify seven conditions that must be present for meaningful participation to occur. Some conditions are internal to the person, such as having controlled psychiatric symptoms and decision‐making skills, while others are a function of the mental health system. We apply t…
A Review of the Use and Potential of Focus Groups in Social Work Research
Over the last 15 years, social scientists increasingly have used focus groups as a method for collecting qualitative data. With focus groups, a moderator uses the group process with a small number of participants to stimulate discussion and obtain information on the beliefs, attitudes, or motivations of participants on a specific topic. Based upon a review of a sample of social work articles, researchers used focus groups to study a wide range of…
Federalism and Social Justice
Federalism is a system of government that divides power between two or more levels of government. During the current conservative political climate in the United States, power has shifted increasingly from the federal government to states, a move that has implications for the achievement of social justice. Consequently, it is now necessary for social workers to engage in political activity at the state and local levels, in addition to the federal…
Opportunities and Barriers to Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness through Participation in Treatment Planning
Participation in treatment planning can be one means of empowering clients. However, significant barriers exist to empowering people with severe mental illness through treatment planning. This qualitative study reviewed documents and conducted focus groups with clients and staff of a public psychiatric hospital to identify barriers to empowerment and the conditions that must be present for client empowerment to occur through treatment planning. T…
Factors associated with the discharge of patients from a long-term state psychiatric hospital
The study discussed in this article describes the characteristics of 188 patients who were residing in a state psychiatric hospital on July 1, 1995, and identifies the patient-related factors associated with the 74 patients who were discharged within four years of the survey date. Because of different criteria for discharge between patients admitted by their legal guardians and those committed by the criminal courts, separate analyses were conduc…
A Critical Assessment of Disposition Options for Mentally Ill Offenders
We evaluate three disposition options for mentally ill offenders: abolishing the insanity defense, substituting a guilty but mentally ill verdict, or retaining the insanity defense with a conditional release. We review the foundations of each position and the research on implementation and policy outcomes. We also discuss the political support behind each position. We argue that retaining the insanity defense with conditional release and communit…
The use of single room occupancy (SRO) housing as a residential alternative for persons with a chronic mental illness
A Redefinition of the Problem of Homelessness Among Persons with a Chronic Mental Illness
Two definitions of the problem of homelessness among persons with a chronic mental illness are examined, along with their implied solutions and ramifications for policy. Homelessness among this group is first viewed as the result of deinstitutionalization, and secondly, as the outcome of a critical shortage of low-income housing. Solutions stemming from the deinstitutionalization definition of homelessness, reinstitutionalization or improvement i…
Promoting Participation in Organizational Decision Making by Clients with Severe Mental Illness
This qualitative study assessed clients' participation in organizational decision making in a public long-term psychiatric hospital. Numerous examples were found in which clients meaningfully participated in the decision-making process and achieved favorable policy changes. Three means of involving clients were found to be especially useful: (1) using a consumer council, (2) involving clients in the formal policy review process, and (3) including…
Opportunities and Barriers to Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness through Participation in Treatment Planning
Participation in treatment planning can be one means of empowering clients. However, significant barriers exist to empowering people with severe mental illness through treatment planning. This qualitative study reviewed documents and conducted focus groups with clients and staff of a public psychiatric hospital to identify barriers to empowerment and the conditions that must be present for client empowerment to occur through treatment planning. T…
Conditions for Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness
We contend that people with severe mental illness can be empowered though participation in decision making when certain conditions are met. Applying the work of Joel Handler, we identify seven conditions that must be present for meaningful participation to occur. Some conditions are internal to the person, such as having controlled psychiatric symptoms and decision‐making skills, while others are a function of the mental health system. We apply t…
Interorganizational Collaboratives for Children of Prisoners
Almost 1.5 million children in the United States have parents who are incarcerated in prisons. These children are at-risk for juvenile delinquency, failure in school, and residential instability. Efforts to locate and provide services to these children require cooperation from a range of social institutions that historically have not worked together. This article describes two collaboratives organized to identify and address the needs of these ch…
A Critical Assessment of Disposition Options for Mentally Ill Offenders
We evaluate three disposition options for mentally ill offenders: abolishing the insanity defense, substituting a guilty but mentally ill verdict, or retaining the insanity defense with a conditional release. We review the foundations of each position and the research on implementation and policy outcomes. We also discuss the political support behind each position. We argue that retaining the insanity defense with conditional release and communit…
Recidivism among Participants of a Reentry Program for Prisoners Released without Supervision
As higher numbers of individuals are released from prison and rejoin society, reentry programs can help former offenders reintegrate into society without continuing to engage in crime. This quasi-experimental study examined whether participation in reentry programming was associated with reduced recidivism among offenders who were no longer under criminal justice supervision. Offenders who completed their sentences in prison were invited to parti…
The use of single room occupancy (SRO) housing as a residential alternative for persons with a chronic mental illness
A Redefinition of the Problem of Homelessness Among Persons with a Chronic Mental Illness
Two definitions of the problem of homelessness among persons with a chronic mental illness are examined, along with their implied solutions and ramifications for policy. Homelessness among this group is first viewed as the result of deinstitutionalization, and secondly, as the outcome of a critical shortage of low-income housing. Solutions stemming from the deinstitutionalization definition of homelessness, reinstitutionalization or improvement i…
The use of single room occupancy (SRO) housing as a residential alternative for persons with a chronic mental illness
A Critical Assessment of Disposition Options for Mentally Ill Offenders
We evaluate three disposition options for mentally ill offenders: abolishing the insanity defense, substituting a guilty but mentally ill verdict, or retaining the insanity defense with a conditional release. We review the foundations of each position and the research on implementation and policy outcomes. We also discuss the political support behind each position. We argue that retaining the insanity defense with conditional release and communit…
Factors associated with the discharge of patients from a long-term state psychiatric hospital
The study discussed in this article describes the characteristics of 188 patients who were residing in a state psychiatric hospital on July 1, 1995, and identifies the patient-related factors associated with the 74 patients who were discharged within four years of the survey date. Because of different criteria for discharge between patients admitted by their legal guardians and those committed by the criminal courts, separate analyses were conduc…
A Review of the Use and Potential of Focus Groups in Social Work Research
Over the last 15 years, social scientists increasingly have used focus groups as a method for collecting qualitative data. With focus groups, a moderator uses the group process with a small number of participants to stimulate discussion and obtain information on the beliefs, attitudes, or motivations of participants on a specific topic. Based upon a review of a sample of social work articles, researchers used focus groups to study a wide range of…
Federalism and Social Justice
Federalism is a system of government that divides power between two or more levels of government. During the current conservative political climate in the United States, power has shifted increasingly from the federal government to states, a move that has implications for the achievement of social justice. Consequently, it is now necessary for social workers to engage in political activity at the state and local levels, in addition to the federal…
Opportunities and Barriers to Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness through Participation in Treatment Planning
Participation in treatment planning can be one means of empowering clients. However, significant barriers exist to empowering people with severe mental illness through treatment planning. This qualitative study reviewed documents and conducted focus groups with clients and staff of a public psychiatric hospital to identify barriers to empowerment and the conditions that must be present for client empowerment to occur through treatment planning. T…
Conditions for Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness
We contend that people with severe mental illness can be empowered though participation in decision making when certain conditions are met. Applying the work of Joel Handler, we identify seven conditions that must be present for meaningful participation to occur. Some conditions are internal to the person, such as having controlled psychiatric symptoms and decision‐making skills, while others are a function of the mental health system. We apply t…
Promoting Participation in Organizational Decision Making by Clients with Severe Mental Illness
This qualitative study assessed clients' participation in organizational decision making in a public long-term psychiatric hospital. Numerous examples were found in which clients meaningfully participated in the decision-making process and achieved favorable policy changes. Three means of involving clients were found to be especially useful: (1) using a consumer council, (2) involving clients in the formal policy review process, and (3) including…
Interorganizational Collaboratives for Children of Prisoners
Almost 1.5 million children in the United States have parents who are incarcerated in prisons. These children are at-risk for juvenile delinquency, failure in school, and residential instability. Efforts to locate and provide services to these children require cooperation from a range of social institutions that historically have not worked together. This article describes two collaboratives organized to identify and address the needs of these ch…
Challenges to Implementing the Harm Reduction Approach
The social work literature recently has supported greater use of the harm reduction approach in professional practice. Implementing this approach, however, presents its challenges. We explore how practitioners in a housing program for people with histories of psychiatric disabilities, substance use disorders, and homelessness perceived the harm reduction approach. Prior to the opening of this new program, agency staff completed a questionnaire an…
The Development and Implementation of a Jail-Based Substance Abuse Treatment Program
Many jail inmates have high rates of substance use and abuse disorders, as well as a range of other social problems. Yet, the majority of jails do not offer substance abuse treatment programs. Few studies detail the development and implementation of these programs that can serve as a guide to social workers and others who seek to start them. To address this void, we describe the development and 7-year implementation of the Choices program, a jail…
Recidivism among Participants of a Reentry Program for Prisoners Released without Supervision
As higher numbers of individuals are released from prison and rejoin society, reentry programs can help former offenders reintegrate into society without continuing to engage in crime. This quasi-experimental study examined whether participation in reentry programming was associated with reduced recidivism among offenders who were no longer under criminal justice supervision. Offenders who completed their sentences in prison were invited to parti…
The role of race in court-ordered pretrial psychiatric evaluations
The current study examines whether racial differences exist for defendants referred by criminal courts for pretrial psychiatric evaluations across demographic, clinical, and criminal history variables. Compared to Caucasian defendants, African Americans were younger, less educated, diagnosed more frequently with schizophrenia, but less with mood disorders, more likely to have prior felony convictions, and more likely to be in jail at the time of …
An Analysis of Readmissions to a Mental Health Court
Mental health courts (MHCs) have emerged as one option to address the needs of people with severe mental illness who enter the criminal justice system. Little is known about defendants having multiple referrals to MHCs or the outcomes of subsequent admissions. This study included a sample of 1,084 defendants referred to municipal MHC. During the 13-year study period, 14.3% of defendants had a second admission, with an estimated probability of rea…
Criminal Court-Ordered Psychiatric Evaluations
This study examines potential gender differences among defendants referred by criminal courts for psychiatric evaluations by analyzing demographic, clinical, and criminal history variables and evaluation findings. This study offers a large sample size of 718 females, as well as 3,627 males. Bivariate logistic regression and heterogeneity analyses were utilized to assess potential differences. Females were older; diagnosed more with mood, anxiety,…
Stress and trauma among police officers
Racial justice movements sparked by police killings of Black and Brown persons have led to a reassessment of the role of policing in America. This has promoted important conversations about how best to improve public safety and design law enforcement practices that are equitable and just across communities. A component of this conversation is addressing stress and trauma faced by police as a routine part of their duties, as it can affect the qual…
Models of Social Worker and Police Officer Collaborations and the Social Issues They Address
Psychology (16 obras) · Psychiatry (12 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Medicine (8 obras) · Mental health (8 obras) · Mental illness (7 obras) · Criminology (6 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 obras) · Social Work (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras)