How People With Serious Mental Illness Seek Help After Leaving Jail
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4676065 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amy Blank Wilson (0000-0002-5030-3451, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 1575-1590 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1049732313508476 |
| PMID | 24128995 |
| OpenAlex | W2114613071 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 51 |
In this study, I examined how people with serious mental illness defined and prioritized their service needs when released from jail and how these service priorities shaped the sequencing of help-seeking activities after their release. Data included ethnographic observations and interviews with the staff and clients of a mental health reentry program and responses to an open-ended questionnaire that was given to the program's clients ( N = 115). Sixty-three percent of the clients identified housing and 35% identified financial assistance as one of their two most important service needs, whereas only 12% selected treatment services. These service priorities reflect a hierarchy in help-seeking activities postrelease in which clients' access to treatment services was predicated on their ability to first find sustainable economic and material support. I conclude that reentry programs need to have the resources required to meet both the basic and treatment needs of people with serious mental illness leaving jail
Mental health · Mental illness · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Sociology · Medicine · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment
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Community Reintegration of Repeat Female Offenders in County Jails
Material Needs, Epistemic Neglect, and Slow Violence
Mental Health Identification Practices of Jails
Risk Environments of Permanent Supportive Housing for Formerly Incarcerated People with Serious Mental Illnesses
From Criminalized Patients to Risk-Exposed Agents
Words of welfare
From Asylum to Community
Rehabilitation
Prevalence of Serious Mental Illness Among Jail Inmates
Peer Support/Peer Provided Services Underlying Processes, Benefits, and Critical Ingredients.
Barriers to Effective Mental Health Services for African Americans
Street-Level Bureaucracy
Role of Social Disadvantage in Crime, Joblessness, and Homelessness Among Persons With Serious Mental Illness
Building a Model to Understand Youth Service Access
In the shadow of the poorhouse
The Research Act
When prisoners come home
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders Among Incarcerated Women
Ethnography through Thick and Thin
Forensic Mental Illness and Other Policy Misadventures. Commentary on “Extending Assertive Community Treatment to Criminal Justice Settings
Coercive and voluntary referrals
Jails and prisons--America's new mental hospitals
Coming Home From Jail
A right to health
Sociobehavioral Determinants of Compliance with Health and Medical Care Recommendations
Extending Assertive Community Treatment to Criminal Justice Settings
Co-occurring disorders among mentally ill jail detainees
How people get into mental health services
Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care
Beyond Rational Choice
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |