Services for Youth in Closed Settings: Gaps in Services

Taxman, Faye S.; Debus-Sherrill, Sara; Watson, Carolyn

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-0905-2_18

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“…Professionals can also target mental health needs to increase responsiveness to risk-reduction services. Connecting justice-involved youth to appropriate services given their level of risk and needs is an important component of this model, but available evidence suggests that access to appropriate services is variable and often low (Abram et al, 2008; Shubert & Mulvey, 2014; Taxman et al, 2012).…”

Section: E-mental Health For Justice-involved Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology for assessment and treatment of justice-involved youth: A systematic literature review.

Grove¹,

King²,

Vasquez³

et al. 2021

Law and Human Behavior

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Objective: We conducted a systematic literature review of e-mental health technologies in juvenile justice contexts. Hypotheses: Our exploratory research questions were as follows: First, what types of e-mental health exist for justice-involved youth, their caregivers, and juvenile justice professionals? Second, what are the characteristics of studies that have examined these technologies? Third, what have studies found about the effectiveness, reliability, or validity of e-mental health in treating and assessing juvenile justice populations? And fourth, what advantages and disadvantages exist for e-mental health use in juvenile justice? Method: We screened 759 articles and retained 36 for review. We included articles that investigated e-mental health for the assessment or treatment of justice-involved youth and their caregivers. We excluded technologies not directly related to assessment or treatment as well as samples of at-risk youth with no justice involvement. Results: We identified four types of e-mental health technologies: Interventions with technology-facilitated interpersonal communication (e.g., telehealth and mHealth), digitized intervention programs, simulation games, and computerized assessments. Most study designs were experimental/quasi-experimental or qualitative/descriptive, followed closely by repeated measures/pretest-posttest. A majority of evidence suggested that e-mental health technologies were potentially effective or valid for treatment and assessment, especially telehealth. Advantages included positive opinions of users, increased access to care, and efficiency; disadvantages included barriers to accessing technology, privacy concerns, and lack of clear effectiveness, reliability, or validity data. Conclusions: Although the available evidence for e-mental health for juvenile justice is promising, the current literature base appears generally underdeveloped and nuanced. Worthwhile future directions include continued development of technologies and more rigorously conducted studies to support further implementation of e-mental health for juvenile justice.Public Significance Statement E-mental health, and especially telehealth, has shown some potential as a set of strategies to increase justice-involved youths' access to needed behavioral health care. However, such potential requires more rigorous empirical investigation, including greater attention to the risk for health disparities that may stem from inequitable access to or delivery of e-mental health.

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Section: E-mental Health For Justice-involved Youthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Technology for assessment and treatment of justice-involved youth: A systematic literature review.

Grove¹,

King²,

Vasquez³

et al. 2021

Law and Human Behavior

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Forensic Settings and Juvenile Justice

Herrera

Kubik

Docherty

et al. 2018

The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

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The National Center for Juvenile Justice estimated that 54,000 juveniles are held in out-of-home placements daily and indicated that in 2013, over 31 million youth were under juvenile court jurisdiction. Detainment of juveniles often triggers or exacerbates mental health issues. The breadth and depth of the juvenile justice system means that there are several different points at which clinical psychologists and other mental health professionals might serve youth within the system. The most effective intervention approaches tend to rely on cognitive behavioral strategies, behavioral skill development and generalization, and family involvement. For clinicians wishing to enter the juvenile justice field, it is important to understand the goals of the juvenile justice system, how this system was established, and how its structures and processes affect involved youth.

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Services for Youth in Closed Settings: Gaps in Services

Cited by 2 publications

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Technology for assessment and treatment of justice-involved youth: A systematic literature review.

Technology for assessment and treatment of justice-involved youth: A systematic literature review.

Forensic Settings and Juvenile Justice

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