@article{ref1,
title="Mental health providers' attitudes about criminal justice-involved clients with serious mental illness",
journal="Psychiatric services",
year="2018",
author="Bandara, Sachini N. and Daumit, Gail L. and Kennedy-Hendricks, Alene and Linden, Sarah and Choksy, Seema and McGinty, Emma E.",
volume="69",
number="4",
pages="472-475",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Community mental health providers' attitudes toward criminal justice-involved clients with serious mental illness were examined. <br><br>METHODS: A total of 627 Maryland psychiatric rehabilitation program providers responded to a survey (83% response rate). Measures assessed providers' experience with, positive regard for, and perceptions of similarity, with their clients with serious mental illness. Chi-square tests were used to compare providers' attitudes toward clients with and without criminal justice involvement. <br><br>RESULTS: Providers reported lower regard for criminal justice-involved clients than for clients without such involvement. Providers were less likely to report having a great deal of respect for clients with (79%) versus without (95%) criminal justice involvement. On all items that measured providers' perceived similarity with their clients, less than 50% of providers rated themselves as similar, regardless of clients' criminal justice status. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Future research should explore how providers' attitudes toward criminal justice-involved clients influence service delivery for this group.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1075-2730",
doi="10.1176/appi.ps.201700321",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201700321"
}