NCJ Number
125670
Journal
Journal of Offender Counseling, Services and Rehabilitation Volume: 15 Issue: 2 Dated: (1990) Pages: 131-153
Date Published
1990
Length
23 pages
Annotation
This paper describes the planning, implementation, and evaluation of a rehabilitation program at the Mental Health Center at Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina for mentally ill inmates between the age of 16 and 40 convicted of felonies or misdemeanors from the perspective of the psychiatric director and a counselor on the treatment team. It includes a review of some of the more recent literature concerning psychiatric illness in prisons in the United States.
Abstract
In this program, the diagnosis is separated from the offenses which led to the incarceration. Examples of the varied and complex rehabilitation process are given illustrating appropriate medical, therapeutic, and educational components that address problems in psychosexual, moral, cognitive skill, and social skill development as well as issues of thinking, goal achievement, and self-esteem. The paper concludes with a personal account of one inmate's progress toward re-entry into society based on Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of the death model. 42 references.