From the psychiatric hospital to the community: integrating conditional release and contingency management.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
Psychiatric hospital recidivism has been and continues to be a persistent problem in treating individuals with chronic mental illness. Conditional release, a form of involuntary outpatient commitment, has been suggested as one possible solution. Guided by therapeutic jurisprudence, this article presents a proposal about conditional release that would maximize convergence of social values and would be empirically testable. Specifically, a scientifically validated treatment intervention for individuals with chronic mental illness, contingency management, is integrated with conditional release. From this proposal, a number of empirical hypotheses and legal questions about discharging psychiatric patients are generated and discussed.
Full Text
Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Elbogen, EB; Tomkins, AJ
Published Date
- 2000
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 18 / 4
Start / End Page
- 427 - 444
PubMed ID
- 11018777
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0735-3936
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1002/1099-0798(2000)18:4<427::aid-bsl387>3.0.co;2-x
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States