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Schnell, Jeffrey L.

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Family support and mental health treatment utilization among offenders with severe mental illness.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Family support and mental health treatment utilization among offenders with severe mental illness./
Author:	Schnell, Jeffrey L.
Description:	118 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: B, page: 2839.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05B.
Subject:	Psychology, Clinical. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3174391
ISBN:	0542119196

Family support and mental health treatment utilization among offenders with severe mental illness.
Schnell, Jeffrey L.

Family support and mental health treatment utilization among offenders with severe mental illness. - 118 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: B, page: 2839.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005.

Low levels of social support among those with severe mental illness are well documented. Although community-based programs have become the preferred treatment modality for this population, researchers assert that the potential of programs to increase social supports among mentally ill clients has not been adequately examined, despite research demonstrating that the capacity to cope with illness in the community appears to be strongly linked to the provision of social support. Further, there is conflicting evidence about the impact of social support on clients' utilization of treatment. The present study examines the relationship between informal (family) and formal (treatment) support networks. Specifically, it was hypothesized that participants with more intact family relationships would utilize more of the treatment available to them, and that clients utilizing more treatment hours would, in turn, be more satisfied with their family relationships after twelve months of treatment. Data were collected from 234 mentally ill offenders participating in Santa Barbara County's Mental Health Treatment Court, using the Lehman Quality of Life-Short Form, Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), and Medi-Cal treatment records. The relationships between participants' intake and twelve-month family satisfaction ratings, frequencies of family contact, GAF scores, and hours of treatment were examined. Results suggested that participants' frequency of contact and satisfaction with family at intake did not significantly impact the amount of treatment utilized over one year. Participation in the community treatment program resulted in higher levels of family satisfaction after twelve months, but no change in family contact frequency. Improvements in family satisfaction were unrelated to the hours of treatment utilized. Instead, results indicated that engagement in treatment within the treatment program depended largely on clients' need for treatment, rather than whether family was available to encourage or assist in treatment utilization. These findings suggest the potential for community treatment to enhance the quality of family relationships among the severely mentally ill, and underscore the need for a more detailed study into the specific mechanisms affecting this change. The implications of the findings for future research and community-treatment program development are discussed.

ISBN: 0542119196Subjects--Topical Terms:

524864
Psychology, Clinical.

Family support and mental health treatment utilization among offenders with severe mental illness.
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