Prison Mencal Healt Services: An Empirical Study of the Service Delivery Process in Two New York State Prisons

BY Kenneth G. Adams

FROM THE ABSTRACT: This dissertation investigates the delivery of mental healtn services in New York State prisons. Using new referral forms, detailed information on requests for services was collected at two institutions (n=263, n=250). Service delivery and follow-up information was abstracted from mental healtn files. Background information on referrea inmates (n=182, n=190) ana on comparison groups of non-referred inmates (n=256, n=254) was obtained from correctional files. Interviews were conducted win prison staff concerning referrals tney had made using a modified incident-focused tennique. The analysis chronologically examines stages of the referral process with particular attention to referral agents and the networks they establish….”

Albany. NY. State University of New York. Nelson A. Rockefeller College o Pudlic Affairs and Policy, School of Criminal Justice. Dissertation. 1984. 442p.