Center for Behavioral Health Services and Criminal Justice Research, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
Law Hum Behav. 2011 Oct;35(5):402-12. doi: 10.1007/s10979-010-9250-4.
Admission into mental health courts is based on a complicated and often variable decision-making process that involves multiple parties representing different expertise and interests. To the extent that eligibility criteria of mental health courts are more suggestive than deterministic, selection bias can be expected. Very little research has focused on the selection processes underpinning problem-solving courts even though such processes may dominate the performance of these interventions. This article describes a qualitative study designed to deconstruct the selection and admission processes of mental health courts. In this article, we describe a multi-stage, complex process for screening and admitting clients into mental health courts. The selection filtering model that is described has three eligibility screening stages: initial, assessment, and evaluation. The results of this study suggest that clients selected by mental health courts are shaped by the formal and informal selection criteria, as well as by the local treatment system.
进入心理健康法院的依据是一个复杂且常常变化的决策过程，涉及到代表不同专业知识和利益的多方。在某种程度上，心理健康法院的资格标准更多的是提示性的，而不是确定性的，因此可以预期会存在选择偏差。尽管解决问题法院的程序可能主导这些干预措施的效果，但很少有研究关注支持这些法院的选择程序。本文描述了一项旨在解构心理健康法院选择和录取程序的定性研究。在本文中，我们描述了一个筛选和录取心理健康法院客户的多阶段复杂程序。所描述的选择过滤模型有三个资格筛选阶段：初始、评估和评估。这项研究的结果表明，心理健康法院选择的客户受到正式和非正式选择标准以及当地治疗系统的影响。
