Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Crim Behav Ment Health. 2020 Dec;30(6):303-311. doi: 10.1002/cbm.2181. Epub 2020 Nov 13.
Contributing to the literature on reintegration and community supervision, we consider the mental health experiences of women parolees and the implications for case management.
We consider the different ways mental health considerations are responded to by parole officers and case management staff, identifying areas of tension (e.g., when psychological services are fused with supervision) but also areas of opportunity (e.g., when case management staff forge therapeutic relationships with parolees).
Using a grounded approach we explore women's parole experiences and case management practices through a qualitative analysis of parole and casework documents. Our iterative process of document analysis included content and thematic analysis.
Mental health is responded to both as a therapeutic need and criminogenic risk. Therapeutic responses entail both formal and informal supportive interventions that often appear welcomed by and beneficial to parolees. Risk-based responses fuse mental health considerations into supervisory frameworks, evidenced by the prominence of mental health-related parole conditions and the role of psychologists as assessors of risk.
CONCLUSIONS/IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE: The tension between treatment and supervision can undermine conditions favourable to responsive case management and the working alliance.
本研究旨在为再融入和社区监管领域的文献增砖添瓦，探讨女性假释犯的心理健康体验及其对个案管理的启示。
本研究旨在探讨假释官和个案管理人员对心理健康问题的不同应对方式，发现其中的紧张领域（例如，心理服务与监管融合时）和机遇领域（例如，个案管理人员与假释犯建立治疗关系时）。
我们采用扎根理论方法，通过对假释和个案工作文件的定性分析，探讨女性假释经历和个案管理实践。我们的文档分析迭代过程包括内容分析和主题分析。
心理健康问题既是一种治疗需求，也是一种犯罪风险。治疗性应对措施既包括正式的支持性干预，也包括非正式的支持性干预，这些干预措施通常受到假释犯的欢迎，并对他们有益。基于风险的应对措施将心理健康问题融入监管框架中，这体现在与心理健康相关的假释条件的突出地位，以及心理学家作为风险评估者的角色。
结论/对临床实践的影响：治疗与监管之间的紧张关系可能会破坏有利于响应式个案管理和工作联盟的条件。
