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The Role of Probation in Forensic Assertive Community Treatment

J. Steven Lamberti, M.D. [email protected], Alison Deem, M.D., Robert L. Weisman, D.O. [email protected], and Casey LaDuke, B.A.Authors Info & Affiliations
Publication: Psychiatric Services
Volume 62, Number 4
https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.62.4.pss6204_0418
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Abstract

Objective:

Forensic assertive community treatment (FACT) is an adaptation of the assertive community treatment model designed to prevent criminal recidivism through criminal justice collaborations. A national survey was conducted to examine FACT collaborations with probation departments.

Methods:

Members of the National Association of County Behavioral Health and Developmental Disability Directors were surveyed to identify FACT programs. Programs reporting collaborations with probation departments were contacted to provide details.

Results:

Fifty-six percent of FACT programs (15 of 27) reported collaborating with probation departments. Probation officers were assigned an average of 29±16 hours weekly, and 80% of programs (12 of 15) reported a favorable impact of collaboration on risk of patient rearrest. Only two programs reported using standard tools to formally assess recidivism risk. The most common barrier to collaboration was differences in philosophy between FACT team clinicians and probation officers.

Conclusions:

FACT collaborations involving probation departments are common and are viewed by most program leaders as helpful in reducing criminal recidivism. (Psychiatric Services 62:418–421, 2011)

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Psychiatric Services
Volume 62 • Number 4 • April 2011
Pages: 418 - 421
PubMed: 21459994

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Published online: 1 April 2011
Published in print: April 2011

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J. Steven Lamberti, M.D. [email protected]
Dr. Lamberti and Dr. Weisman are affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Blvd., Rochester, NY 14642 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Alison Deem, M.D.
Dr. Deem is with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
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Robert L. Weisman, D.O. [email protected]
Dr. Lamberti and Dr. Weisman are affiliated with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center, 300 Crittenden Blvd., Rochester, NY 14642 (e-mail: [email protected]).
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Casey LaDuke, B.A.
Mr. LaDuke is with the Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia.
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Notes

Findings in this report were presented in part at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, Baltimore, October 29 to November 1, 2009.

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