This presentation focuses on co-morbidity of trauma and psychopathy within a severely persistently mentally ill substance using urban population under study as part of a four year evaluation of New York City’s Department of Mental Health post-booking comprehensive case management jail and court-based diversion models. The presentation will begin with a description of the intervention and the baseline legal, psychiatric, and psychosocial characteristics of 108 post-booking pre-sentenced diverted experimental research participants and 130 non-diverted matched comparison jail detainees. Then preliminary analyses of 12-month follow-up data as compared to baseline and three-month follow-up, within and between groups, will be presented focusing on PTSD, trauma symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms, psychopathy, and risk assessment characteristics derived from such instruments as the Diagnostic Interview Schedule PTSD and Antisocial modules, Post Traumatic Checklist-Civilian, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, BPRS, Psychopathy Checklist-Screening Version, and HCR-20 (risk assessment), along with collateral recidivism and services data. This data analysis builds upon previous significant findings at three-month follow-up regarding the relationship between trauma, psychopathy and baseline risk. Discussion will focus on population characteristics and the implication regarding differential supervision and treatment matching needs.
Learning Objectives: 1. Utilize information regarding the relation of trauma, psychopathy and risk within a co-occurring severly mentally ill substance using population to better shape policy, criminal justice and mental health interventions.
Keywords: Mental Illness, Criminal Justice
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