试论领导干部的心理健康及其调适

随着社会转型速度的加快,领导干部的心理健康问题已经越来越受到全社会的关注和重视.领导干部的心理健康是领导干部素质健全和全面发展的重要标志.本文分析了目前领导干部心理健康存在的问题及成因,并有针对性地提出了领导干部心理健康调适的方法.     

Youth Mental Health First-Aid: Juvenile Justice Staff Training to Assist Youth with Mental Health Concerns

Many youth in juvenile justice settings meet criteria for a mental health condition. Front line staff need to be able to recognize and respond to their needs, but training is often lacking. Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA) is an 8-hour training for adults without mental health education to recognize and assist distressed youth. This study surveyed 1,279 [State blinded] DJS front-line staff trained in YMHFA. Of 338 returned surveys (26% response), 44% reported using YMHFA skills at work, 56% in preventing a crisis, 25% during crises. Respondents rated YMHFA as significantly improving their responsiveness to distressed young people.     

The Politics of Benchcraft: The Role of Judges in Mental Health Courts

Mental health courts (MHCs) offer community‐based treatment in lieu of criminal prosecution for chronic offenders with psychiatric disabilities, and MHC judges enjoy expanded powers to achieve the court's objectives. Because scholars know little about how judges transition into a new occupational role in the problem‐solving courtroom, this ethnographic study of four MHCs in the United States focuses on how judges learn to orchestrate their responses to treatment noncompliance in this novel court setting. The goal of this article is to examine the professionalization of MHC judges and the emergent craft of therapeutic adjudication. To achieve this goal, I investigate judicial strategies for motivating, questioning, and defending participants accused of wrongdoing. I conclude that the art and practice of problem‐solving justice requires judges to rise to the larger institutional challenges embedded in the alternative courtroom, a process I call the politics of benchcraft.     

The Empirical Limits of Forensic Mental Health Assessment

This article introduces a special issue of Law and Human Behavior, including five articles describing the limits of forensic mental health assessments of (a) risk of violence in female adolescents, (b) sexually violent predators, (c) dangerousness in capital murder cases, (d) child sexual abuse, and (e) PTSD litigants. Knowing the limits of forensic mental health assessment methods is essential in order to recognize their strengths, increase the credibility of forensic mental health assessment, and drive research that will enhance the value of assessments for the courts.     

Call for Papers: The Empirical Limits of Forensic Mental Health Assessment

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Juvenile Mental Health Court: Rationale and Protocols

Under the sponsorship of the judiciary, the Santa Clara County, California Juvenile Court, in partnership with the Juvenile Mental Health Department and a technical assistance agency (SOLOMON), has pioneered a Juvenile Mental Health Court for seriously mentally ill children who have become involved in the criminal justice system. The judiciary, probation department, district attorney, public defender, county counsel, and service providers have collectively embarked upon the implementation of a modern approach to mental health diagnosis, triage, and treatment services for youth and families who come in contact with the justice system as a result of the combination of serious mental illness and juvenile delinquency. This article presents the court's rationale and protocols.     

Mental Health Court Outcomes: A Comparison of Re-Arrest and Re-Arrest Severity Between Mental Health Court and Traditional Court Participants

Mental health courts have been proliferating across the country since their establishment in the late 1990's. Although numerous advocates have proclaimed their merit, only few empirical studies have evaluated their outcomes. This paper evaluates the effect of one mental health court on criminal justice outcomes by examining arrests and offense severity from one year before to one year after entry into the court, and by comparing mental health court participants to comparable traditional criminal court defendants on these measures. Multivariate models support the prediction that mental health courts reduce the number of new arrests and the severity of such re-arrests among mentally ill offenders. Similar analysis of mental health court completers and non-completers supports the prediction that a "full dose" of mental health treatment and court monitoring produce even fewer re-arrests.     

PARENS PA TRIAE: Poltergeist of Mental Health Law

This article examines the uncanny resiliency of an ancient doctrine called parens patriae despite legislative and judicial attempts to restrict its use in involuntary commitment proceedings of the mentally ill. Attempts by the legislature and courts to reduce parens patriae rationales, which are heavily promoted by the medical profession, have emphasized police power rationales and have followed two general strategies. One strategy sets up a number of procedural steps that provide monitoring of individual rights at critical junctures during the commitment process. The second strategy attempts to establish multiple criteria that must be met before any commitment decision can by made. It is pointed out that legislatures, and to some extent the courts, have focused on the procedural strategy, while neglecting the more substantive issue of behavioral criteria. It is argued that the lack of attention to the second strategy, specifically in relation to clear definitions and rigorous criteria, have created the impetus for the medical-psychiatric profession to continue its dominance in involuntary commitment proceedings under the guise of parens patriae.     

检察官心理健康状况实证调查研究

检察官心理健康状况直接关系到其角色发挥和司法公正大局。然而检察工作“三高”现象直接影响着检察官心理健康，检察官心理问题较为突出。检察官心理层面压力表现为工作高要求和任务繁重导致自我提高时间较少的矛盾、工作专注化要求与检察官角色多重性之间的矛盾。调查中发现检察官自我效能感低于普通人，而抑郁程度却显著高于普通人，公诉和反贪部门检察官压力更为明显。为改善检察官心理健康状况，需要从提高检察官队伍素质、完善身份保障及重点调整高压力部门等方面予以改善。