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Helping a Mentally Ill Loved One in a County Jail…
There are so many books that cross my desk I cannot focus my attention on every single one.
I just got a galley of a book with the title: Helping a Mentally Ill Loved One in a County Jail by Barry T. Schell, M.A. and I realized right away that there is a definite audience for this one.
Mug shots of the inmates of county jails have become a staple on newspaper websites. Relatives and loved ones scan these photographs searching for their own. According to this book there are 800,000 mentally ill individuals who are locked up in county jails and juvenile detention centers.
Do you know someone who is incarcerated and mentally ill? This book offers advice on how you can deal with the system and try to help those loved ones.
The book will be published in April.
Vick Mickunas
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By Invisible
January 16, 2010 12:27 PM | Link to this
Mental Health Professionals who do not know, themselves, how to adequately determine if a patient’s mental health status poses a threat, or who are unwilling to take the time to do evaluations, should not be in practice. Relying on someone “untrained” to make a judgment call on what to prescribe or how to treat a patient is not something any other type of doctor would likely do. But in “matters of the ‘unseen’ mind”, ‘conformity’ seems to rule over human rights and sometimes over a patient’s very dignity.
By AppalachianRose
January 16, 2010 12:11 PM | Link to this
I’ve known people who were Clinically Depressed and given ‘Klonopin’ of all things! (while also having a well documented history of drug adversity to Benzodiazepines) Someone should write that story!
By Mark
January 16, 2010 8:29 AM | Link to this
The best time to help someone with mental illness is BEFORE they go to the county jail. Have them go to your local community mental health agency. However, if they are in jail, call the jail mental health therapist and report the symptoms and diagnoses your loved one has. That will help the therapist determine the best course of action. Remember, many mentally ill people don’t want help, minimize or lie to get the therapist off their back. So your information is very important.