INTRODUCTION: Community Base Corrections “CBC” are another form of a prison sentence, however, not all people convicted of a crime are entitled to CBC’s. When it comes to female offenders, that option is even fewer, most research was conducted on the male population. Often times female offenders would need special services for their chance to achieve a successful completion of parole. CBC’s can be a great way for female offenders to resurrect their lives if/when given the proper programing. There needs to be a study conducted just on the female population to get a clearer picture of the true base rate of recidivism for the female population. In a 1997 survey, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics “a fifth of State prisoners were drug
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The mental health female offender needs are growing. To trace the mental health problem to its original cause, researchers has found that often times the mental health problems are linked to the offender’s childhood “surveys conducted among incarcerated women have consistently shown a strong link between childhood abuse and adult mental health problems, particularly depression, posttraumatic stress, panic, and eating disorders.” (Messina, 2006). Mental health counseling is not a one program fits all kind of fix. This program is designed specifically for those female offenders that are in need of mental health assistance for their mental health problems of depression, Posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD, and in some cases eating …show more content…
There is a four-item screening process to determine PTSD’s presents. Those events would indicate that indeed there were life stressors or criterion-related signs for PTSD or those with co-occurring substance abuse as well “Individuals with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are at more than 4 times the risk for substance use disorders (SUD) than the general population” (Kimerling, 2006). As indicated, a female offender diagnosed with PTSD is often associated with substance abuse and the two together can become a gateway to crime. The two comorbid components combined can make it difficult for a counselor to separate the two conditions in order to treat them
The mental health female offender needs are growing. To trace the mental health problem to its original cause, researchers has found that often times the mental health problems are linked to the offender’s childhood “surveys conducted among incarcerated women have consistently shown a strong link between childhood abuse and adult mental health problems, particularly depression, posttraumatic stress, panic, and eating disorders.” (Messina, 2006). Mental health counseling is not a one program fits all kind of fix. This program is designed specifically for those female offenders that are in need of mental health assistance for their mental health problems of depression, Posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD, and in some cases eating …show more content…
There is a four-item screening process to determine PTSD’s presents. Those events would indicate that indeed there were life stressors or criterion-related signs for PTSD or those with co-occurring substance abuse as well “Individuals with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are at more than 4 times the risk for substance use disorders (SUD) than the general population” (Kimerling, 2006). As indicated, a female offender diagnosed with PTSD is often associated with substance abuse and the two together can become a gateway to crime. The two comorbid components combined can make it difficult for a counselor to separate the two conditions in order to treat them