Telepsychiatry: An Appropriate Approach For Parolees With Psychiatric Disorders?
Background & Purpose
There is a higher prevalence of mental illness among prison inmates, probationers, and parolees when compared with the general population. Treatment for paroled individuals reentering their communities is not always readily available, particularly for those who live in rural areas. Telemedicine has been used with rural populations to reduce this treatment disparity, but there is a lack of methodologically rigorous research as to whether this approach is effective with underserved groups, including the justice-involved population. In a report …
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