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Title: Serious Mental Illness

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This essay will be talking about journal article review about serious mental illness offenders in correction. It will also talk about the premise of the journal article with its supports. It will talk about various areas which have been highly affected by the SMI and the challenges which are being faced towards offering effective treatment to the people with SMI. It will also talk about various needs which are associated with the challenges r problem in those areas. It will also talk about mental illness in the bible and how it was dealt with biblically. It will talk about the percentage of crimes and arrest which are associated with the serious mental illness. It will be talking about training which can be offered to the law enforcement officer’s inoder for them to be able to take care of the people with serious mental illness who have been involved in various crimes. And finally it will talk about proposed alternatives of dealing with the individuals with SMI according to the journal article.

 

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· Serious mental illness

 

· Community based treatment

 

· Disorder

 

· Alternative

 

· Taking care

 

· Courts

 

· Jails

 

· Law enforcement officers

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SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS

 

Different articles are used to deliver different information to the targeted audience. Some are written to challenge the wrong things which are happening in society while others are written to solve various challenges the society many be facing. The current world is facing different types of illnesses. Various types of illnesses require different forms of treatment and care. The treatment and the process of taking care of some people with a certain illness are more expensive than others. That depends on the requirements of the ill-treatment and also the level of the illness in a person. According to the managing the seriously mentally ill in corrections article, serious mental illness is addressed in different dimensions. Serious mental illness is said to be a behavioral, mental, or emotional form of the disorder that led to effective functional impairment which may cause greater limits in one’s life activities. This is said to be one of the worse types of illness because it affects the individual mind. That is because the mind of a person is said to be the center of every function one can do. That kind of illness has been associated with various crimes. Due to that every suspect who does who is involved in a serious crime should undergo a mental illness test to determine if he or she did it intentionally or as a result of serious mental illness. According to the article, the United States is in the midst of a mental health crisis. The majority of adults living with that kind of illness are said to lack the necessary treatment. Even according to the bible, in both old and new testament mental illness has been spoken about in different ways. Like in the Old Testament in the book of Jeremiah 51:7 were it says that the Babylon was a gold cup in the hand of the Lord but she made the entire world drunk via wine and through that, they have done mad. Then the madness which is being talked about is due to mental illness caused my use of wine. But also according to the article, not every serious crime is due to serious mental illness (Bota, Fraser & Groysman, 2017).

 

The article has explained different various areas in which the illness has affected and how the treatment has is hard to deliver in those areas. It has also talked about the needs which are required in those areas to deliver the required form of treatment. The article has talked about various issues and problems related to each area’s treatment services and its needs. The major areas which the article has talked about are community-based treatment, policing and public safety, institutional programming, data accountability, and overarching needs, and finally reentry coordination and relapse prevention. The first one is the community-based treatment. According to the article, the majority of the people with SMI do not get enough care and treatment within the community due to various reasons. Some of the reasons are, some individuals are usually not interested in engaging in treatme