From the Discipline of Law, a Frontier for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
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Therapeutic jurisprudence, criminal court mental health initiatives, rehabilitation science, psychiatric rehabilitation, recovery, interdisciplinaryAbstract
While largely unknown to the field of psychiatric rehabilitation, therapeutic jurisprudence emerged from the separate discipline of law as a theoretical approach that maximizes the law's potential for therapeutic outcomes and provides a “philosophic foundation” for criminal court responses to people with mental ill- ness. Although a rehabilitative response is its key animating principle, therapeutic jurisprudence was de- veloped with little reference to—or mutual benefit from—psychiatric rehabilitation. This paper describes the legal concept of therapeutic jurisprudence and criminal court mental health initiatives from the per- spective of psychiatric rehabilitation. It argues that these developments represent an interdisciplinary op- portunity for psychiatric rehabilitation.
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