Lived experience of men accessing community mental health services following incarceration
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this research study was to gain an understanding of the lived experiences of men with a history of incarceration as they accessed community mental health services. Nine men between 30 and 51 years of age and living in a city on the Canadian Prairies participated in the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted using van Manen’s method of phenomenology. The knowledge gained from this study has implications for mental health practice, program development, education, and policy grounded in consideration of the needs and experiences of this population. Three main themes were identified: 1) risk in accessing services, 2) barriers to treatment, 3) judgement by healthcare professionals. The negative experiences that these people have endured have had a negative impact on the engagement to treatment and recovery of men with histories of incarceration and mental health concerns. The findings indicate a substantive need for a review of nursing education and practice associated with vulnerable populations and the development and respect of the therapeutic relationship. Program and policy development within correctional facilities and community-based mental health must be reviewed and transformed to support the recovery of persons with mental health needs who have involvement with the criminal justice system.\n\nKeywords: Incarceration, discrimination, barriers, community, mental health, hermeneutic phenomenology, risk, judgement, therapeutic relationship, recovery, nurse-researcher role conflict.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".