Abstract
Mental health programs have not made a significant impact on the correctional field as a whole. Both the shortcomings of the correctional environment, which have been stressed, and the shortcomings of the mental health approach in correction, which have been ignored, have contributed to this failure. Despite these inadequacies, mental health personnel can make useful contri butions in the correctional setting if traditional concepts are modified and new roles are developed. The ideal role not only includes the traditional functions of diagnosis and therapy, but also stresses milieu activities. This latter function can be accom plished only by an active, personal involvement in a correctional setting.
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