title: Juvenile mental health courts for adjudicated youth: role implications for child and adolescent psychiatric mental health nurses.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Juvenile mental health courts for adjudicated youth.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe the role of psychiatric nurses in reducing mental health disparities for adjudicated youth via juvenile mental health courts.
  
  
  METHODS
  ISI Web of Knowledge; Sage Journals Online; HighWire; PubMed; Google Scholar and Wiley Online Library and websites for psychiatric nursing organizations. Years included: 2000-2010.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Juvenile mental health courts may provide a positive and effective alternative to incarceration for youth with mental health problems with psychiatric nurses playing a key role in program implementation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. antoinette.burriss@duke.edu
authors.forename: F Antoinette
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Burriss
authors.forename: Alfiee M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Breland-Noble
authors.forename: Joe L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Webster
authors.forename: Jose A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Soto
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003416:Criminal Law / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D024802:Nurse's Role; D011329:Prisoners / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods; D014481:United States