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Consultation is available to county, state and federal agencies on a range of issues related to care and treatment of justice-involved adults with serious mental illness in community settings, including: 

  • Implementing, operating, and evaluating forensic assertive community treatment programs
  • Involving community stakeholders in identifying opportunities for service delivery improvement
  • Building cross-systems collaboration between mental health and criminal justice professionals
  • Promoting criminologically informed mental health services
  • Promoting clinically informed criminal justice services
  • Developing person-centered, trauma-informed service delivery systems
  • Ensuring safe practice in high-risk community settings

Featured Publications

The First Publication on Forensic Assertive Community Treatment:

  • Lamberti JS, Weisman R, Faden D.  Forensic assertive community treatment:  Preventing incarceration of adults with severe mental illness.  Psychiatric Services 55:1285-1293, 2004.

A Framework for Preventing Criminal Recidivism Among People with Serious Mental Illness:

  • Lamberti JS.  Understanding and preventing criminal recidivism among adults with psychotic disorders.  Psychiatric Services 58:773-781, 2007.

Forensic Assertive Community Treatment in the United States:

  • Lamberti JS, Weisman RL.  “Forensic Assertive Community Treatment:  Origins, Current Practice and Future Directions.  In:  Reentry Planning for Offenders with Mental Disorders:  Policy and Practice.  Dlucacz H, Ed.  Civic Research Institute, Kingston NY.  Chapter 7:1-14, 2010.

The Role of Probation in Forensic Assertive Community Treatment:

  • Lamberti JS, Deem A, Weisman RL et al.  The role of probation in forensic assertive community treatment.  Psychiatric Services 62:418-421, 2011.

Predictors of Arrest During Forensic Assertive Community Treatment:

  • Erickson S, Lamberti JS, Weisman RL et al. The role of probation in forensic assertive community treatment.  Psychiatric Services 60:834-837, 2009

Use of Legal Authority to Promote Treatment Adherence

  • Lamberti JS, Russ A, Cerruli K, et al.  Perceptions of autonomy and coercion among recipients of legal leverage in forensic assertive community treatment. Harvard Review of Psychiatry 22:222-230, 2014

A Framework for Promoting Effective Mental Health and Criminal Justice Collaboration

  • Lamberti JS.  Preventing criminal recidivism through mental health and criminal justice collaboration.  Psychiatric Services 67:1206-1212, 2016

A Randomized Controlled Trial of Forensic Assertive Community Treatment

  • Lamberti JS, Weisman RL, Cerulli K et al.  A randomized controlled trial of the Rochester forensic assertive community treatment model.  Psychiatric Services 68:1016-1024, 2017

A Review of Community-Based Intervention for Justice-Involved Patients

  • Weisman RL, Lamberti JS, Ciccone JR.  Community-based interventions for justice-involved individuals with serious mental disorders.  In, Principles and Practice of Forensic Psychiatry, Third Edition.  Rosner R, and Scott CL, Eds.  CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2017

A Review of Psychosis, Mania and Criminal Justice System Involvement

  • Lamberti JS, Katsetos V, Jacobowitz D et al.  Psychosis, Mania and Criminal Recidivism:  Associations and Implications for Prevention.  Harvard Review of Psychiatry 28:179-202, 2020

Fidelity Scale for Forensic Assertive Community Treatment

  • Lamberti JS, Weisman RL.  Essential elements of forensic assertive community treatment.  Harvard Review of Psychiatry 29:278-297, 2021

Promoting Collaboration Through Inter-Agency Partnerships

  • Kamin D, Weisman RL, Lamberti JS.  Promoting mental health and criminal justice collaboration through system-level partnerships.  Frontiers in Psychiatry 13:1-8, 2021

Cost-Effectiveness of Forensic Assertive Community Treatment

  • Maeng D, Tsun Z, Lesch E, Lamberti JS:  Cost-effectiveness of the Rochester forensic assertive community model.  In Press:  Psychiatric Services