Objectives
  • Identify the administrative, organizational, and ethical issues relevant to Mental Health Services in a correctional setting.
  • Identify typical offender problems in many correctional systems and how they are customarily managed.
  • Explain various clinical and consultative activities offered by mental health professionals within correctional settings.

Objectives

  • Explore similarities between addiction and criminogenic thinking
  • Identify purpose, sources of information and areas of concern for screening
  • Explore the pitfalls of diagnosis in the CJ system
  • Identify preferred screening and assessment instruments and what they measure
  • Examine placement strategies based on criminality, mental health and addiction issues
  • Discuss general treatment issues in CJ including the purpose, intervention and alternatives
  • Consider barriers to effective treatment in the criminal justice system
  • Highlight unique needs of special populations including women and the elderly in the CJ system
Objectives
  • Examine the rates of substance-involved inmates in the criminal justice and identify rates of arrests, convictions, and recidivism for these populations.
  • Evaluate the role of race and ethnicity, and how social factors such as income, education, age, and family history impact substance abuse among criminal offenders.
  • Identify particular populations and problems needing special services in criminal justice settings
  • Identify components of effective substance abuse treatment within criminal justice settings.
  • Determine how to overcome barriers to treatment within prison populations
  • Recognize practical steps that government and criminal justice systems can take to combat substance abuse.
Objectives:
  • Identify the administrative, organizational, and ethical issues relevant to Mental Health Services in a correctional setting.
  • Identify typical offender problems in many correctional systems and how they are customarily managed.
  • Explain various clinical and consultative activities offered by mental health professionals within correctional settings.
  • Learn about professions in correctional mental health
  • Differentiate between level 1, 2 and 3 services in correctional mental health
  • Identify common challenges for mental health professionals working in the corrections field
  • Define and learn to identify malingering and the reasons/benefits for it

Objectives:

  • Compare and contrast the characteristics of recidivism and relapse
  • Examine the incentives for recidivism and relapse and ways to reduce their potency
  • Identify the challenges offenders face when they are released on parole.
  • Determine steps clinicians can take to facilitate a reduction in recidivism
Objectives
  • Describe the need for continuity of care for the offender from substance use treatment facility into the community.
  • Identify different criteria included in the offender’s needs assessment upon entering treatment.
  • Define principles and criteria of transition plans.
  • List commonly used sanctions.
  • List commonly used rewards.
  • Describe events in the criminal’s developmental life that could have led to their particular way of thinking and acting.
  • Define criteria included in discharge planning.
  • List indicators of treatment success.
  • List services that are important to incorporate into the life of an offender being discharged from inpatient treatment.
  • Identify special issues or circumstances that require additional services or attention.
  • Define confidentiality guidelines and regulations.
Objectives
  • Triage and Placement in Treatment Services in the Criminal Justice System
  • Assessing the Severity of Substance Use Disorders
  • Assessing the Severity of Co-Occurring Disorders
  • Criminality and Psychopathy
  • Client Motivation and Readiness for Change
  • Implementing an Effective Treatment Planning Process
  • Major Treatment Issues and Approaches
  • Adapting Offender Treatment for Specific Populations
  • Treatment Issues in Pretrial and Diversion Settings
  • Coordination of Jail Treatment Services
  • Treatment Issues for People Under Community Supervision
 

Objectives

  • Learn criminal justice theories and discuss their application in terms of punishment, rehabilitation, restorative justice, and deterrence
  • Apply these theories to criminal justice as well as addiction
  • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of each theory in terms of prevention and recidivism reduction in the offender with addiction or co-occurring disorders.
  • Define criminogenic thinking patterns
  • Compare and contrast criminogenic and addictive thinking patterns
  • Identify behaviors employed because of these thinking patterns
  • Explore the benefits to these behaviors and thinking patterns
  • Identify interventions to address these patterns