Learner 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.
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
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
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Learner 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.
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Learner 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
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Learning Objectives
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Describe the need for continuity of care for the offender from substance use treatment facility into the community.
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Identify different criteria included in the offender’s needs assessment upon entering treatment.
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Define principles and criteria of transition plans.
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List commonly used sanctions.
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List commonly used rewards.
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Describe events in the criminal’s developmental life that could have led to their particular way of thinking and acting.
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Define criteria included in discharge planning.
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List indicators of treatment success.
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List services that are important to incorporate into the life of an offender being discharged from inpatient treatment.
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Identify special issues or circumstances that require additional services or attention.
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Define confidentiality guidelines and regulations.
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
TIP 44: Substance Abuse Treatment for Adults in the Criminal Justice System
Contact Hours:30 Hours
Facilitator: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC,
Based on the Text: Substance Abuse Treatment for Adults in the Criminal Justice System. Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 44. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Rockville (MD): Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (US); 2005. Report No.: (SMA) 05-4056
Objectives
Screening and Assessment
Definitions of Terms
Screening Guidelines
Assessment Guidelines
Key Issues Related to Screening and Assessment
Areas To Address in Screening and Assessment
Selection and Implementation of Instruments
Screening and Assessment Considerations for Specific Populations
Triage and Placement in Treatment Services
Treatment Levels and Components
Potential Barriers to Triage and Placement
Creating a Triage and Placement System
Compiling Information To Guide Triage and Placement Decisions
Substance Abuse Treatment Planning
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
Clinical Strategies
Program Components and Strategies
Conclusions and Recommendations
Adapting Offender Treatment for Specific Populations
Treatment Issues Related to Cultural Minorities
Women's Treatment Issues
Men's Treatment Issues
Working With Violent Offenders
Treatment Issues Based on Client's Sexual Orientation
Treatment Issues Based on the Client's Cognitive/Learning, Physical, and Sensory Disabilities
Treatment Issues for Older Adults
Treatment Issues for Clients From Rural Areas
Treatment Issues for People With Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders
People With Infectious Diseases
Sex Offenders
Conclusions and Recommendations
Treatment Issues in Pretrial and Diversion Settings
Characteristics of the Population
Treatment Services in the Pretrial Justice System
Trial and Postverdict Periods
Diversion to Treatment
What Treatment Services Can Reasonably Be Provided in the Pretrial Setting?
Treatment Issues
Developing Pretrial Treatment Services
Resources
Conclusions and Recommendations
Treatment Issues Specific to Jails
Treatment Services in Jails
Description of the Population
Key Issues Related to Treatment
What Treatment Services Can Reasonably Be Provided in a Jail Setting?
Coordination of Jail Treatment Services
Examples of Jail Treatment Programs
Research Related to Jail Treatment
Recommendations for Treatment Providers
Treatment Issues Specific to Prisons
Overview
Description of the Population
Treatment Services in Prisons
Key Issues Affecting Treatment in Prison Settings
What Treatment Services Can Reasonably Be Provided in the Prison Setting?
In-Prison Therapeutic Communities
Specific Populations in Prisons
Systems Issues
Treatment for Offenders Under Community Supervision
Overview
The Population
Levels of Supervision
Treatment Levels and Treatment Components
What Treatment Services Can Reasonably Be Provided for People Under Community Supervision?
Treatment Issues for People Under Community Supervision
Treatment Issues Specific to People on Parole
Treatment Issues Specific to Probationers
Strategies for Improving System Collaboration
Sample Programs
Key Issues Related to Program Development
Overview
Reconciling Public Safety and Public Health Interests
Interdependence of Criminal Justice and Treatment Systems
Program-Level Coordination
Research and Evaluation
Cost Issues
Based on the Text: Substance Abuse Treatment for Adults in the Criminal Justice System. Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series, No. 44. Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. Rockville (MD): Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (US); 2005. Report No.: (SMA) 05-4056
Objectives
Screening and Assessment
Definitions of Terms
Screening Guidelines
Assessment Guidelines
Key Issues Related to Screening and Assessment
Areas To Address in Screening and Assessment
Selection and Implementation of Instruments
Screening and Assessment Considerations for Specific Populations
Triage and Placement in Treatment Services
Treatment Levels and Components
Potential Barriers to Triage and Placement
Creating a Triage and Placement System
Compiling Information To Guide Triage and Placement Decisions
Substance Abuse Treatment Planning
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
Clinical Strategies
Program Components and Strategies
Conclusions and Recommendations
Adapting Offender Treatment for Specific Populations
Treatment Issues Related to Cultural Minorities
Women's Treatment Issues
Men's Treatment Issues
Working With Violent Offenders
Treatment Issues Based on Client's Sexual Orientation
Treatment Issues Based on the Client's Cognitive/Learning, Physical, and Sensory Disabilities
Treatment Issues for Older Adults
Treatment Issues for Clients From Rural Areas
Treatment Issues for People With Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Disorders
People With Infectious Diseases
Sex Offenders
Conclusions and Recommendations
Treatment Issues in Pretrial and Diversion Settings
Characteristics of the Population
Treatment Services in the Pretrial Justice System
Trial and Postverdict Periods
Diversion to Treatment
What Treatment Services Can Reasonably Be Provided in the Pretrial Setting?
Treatment Issues
Developing Pretrial Treatment Services
Resources
Conclusions and Recommendations
Treatment Issues Specific to Jails
Treatment Services in Jails
Description of the Population
Key Issues Related to Treatment
What Treatment Services Can Reasonably Be Provided in a Jail Setting?
Coordination of Jail Treatment Services
Examples of Jail Treatment Programs
Research Related to Jail Treatment
Recommendations for Treatment Providers
Treatment Issues Specific to Prisons
Overview
Description of the Population
Treatment Services in Prisons
Key Issues Affecting Treatment in Prison Settings
What Treatment Services Can Reasonably Be Provided in the Prison Setting?
In-Prison Therapeutic Communities
Specific Populations in Prisons
Systems Issues
Treatment for Offenders Under Community Supervision
Overview
The Population
Levels of Supervision
Treatment Levels and Treatment Components
What Treatment Services Can Reasonably Be Provided for People Under Community Supervision?
Treatment Issues for People Under Community Supervision
Treatment Issues Specific to People on Parole
Treatment Issues Specific to Probationers
Strategies for Improving System Collaboration
Sample Programs
Key Issues Related to Program Development
Overview
Reconciling Public Safety and Public Health Interests
Interdependence of Criminal Justice and Treatment Systems
Program-Level Coordination
Research and Evaluation
Cost Issues
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
Contact Hours: 4
Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes
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
- Teacher: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes