Learner Objectives:

1. Identify the administrative, organizational, and ethical issues relevant to Mental Health Services in a correctional setting.
2. Identify typical offender problems in many correctional systems and how they are customarily managed.
3. 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

• 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.

• 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

Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the need for continuity of care for the offender from substance use treatment facility into the community.
2. Identify different criteria included in the offender’s needs assessment upon entering treatment.
3. Define principles and criteria of transition plans.
4. List commonly used sanctions.
5. List commonly used rewards.
6. Describe events in the criminal’s developmental life that could have led to their particular way of thinking and acting.
7. Define criteria included in discharge planning.
8. List indicators of treatment success.
9. List services that are important to incorporate into the life of an offender being discharged from inpatient treatment.
10. Identify special issues or circumstances that require additional services or attention.
11. Define confidentiality guidelines and regulations.

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