• 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

• 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

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

• 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.

• 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