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Join us for this FREE training: An Introduction to Correctional Mental Health June 11, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific 1.5 Hours | 1.5 CEs | Free Live Training via Zoom -- The U.S. incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world. The incarcerated population is overrepresented by people of color, LGBTQ persons, and people with extensive mental health, substance use, and trauma-related needs. In addition, criminogenic needs must be addressed to reduce reoffending risk. The US correctional system provides opportunities for mental health professionals to contribute their science as clinicians, researchers, and policy advocates. Adequate mental health interventions are essential to prevent suicide and violence, mitigate stress, and overall increase the chances of rehabilitation and recovery. -- This session would be appropriate for individuals wanting to work with incarcerated clients in jails or prisons, including students, early career, or professionals who want more background in correctional mental health. 🆓 Click to register: https://hubs.ly/Q02rSyWl0 -- Virginia Barber Rioja, PhD and Ashley Batastini, PhD present a live virtual professional training program on An Introduction to Correctional Mental Health. This free program is part of Palo Alto University's At the Forefront of Psychology & Counseling series, in which PAU experts tackle pressing and emerging issues.

Join us for this FREE training: An Introduction to Correctional Mental Health June 11, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific 1.5 Hours | 1.5 CEs | Free Live Training via Zoom -- The U.S. incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world. The incarcerated population is overrepresented by people of color, LGBTQ persons, and people with extensive mental health, substance use, and trauma-related needs. In addition, criminogenic needs must be addressed to reduce reoffending risk. The US correctional system provides opportunities for mental health professionals to contribute their science as clinicians, researchers, and policy advocates. Adequate mental health interventions are essential to prevent suicide and violence, mitigate stress, and overall increase the chances of rehabilitation and recovery. -- This session would be appropriate for individuals wanting to work with incarcerated clients in jails or prisons, including students, early career, or professionals who want more background in correctional mental health. 🆓 Click to register: https://hubs.li/Q02r-WCs0 -- Virginia Barber Rioja, PhD and Ashley Batastini, PhD present a live virtual professional training program on An Introduction to Correctional Mental Health. This free program is part of Palo Alto University's At the Forefront of Psychology & Counseling series, in which PAU experts tackle pressing and emerging issues. CONCEPT Continuing & Professional Studies Division, Palo Alto University

Join us TOMORROW for this FREE training: An Introduction to Correctional Mental Health June 11, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific 1.5 Hours | 1.5 CEs | Free Live Training via Zoom 🆓 Click to register: https://bit.ly/3Vew1HE -- The U.S. incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world. The incarcerated population is overrepresented by people of color, LGBTQ persons, and people with extensive mental health, substance use, and trauma-related needs. In addition, criminogenic needs must be addressed to reduce reoffending risk. The US correctional system provides opportunities for mental health professionals to contribute their science as clinicians, researchers, and policy advocates. Adequate mental health interventions are essential to prevent suicide and violence, mitigate stress, and overall increase the chances of rehabilitation and recovery. -- This session would be appropriate for individuals wanting to work with incarcerated clients in jails or prisons, including students, early career, or professionals who want more background in correctional mental health. -- Virginia Barber Rioja, PhD and Ashley Batastini, PhD present a live virtual professional training program on An Introduction to Correctional Mental Health. This free program is part of Palo Alto University's At the Forefront of Psychology & Counseling series, in which PAU experts tackle pressing and emerging issues. CONCEPT Continuing & Professional Studies Division, Palo Alto University

Join us next week for this FREE training: An Introduction to Correctional Mental Health June 11, 2024 | 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific 1.5 Hours | 1.5 CEs | Free Live Training via Zoom 🆓 Click to register: https://bit.ly/3Vew1HE -- The U.S. incarcerates far more people than any other country in the world. The incarcerated population is overrepresented by people of color, LGBTQ persons, and people with extensive mental health, substance use, and trauma-related needs. In addition, criminogenic needs must be addressed to reduce reoffending risk. The US correctional system provides opportunities for mental health professionals to contribute their science as clinicians, researchers, and policy advocates. Adequate mental health interventions are essential to prevent suicide and violence, mitigate stress, and overall increase the chances of rehabilitation and recovery. -- This session would be appropriate for individuals wanting to work with incarcerated clients in jails or prisons, including students, early career, or professionals who want more background in correctional mental health. -- Virginia Barber Rioja, PhD and Ashley Batastini, PhD present a live virtual professional training program on An Introduction to Correctional Mental Health. This free program is part of Palo Alto University's At the Forefront of Psychology & Counseling series, in which PAU experts tackle pressing and emerging issues. CONCEPT Continuing & Professional Studies Division, Palo Alto University

Truth to be told, character Reformation is needed for any bully. Some children resort to taking substances, eloped from home, and exhibit Anti-social behaviours as a result of broken homes, maltreatment, child abuse and lack of parental guidance. Juveniles who need rehabilitation could be identified through emotional state; isolation and anger, through Behaviour and anti-social behaviours. I could only imagine a teenager slapping her peer because of boyfriend and still having the audacity to put on the camera. That's the little we see on camera. Personally, I'll recommend Character Reformation to that child. We will talk about our school curriculum some other time, we need to teach beyond maths and sciences, and building character and emotional intelligence are subjects to be included in our curriculum. Some individuals who are ex-convicts shouldn't be tagged but be supported with love and respect. However, society sees ex-convicts as someone who is not fit to be in the society. I've had a couple of experiences with sad stories of how some prisoners found themselves in the prisons, some are unfortunate to walk into the crime scene and then, that's all. As our correctional centre is, in Nigeria, the rehabilitation centres are trying, yet, we can help them with re-entry into society. If we fail them with our perception of their personality when they return from the correctional centre, it literally means we are encouraging them to return to their misbehaviours or criminal acts. I had an interview with Mr Zubair AbdulHafeez, Director of Beyond Recovery Reformation Centre (BREC), our discussion was centred on "From Rehabilitation to Improve: Bridging the Gap Between Reformation Centres and Social Re-entry" I commend his effort in putting the centre together, it's a way to go! He focuses on "Character Reformation of the juveniles" For those teenagers who find smoking or taking drugs easy, behave abnormally, and see no correction as a way to be a better person, Character Reformation may be of help, we don't need to keep them at home (hiding) or leave them on their own to walk the path of destruction. Here's a plead to our State government and Federal government to please look into life after prison/rehabilitation. Prisoners welfare matters. You can listen to the discussion here.👇🏽 https://lnkd.in/dcYZC8YK Barakat Adejumo 🌹 #LifeAfterPrison #Rehabilitation #Notobully #radioshow #government #character #life

Back in 2018, Canadian researchers published the results from first extensive study of the mental health across a wide range of public safety personnel (PSP). Here we have an update from one subset of PSP - correctional workers. This survey sampled a wider range of occupations with the correctional service, and workers from all provinces and territories. The findings show higher rates of poor mental health compared to the Canadian public, as well as higher rates of poor mental health in some correctional occupations and locations than others. The paper is open source and can be read by everyone: https://lnkd.in/gaPG4P9K “Purpose Canadian correctional workers (CWs) experience substantial challenges with mental health, but prevalence estimates have been limited across provincial and territorial services. Methods Participating CWs from all 13 provincial and territorial services (n = 3740) self-selected to complete an online mental health and well-being survey assessing sociodemographic characteristics and symptoms of several mental disorders. Participants worked as correctional officers, community operations (e.g., probation officers), institutional operations (e.g., program officers), community administrators (e.g., managers), institutional or regional headquarters administrators, or institutional management (e.g., superintendents). Results Across Canada, participants screened positive for one or more mental disorders (57.9%), with several regional differences (ps < 0.05). Correctional officers reported more positive screens than other CWs (ps < 0.05). Years of service and being married were inversely related with mental health (ps < 0.05).”

Thanks to the team and all the services who made this happen. An overview of mental health disorder prevalence among all provincial and territorial corrrectional service employees in Canada

Check out our latest research article about how federal Correctional Officers (COs) in Canada experience and manage boredom and its collateral effect on well-being. Excited to be a part of this one! (Dale Spencer ; Rosemary Ricciardelli ; Kat Richard ) Abstract: Despite early calls to pay attention to the role of emotions in crime and criminal justice, including in prison studies, empirical research focusing on emotions in the administration of criminal justice has been sporadic. With notable exceptions, little attention has been paid to the role of boredom, meaning, and the labour processes of criminal justice personnel more broadly, and correctional officers specifically. We fill the lacuna in knowledge by examining the relationship between boredom, temporality, the labour process of correctional officers, meaning making, and officer wellness. We first offer an overview of boredom as an emotion and its contribution to meaning making. We then outline the labour process of correctional officers, reviewing literature on the structure of their carceral work environments and their experiences of boredom. We draw on 651 interviews with correctional officer recruits (n = 375) and follow-up interviews with correctional officers (n = 276) within federal prisons across Canada to understand the emotional experiences of correctional work, specifically focusing on boredom as a dominant emotion and its effect on officer wellness. Our study uses a phenomenological approach to consider how boredom plays a role in the daily lives of those providing security within prison spaces, how prison officers make sense of their work in relation to temporality and boredom, and how boredom and havoc contributes to poor officer wellness. https://lnkd.in/e9gY5epH

Don't miss our interview with Victoria L. Kuhn, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, USA "A continuing theme for my administration is the importance of strategic planning and ensuring that we maintain and improve our facilities.  The Department continues to invest in infrastructure that contributes to the current health and safety of staff and incarcerated persons, while also advancing projects that foster reintegration through education, vocational, and social service programmes. Similar to correctional agencies across the country, we continue to face challenges of contraband, including the uniqueness of synthetic drugs entering facilities on paper and mail. NJDOC continues to invest in technology that offers proactive, preventative, and layered approaches to prevent the infiltration of drugs into prisons. Most recently, the New Jersey Department of Corrections became the second statewide corrections agency in the country to equip and deploy body-worn cameras in all correctional facilities and specialised units. The deployment of body-worn cameras improves our accountability measures, preserves evidence, and aids in resolving investigations more quickly. These cameras help the Department protect the staff, the incarcerated population, and those who visit our institutions. We know that technological advances move quickly, and are pursuing the expansion of limited internet and Wi-Fi access in our facilities. This will allow incarcerated persons greater access to online learning, a powerful tool that can open doors to new opportunities and help them become comfortable using modern technology, instilling a sense of hope and motivation. The Department continues to explore, develop, and implement mitigation efforts to reduce violence, develop programmes that reward positive and pro-social behaviour and reinforce a zero-tolerance policy for aggressive conduct, all to promote pro-social behaviour." Read the interview at the 12th Edition of the JUSTICE TRENDS Magazine: https://lnkd.in/d4QRJrt9 #corrections #prisons #justice #probation #rehabilitation #digitaltransformation

Here is the latest article (Open Access) from our research team in public safety, published in the Journal of Criminal Justice, which draws on a national sample of provincial and territorial correctional workers. Title: "Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health" Abstract: Purpose: Canadian correctional workers (CWs) experience substantial challenges with mental health, but prevalence estimates have been limited across provincial and territorial services. Methods: Participating CWs from all 13 provincial and territorial services (n = 3740) self-selected to complete an online mental health and well-being survey assessing sociodemographic characteristics and symptoms of several mental disorders. Participants worked as correctional officers, community operations (e.g., probation officers), institutional operations (e.g., program officers), community administrators (e.g., managers), institutional or regional headquarters administrators, or institutional management (e.g., superintendents). Results: Across Canada, participants screened positive for one or more mental disorders (57.9%), with several regional differences (ps < 0.05). Correctional officers reported more positive screens than other CWs (ps < 0.05). Years of service and being married were inversely related with mental health (ps < 0.05). Conclusions: The current results suggest provincial and territorial CWs report mental health challenges much more frequently than the diagnostic prevalence for the general public (10.1%) and need additional supports. Unexpectedly, there were absent elevations associated with data collected after the onset of COVID-19. https://lnkd.in/eRkD6S4f #mentalhealth #corrections #ptsd