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From the Crime to Doing the Time: What is it Like to Receive Mental Health Care in Prison

Speaker(s):

Jennifer White, MEd, LPC  and Patrick Finder, MS

Presentation: Many people, both in mental health and law enforcement, say that prisons have now become the primary place for treatment of the serious mentally ill. This presentation is meant to provide an honest exploration of mental health care in prison. Is what you see on TV reality? This is a behind the scenes glimpse into life behind bars will provide an introduction to modalities of mental health care in corrections and the most effective therapeutic approaches. Those in attendance will be offered descriptions of the work environment within the prisons, the type of mental health patients that will be encountered as well at the more effective therapeutic interventions that can be offered. Both the pros and the cons of the fascinating area of forensic mental health will be explored.

Objectives:

  • Recognize how the United States correctional environment has become the primary provider of mental health care.
  • Review therapeutic approaches use in working with this population.
  • Explain what it is like to be an individual incarcerated in a Missouri prison and the mental health problems that may have led to the incarceration as well as mental health problems that can develop due to incarceration.

Slides:

White_Christine Journey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Treating People with Intellectual Disabilities and Sex Offending Behavior

Speaker(s):

Sharon Robbins, PhD and Lee Ann McVay, PsyD

Presentation: Treating people with intellectual disabilities and sex offending behavior is a challenge. This presentation will include a variety of issues in treatment. Terminology in intellectual disabilities is at times different than terminology used when working with sex offenders. Offense characteristics are different in people with intellectual disabilities and sex offending behavior. Specific diagnoses related to sex offenders may present differently in sex offenders with intellectual disabilities. Assessment based treatment is important in addressing the sex offending behavior. Consideration of risk is more complicated and individualized. Comprehensive treatment planning on an individualized basis is important for successful treatment.

Objectives:

  • Identify terminology issues associated with people with intellectual disabilities and sex offending behavior.
  • Explain how functional behavior analysis can be applied to sex offending behaviors.
  • Recognize treatment needs for people with intellectual disabilities and sex offending behaviors.

Slides:

Robbins_Treating People with Intellectual Disabilities and Sex Offending

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Re-Examination of Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder

Speaker(s):

Mark Moore, MA, LPC, NCC and Rachel Colwick, MA, LPC, NCC

Presentation: The presentation will consist of a contemporary review of the literature involving psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder, along with their relationships to substance abuse and sexually violent predators. Further, the similarities and differences between psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder will be discussed; as well as, what is considered best practice in terms of clinical interventions or strategies for working with these populations. Specifically, but not limited to, the presentation will address the challenges professionals might face in working with these populations in variety of settings such as clinical outpatient or inpatient, prisons, hospitals, and other medical facilities, to name a few.

Objectives:

  • Interpret the differences and commonalities between psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder
  • Recognize the prevalence among different populations (i.e. sexual offenders, non-sexual offenders, and substance abuse) within a variety of professional settings
  • Explain what is considered best practice regarding clinical strategies or interventions in working with these populations
  • Define the common countertransference reactions professionals will face and the skills to manage them

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Nolin, PhD, Marta

Dr. Marta Nolin has worked for Mo DOC for 19 years the past 12 of which she has served as an Assistant Division Director for the Div of Offender Rehabilitative Services with oversight of substance use disorders services. In her “past lives” she has worked in various clinical positions in private practice, hospital and college & university settings in Massachusetts, Ohio & Missouri. She also worked in the College Student Personnel field and also an adjunct faculty member in various colleges and universities. She moved to Missouri 30 years ago for the Counseling Psychology doctoral program at UMC.

Presentation(s)

Effective Collaborations to incorporate MAT and enhance the Continuity of Care for Corrections Involved clients

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Doherty, Stephen

Stephen Doherty, Regional Director with Gateway Foundation provides operational oversight of 9 Gateway program sites in Missouri providing substance use disorder and co-occurring disorder treatment to adults involved in the criminal justice system. Mr. Doherty has over 25 years of experience in the behavioral health treatment field, and eight years as an adjunct faculty member.

Presentation(s)

Effective Collaborations to incorporate MAT and enhance the Continuity of Care for Corrections Involved clients

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Robertson, PhD, Christopher

Christopher Robertson, PhD is a Missouri Department of Mental Health Certified Forensic Examiner at Center for Behavioral Medicine, which operates an outpatient forensic evaluation department and an inpatient competency restoration unit. Dr. Robertson obtained a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

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Anderson, Shawn, PhD

Shawn Anderson, Ph.D. is the Director of Psychology and Psychology Training at Center for Behavioral Medicine and is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She received her doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is a graduate of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr Anderson conducted research on competency restoration with individuals with developmental disabilities, the results of which were presented in 1998 at a Missouri Department of Mental Health forensic conference and published in the June 2002 issue of Law and Human Behavior.