Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes: A Treatment Program for Justice-Involved Persons with Mental Illness
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Training Description
Minimal progress in the treatment of justice-involved Persons with Mental Illness (PMI) has been made in the last 30 years (Snyder, 2007). To improve criminal justice outcomes, services must be provided that address the underlying causes of criminal behavior (e.g., Hodgins et al., 2007). Unfortunately, justice-involved PMI have limited access to comprehensive treatments that target co-occurring issues of mental illness and criminal behavior (Morgan et al., 2010). In this workshop, participants are provided with a model for and summary of evidenced-based interventions for justice-involved PMI in correctional or community mental health settings.
This 12-hour On Demand workshop is designed for professionals working to improve care for justice-involved PMI regardless of setting (e.g., community mental health, corrections, forensic). The workshop begins by reviewing the prevalence rates of mental illness in corrections, including both incarcerated and community settings. The workshop will then provide participants with evidenced-based correctional interventions for offenders and evidenced-based mental health interventions for PMI. Specifically, the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) will be reviewed as a model of service delivery for offenders, and psychosocial rehabilitation will be reviewed as a model of service delivery for PMI. Finally, participants will be provided with a theoretical model to guide interventions for justice-involved PMI, as well as to teach evidenced-based practices for intervening with this population. To accomplish this, the workshop presents criminality and mental illness as co-occurring problems, and the Changing Lives and Changing Outcomes: A Treatment Program for Justice Involved PMI, an evidenced-based intervention for this clinical population, will be summarized.
Training participants should have access to the book “Treatment Manual for Justice Involved Persons with Mental Illness” purchasable through the books publisher. For details, visit: https://www.routledge.com/A-Treatment-Manual-for-Justice-Involved-Persons-with-Mental-Illness-Changing/Morgan-Kroner-Mills/p/book/9781138700086
Trainer Biographies
Robert D. Morgan, PhD, completed his doctorate in Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in forensic psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Missouri Department of Mental Health. He is currently the John G. Skelton, Jr. Regents Endowed Professor in Psychology at Texas Tech University and also holds the positions of Chairperson for the university’s Department of Psychological Sciences and Director of the Institute for Forensic Science. Dr. Morgan’s research and scholarly activities include treatment and assessment of justice-involved persons with mental illness, effects of incarceration with an emphasis on incarceration in restricted housing units, and forensic mental health assessment. His research has been funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Justice, and the Center for Behavioral Health Services & Criminal Justice Research. Dr. Morgan has authored or co-authored over 80 peer reviewed articles and book chapters and 2 books: A Clinician’s Guide to Violence Risk Assessment and Careers in Psychology: Opportunities in a Changing World (3rd edition). He has provided forensic mental health services at the request of courts, defense, and prosecution, and consults with state and private correctional agencies to inform practice.
Daryl G. Kroner, PhD, is a Professor at the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Southern Illinois University (SIU). He has more than 20 years of experience in the field as a correctional psychologist and has worked at maximum, medium, and minimum security facilities delivering intervention services to incarcerated men. Dr. Kroner has consulted on prison management and release issues for clients including the Council of State Governments Justice Center and the UK’s National Offender Management System. He is the past-chair of Criminal Justice Psychology of the Canadian Psychological Association and past-chair of the Corrections Committee for the American Psychology and Law Society. He is also a fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association. In collaboration with Dr. Jeremy Mills, Dr. Kroner has developed several instruments, including the Measures of Criminal Attitudes and Associates (MCAA), Depression, Hopelessness and Suicide Scale (DHS), Criminal Attribution Inventory (CRAI), Antisocial, Transition Inventory (TI), and the Measures of Criminal and Antisocial Desistance (MCAD). His current research interests include risk assessment, measurement of intervention outcomes, interventions among offenders with mental illness, and criminal desistance.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Recognize the prevalence of mental illness among offenders in the criminal justice system
- Identify clinical presentation of persons with mental illness (PMI) in correctional and mental health settings
- Identify effective correctional interventions for justice-involved individuals
- Identify effective mental health interventions for persons with mental illness
- Identify applicable treatment strategies and an evidenced-based intervention for justice-involved PMI
- Identify the role and mechanism of assessment in the treatment process of justice-involved PMI
