Contat Hours: 32

Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes PhD, LMHC

Learner Objectives

• 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