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Podcast: UCLA Public Mental Health Partnership
Episode: Justice Involved Mental Health: Combatting Recidivism, Part 1
Description: The purpose of this training is to introduce treatment providers to the Justice Involved Mental Health (JIMH) population, specifically parolees, and how to provide effective treatment. It is our responsibility to keep the community safe with two primary goals in mind: reduce psychiatric hospitalizations and combat recidivism. There are several aspects regarding treatment provision for parolees to successfully accomplish these goals. The experience of incarceration is traumatic, as such our initial focus will center upon engaging and establishing rapport with parolees through a trauma-informed lens. Adjusting to the community is another barrier that will need to be addressed when...