In this episode we review a number of topics, all either made relevant by or infused with concern over the pandemic.  These topics include:   Telemental Health and Masked Attorneys Institutional Care and Infection Control Déjà vu and Isn’t It Time for Community Corrections? Seizing Opportunity in Crisis Check out all of our episodes at Forensic InService Our podcast can also be found on most major platforms, including Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Google Play Music, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, & Radio.com. Several of our episodes are also available with capt ..read more

In this episode we discuss the effects of the current pandemic and mega-disaster on mental health, as well as how daily life has changed over the past month. Check out all of our episodes at Forensic InService ..read more

In this episode we discuss the various aspects of Reentry, especially as they relate to persons with mental illness. We cover the reentry of insanity acquittals, as well as former inmates and explore the numerous issues that impede that process. Check out all of our episodes at Forensic InService **Mature Content** We mention both the Treatment Advocacy Center and the Vera Institute of Justice several times. Both of these organizations do amazing work. Please visit their site and check them out! Please also check out our interview with John Snook, executive director of the Treatment Advocacy C ..read more

In this episode we discuss the infamous murder trial of Loepold & Loeb, who in 1924 kidnapped and murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago. The crime would come to be regarded, at least until the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, as the murder of the century. We take a look at their behavior and the psychiatric testimony. Check out all of our episodes at Forensic InService   Our other episodes can also be found on most major platforms, including Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Google Play Music, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, & Radio.com. Several of our episodes are al ..read more

In this episode we discuss mental health practice in the courtroom, including the court and legal processes, our roles as educators, and our obligations to our clients. Check out all of our episodes at Forensic InService Our other episodes can also be found on most major platforms, including Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Google Play Music, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, & Radio.com. Several of our episodes are also available on YouTube   Follow me on Twitter @StephenKoonz Forensic InService podcast is produced under Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Our artw ..read more

In this episode we review a recent article from the BBC, by Danny Shaw, which reported that a recent study of the sex offender programs in England and Wales showed that completers recidivated at a higher rate than noncompleters. We delve into a discussion on the efficacy of sex offender treatment in general terms, as well as some programmatic difficulties programs encounter. *MATURE THEME* References: Shaw, D. (10/8/19). Sex offender: 'I've never had so many deviant thoughts.' BBC: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49973318 For more on the Good Lives Model visit: https://www.good ..read more

SUMMARY In this episode we discuss the interplay between mental illness & substance abuse and how this interplay affects negative outcomes. Dr. Prices provides a comparison between serious mental illness and personality disorders, and together we review general risk factors, policy issues, and provide and overview of substance abuse. MATURE THEME References for this episode: https://timeline.com/willowbrook-the-institution-that-shocked-a-nation-into-changing-its-laws-c847acb44e0d Treatment Advocacy Center: https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/evidence-and-research  The Vera Institu ..read more

Safety or relapse prevention plans are used in a number of areas of forensic mental health treatment, such as with persons with histories of substance abuse or sexual offending.  This final episode in our series on relapse prevention, which includes our episodes Relapse Prevention with an Offender Population and Offense Cycles, as well as our post Lapse Map, explores numerous applications of offense cycles and a discussion on working with resistive recipients. Each of these can be accessed on a variety of platforms or at forensicinservice.com   ..read more

     As a follow-up to our last episode on Relapse Prevention with an Offender Population, in this episode we discuss offense cycles and node-link mapping. Both of these models are compatible with treatment programs based in relapse prevention that rely on cognitive-behavioral approaches. For this episode we also have a corresponding blog post, titled The Lapse Map. Contained within that blog post is a free download of a general lapse map we created during our work with sex offenders and recently updated.     As an additional bonus, please see our post under ..read more

TODAY’S TOPIC    Relapse Prevention (RP), often interwoven with cognitive-behavioral techniques, is perhaps the most widely used treatment model in addictions. The model is also used with numerous other types of behaviors, including sex offending behavior. This episode provides an in-depth discussion on relapse prevention and its application to persons with histories of violent and criminal behavior.   This conversation focuses on:   Description of RP How does RP differ with an offender population RP’s adaptability to offender populations and the criminal justice system Wi ..read more