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Correctional Officer Safety and Wellness …

(2 days ago) As noted above, correctional officers are at risk for anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and suicidal ideation – 10% of correctional officers have thought about killing themselves, but 73% haven’t told anyone, meaning that many are suffering in silence. Yet, where do we put the most emphasis in training?

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/correctional-officer-safety-and-wellness-what-we-learned-research-literature

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Correctional officers at high risk for depression, PTSD, …

(2 days ago) WEBMany officers said they were worried about privacy: One-fifth of correctional officers say they worry about repercussions if they were to reach out to EAP for help with work-related mental health issues. “Corrections is extremely difficult and emotionally demanding work,” says Amy Lerman, the lead author of the study and a …

https://news.berkeley.edu/2018/08/23/california-correctional-officers-at-high-risk-for-depression-ptsd-and-suicide-new-survey-finds/

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Correctional Officer Safety and Wellness — What We …

(2 days ago) WEBCorrectional officers play a pivotal role within the prison system. Yet, working as a correctional officer brings with it stressful and dangerous conditions that are unique to this line of work. Research has shown that correctional officers experience high stress levels, burnout, and a variety of other mental health-related consequences as a …

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Sounding the Alarm on Correctional Officer Mental Health

(6 days ago) WEBThe majority of officers we work with have shown us that the image of the corrupt CO in shows like ‘Orange is the New Black’ couldn't be further from the truth.”. If you or someone in your life is having thoughts of suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255.

https://www.suffolk.edu/news-features/news/2022/02/28/15/07/sounding-the-alarm-on-correctional-officer-mental-health

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Correctional Officers Face Mental Health Challenges : NPR

(2 days ago) WEBJENKINS: Kelly Raths is an administrator with the Oregon Department of Corrections, which has been studying correctional officer mental health since 2012. She says they encourage the department's

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/14/788056570/correctional-officers-face-mental-health-challenges

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Strategies for correctional leaders to prioritize officer mental …

(9 days ago) WEBLeaders must learn to support them in doing so and remove the barriers. Sustainable change and growth start at the top, in two important ways: 1. Build a mental wellness forward culture. Culture change begins with leaders. Work toward creating a safe place for COs to share their experience and feel safe asking for help.

https://www.corrections1.com/health-wellness/invisible-shackles-addressing-the-mental-wellness-crisis-among-correctional-officers

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Research on the mounting problem of correctional …

(4 days ago) WEBdevelopment of mental health prob-lems among correctional officers.2 Schwartz and his colleagues found that:3 1. Mental health problems were highly prevalent among cor-rectional officers. 2. There was a correlation be-tween greater critical incident exposure and increased mental health symptoms. Adobe Stock/Diyah

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Improving the Mental Health of Correctional Workers: …

(3 days ago) WEBIn relation to correctional officers, Lerman et al. (2021) found that “the more positively officers perceive supervision and management, as well as the quality and availability of stress management training, the less likely they are to report mental health issues” (p. 182). Thus, organizational structures that are perceived to reflect

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00938548221081468

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Utilizing Crisis Intervention Teams in Prison to Improve …

(2 days ago) WEBIndicators of mental health problems reported by prisoners and jail inmates, 2011-12. U.S. Department of Justice. Spiers E. M. (2004). On the role of correctional officers in prison mental health. Psychiatric Quarterly, 75(1), 41–59. Crossref. PubMed. Google Scholar. Epperson M., Pettus-Davis C. (2017). Smart decarceration: Achieving

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Working Behind the Wall: Mental Health of Correctional-Based Staff

(3 days ago) WEBRogers (2001) [2] surveyed correctional staff to learn about their stress levels, mental health, and risk behaviors. In terms of their mental health, Rogers found staggering rates of depression, feelings of hopelessness, and thoughts of suicide. Twenty-five percent of correctional officers reported feeling a lack of emotional responsiveness, 20

https://www.psychalive.org/working-behind-the-wall-mental-health-of-correctional-based-staff/

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Mental health training for correctional officers: a systematic review

(3 days ago) WEBImplementing mental health training could improve officer knowledge, skills, and attitudes toward inmates with mental illness. This could lead to improvements in risk management, humane treatment of inmates, and interprofessional collaboration with healthcare providers. There is limited research on the educational value of inmate …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8771599/

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Mental Health of Staff at Correctional Facilities in the United States

(3 days ago) WEBIntroduction. The United States (US) prison system, which holds almost 2.3 million prisoners (), and employs more than 500,000 correctional workers (includes correctional officers and health care workers) (), is chronically understaffed and under-resourced ().Added to these significant challenges is the impact of the COVID-19 …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8821525/

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People with Mental Health Conditions in Corrections

(5 days ago) WEBPeople with mental health issues increasingly receive care provided by correctional agencies. In 1959, nearly 559,000 patients were housed in state mental hospitals (Lamb, 1998). This is an excellent article explaining how the values and social structures of a U.S. prison affect a correctional officer's discretionary responses to situations

https://nicic.gov/resources/resources-topics-and-roles/topics/people-mental-health-conditions-corrections

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Correctional Officers and Compassion Fatigue Psychology Today

(Just Now) WEBOther signs of compassion fatigue distress often include increased irritability, procrastination, and a gradual deterioration of the correctional officer’s physical and mental well-being

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-crime-and-justice-doctor/202003/correctional-officers-and-compassion-fatigue

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Wellness for Corrections and Supervision Professionals

(2 days ago) WEBThe Mental Health of Community Correctional Officers: Supervising Persons with Serious Mental Illness Few studies have investigated factors that contribute to the mental health of probation and parole officers (PPOs). Issues surrounding stress in a correctional setting, like the effects, sources, and symptoms of stress, burnout, and

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The Challenges of Correctional Psychology Psychology Today

(Just Now) WEBOfficers with a desire to work in mental health units should be willing to address inmate behavior problems differently than the necessary measures needed to maintain safety and security in the

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/advocating-the-discarded/202211/the-challenges-correctional-psychology

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The Role of Correctional Officers in Multidisciplinary Mental Health

(7 days ago) WEBThe need for comprehensive mental health services in correctional facilities has never been greater. During the 1990s the population of inmates under the jurisdiction of federal and state prisons increased at an average annual rate of 6.5 percent, reaching 1,366,721 by the end of 1999 ().In mid-1998 the U.S. Department of Justice estimated …

https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.ps.52.10.1343

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Understanding Needs, Breaking Down Barriers: Examining Mental Health

(3 days ago) WEBSome respondents, like Participant 302, male, correctional officer, reported gaining recognition that they “may have some mental health or stress related issues related to work”. Participants reported repeated exposure to potentially psychologically traumatic events as impacting their own mental health and observing changes in other …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7365997/

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Correctional Officer Mental Health: A Call for Change - Lexipol

(Just Now) WEBThe same can be said for annual in-service training hours. As noted above, correctional officers are at risk for anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress and suicidal ideation — 10% of correctional officers have thought about killing themselves, but 73% haven’t told anyone, meaning that many are suffering in silence.

https://www.lexipol.com/resources/blog/correctional-officer-mental-health-call-for-change/

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Tackling Mental Health Challenges in the Public Safety Sector

(7 days ago) WEBBecause mental health issues among public safety workers is a growing concern, Research shows that corrections settings exacerbate physical and mental health disparities for corrections workers as well as incarcerated individuals.[3] These models include mental health resilience officers, Battle Buddies, and the evidence …

https://blogs.cdc.gov/niosh-science-blog/2024/05/09/mental-health-public-safety-sector/

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Documenting the mental health climate in correctional work and …

(3 days ago) WEBCorrectional workers must possess and apply significant knowledge around suicide prevention and risk factors to protect and help criminalized persons and many correctional workers are receptive to increase their knowledge of critical mental health issues (Penn et al., 2005), yet paradoxically, mental health stigma remains and …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9845727/

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Public Health Considerations for Correctional Health

(6 days ago) WEBCorrectional health is community health. CDC provides treatment guidelines and other correctional health resources. Correctional health encompasses all aspects of health and well-being for adults and juveniles who are justice system*-involved. This starts at the point of arrest, continues at detention or incarceration, and carries through after

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Correctional Officers and the Incarcerated Mentally Ill: Responses …

(9 days ago) WEBThese findings demonstrate that this prison's structures and values enable officers’ discretion with mentally ill inmates, rather than solely fostering custodial responses to these inmates’ behaviors. These officers’ responses to inmates with mental illness concurrently support custodial control and the prison's order" (p. 1).

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