This research investigates how individuals who reenter society from prison use coping strategies. Participants are incarcerated individuals who recidivated following a previous release from prison (n = 20). Participants examine their most recent reentry experience via an interview. The research question under investigation is, "What themes describe how individuals cope with reentry from prison to society?" Data and results combine qualitative and quantitative analysis methods. The predominant coping strategy for dealing with reentry barriers is avoidance. There is a defined process experienced by participants, which is initial optimism about release, followed by craving substances, facing practical barriers, and/or feeling overwhelmed. This eventually results in avoidance of managing problems and emotions and substance abuse relapse, which culminates in recidivism.
The COVID-19 pandemic produced a rapid and pervasive shift to provision of telepsychology services throughout health service psychology. Simultaneously, an equally rapid and pervasive shift to telesupervision of trainees has occurred, at all levels of graduate professional training. These shifts have clearly outpaced a much more gradual increase in training in telesupervision as part of the supervision competency. The authors provide an overview of the somewhat limited research on telesupervision, and propose rapid adoption of training in telesupervision for both trainees and supervisors. Several areas of research into telesupervision are proposed, including comparative efficacy and acceptance of telesupervision, the potential impact of information technology expertise on supervisory relationships, and potential differential impact of diversity factors in telesupervision as compared to in-person supervision.
This study expanded on past research on perception of individuals by comparing people who are described as using substances with people who are described as smoking and people who are described as obese. This research was a 2 (active difficulty vs. remission) by 3 (substance use, smoking, obesity) factorial design. There were a total of N = 161 adult participants who read a fictitious scenario about an individual who was either actively facing one of the aforementioned problems or in remission. Participants then answered questions that measured reported desired social distance from the individual in the scenario. As hypothesized, people who were actively using substances were the most highly stigmatized group, receiving a high level of reported intention to be socially distant from the individual. Implications of these findings for treatment of individuals who are using substances and training of treatment professionals are addressed.
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