COD services in community correctional settings: An examination of organizational factors that affect service delivery

Abstract

Little is known about service delivery for those in the correctional system with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders (COD). Using data from the National Criminal Justice Treatment Practices survey (NCJTP) on community corrections and jail agencies, this study found that correctional organizations that offer COD services differ from agencies that do not. Organizations that respond to the needs of COD offenders tend to be more "service friendly," rank higher on measures of various dimensions of organizational climate that embrace learning and goal achievement, and tend to adopt more innovations, particularly those classified as evidence-based practices. These survey findings indicate that correctional agencies who serve COD offenders are in a better position to be responsive to the changing service needs of the populations, and are more likely to be able to balance public safety and treatment goals. Future steps to develop support environments for COD assessment and treatment services are discussed in light of these findings.

Study protocol: Hybrid Type I cost-effectiveness and implementation study of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for men and women prisoners with major depression

“…The SAS will also assess issues related to sustainability including whether or not respondents would continue to use IPT outside of research, how easily IPT integrates into their other clinical care, and their perception of the time versus benefit trade-off for getting trained to deliver IPT. We will also assess prison provider attitudes toward evidence-based practice using: (a) the revised Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS-50), which has good reliability and factorial validity 86 ; (b) prison provider attitudes toward rehabilitation and punishment using an established measure adapted by Taxman from Cullen 87–89 ; and (c) provider competencies using the reliable and valid Competency Assessment Inventory (CAI) 90 . The CAI evaluates the attitudes, knowledge, and skills needed to provide high-quality mental health care (e.g., learns and respects clients’ preferences about treatment, creates opportunities for clients to practice skills).…”

Assessing the Social Climate of Prisons

“…The words "culture" and "climate" have, for example, often been used interchangeably (Lok & Crawford 2003;Parker et al 2003) despite subtle differences in meaning: Culture, for example, is most frequently understood as the overall philosophy and condition of an organisation or a collection of shared beliefs among organisational members which plays a central role in shaping organisational members' attitudes, perceptions, motivation, goals and behaviour (see Melnick et al 2009), whereas climate often refers to the perceptions of the organisation at an operational level, such as its ability to be supportive of new ideas and openness for change (see Taxman et al 2008). Other concepts have also been proposed.…”

Attitudes Toward Addiction, Methadone Treatment, and Recovery Among HIV-Infected Ukrainian Prisoners Who Inject Drugs: Incarceration Effects and Exploration of Mediators

“…Research shows that such factors as lack of knowledge, misinformation about, and negative attitudes toward OAT limits its uptake and expansion even in the US, where opioid-dependence has been treated with methadone for over 45 years (31–34). Our study is the first to investigate and compare attitudes toward OAT and its correlates among currently and previously incarcerated opioid-addicted PLWHAs in Ukraine, a 25-year old country where OAT was first introduced in 2004 as a pilot program (35).…”