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With the significant expansion of early intervention programs for psychosis in the United States has come a demand for a workforce to deliver Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC), particularly in the context of broader workforce challenges in behavioral health. This session will describe core competencies for CSC identified through key informant interviews with early psychosis leaders from around the country. Recruitment, selection, orientation, training, professional development, and retention strategies; and supervision recommendations will be presented.
While many CSC Programs have staff with extensive knowledge of psychosis and experienced in managing risk of violence, they may be less experienced in interacting with the criminal justice system and unfamiliar with the sequential intercept model. Individuals in the early stages of psychosis are at heightened risk of violence and disproportionately likely to experience criminal justice involvement compared to their peers. It is crucial that CSC workforce are aware of opportunities to intervene at the intersection of the mental health and criminal justice systems. Developing these competencies can help reduce the risk of further violence or criminal justice entanglement and thereby optimize long-term outcomes for those in the early stages of psychosis. Transition age youth of color are also disproportionately over-represented in the criminal justice system, representing one third of the youth population in the US but two thirds of incarcerated youth. Workforce of CSC programs will need to be acutely aware of the potential for criminal justice involvement among the individuals they serve with the added layer of racial and ethnic disparities for clients of color and be adept at navigating and advocating within these systems.
This session will review the evidence for heightened risk of criminal justice involvement, racial and ethnic disparities among justice involved youth, and recommendations for intervening effectively.
Format
Recorded webinar, non-interactive, self-paced distance learning activity with post-test.
This presentation was recorded on November 12, 2020 at the virtual conference, Third National Conference on Advancing Early Psychosis Care in the United States: Addressing Inequities - Race, Culture, and COVID.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the competencies for Coordinated Specialty Care workforce and recruitment, professional development, and retention strategies.
- Identify opportunities for intervention within the criminal justice system.
- Summarize the evidence regarding disproportionate justice involvement among youth people with psychosis, including racial and ethnic disparities.
Outline
- Workforce development considerations in Coordinated Specialty Care(CSC).
- Core competencies in CSC.
- Knowledge and skills related to criminal justice involvement.
- Intersection with race and ethnicity.
Target Audience
Psychologists, Social Workers, and Other Mental Health Professionals
Instructional Level
Introductory, Intermediate
Estimated Time to Complete
Estimated Duration: 1.0 hours
Program Start Date: July 30, 2025
Program End Date: July 30, 2028
Ongoing Interdisciplinary Discussion Board
After completing the course, engage with colleagues in the mental health field through the Webinar Roundtable Topics discussion board. This is an easy way to network and share ideas with other clinicians who participate in this webinar. Access through the discussion tab.
How to Earn Credit
Participants who wish to earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, CE credit for psychologists, CE credit for social workers, or a certificate of participation may do so by completing all sections of the course, including viewing the full video (≥60 minutes) and submitting an evaluation. A multiple-choice quiz is provided based on the content. A passing score of 75% must be achieved. After evaluating the program, course participants will be provided with an opportunity to claim hours of participation and print an official CME certificate (physicians), CE certificate (psychologists), CE certificate (social workers), or certificate of participation (other disciplines) showing the completion date and hours/credits earned.
Continuing Education Credit
Physicians
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The APA designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Psychologists
The American Psychiatric Association is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. American Psychiatric Association maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Social Workers
American Psychiatric Association, provider #1743, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. American Psychiatric Association maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 05/18/2020 – 05/18/2021 and 05/18/2021-05/18/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 (clinical) continuing education credits.
Faculty and Planner Disclosures
Instructors
- Jessica Monahan Pollard, Ph.D., is Director of the Office of Behavioral Health, Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Previously, Dr. Pollard was Assistant Professor and Director of Early Psychosis Programs at Yale University School of Medicine. She is Chair of the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Pollard earned her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Connecticut. She has founded multiple early psychosis programs; and developed resources on workforce development for the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
Program Planners
- Steven Adelsheim, M.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Catherine Adams, L.M.S.W., A.C.S.W., C.A.A.D.C. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Susan T. Azrin, Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Iruma Bello, Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Gary Michael Blau, M.S., Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Teri S. Brister, Ph.D., L.P.C. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Nybelle An-Vi Caruso, B.S. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Amy N. Cohen, Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Robert O. Cotes, M.D. Dr. Cotes discloses the following relationships: Consultant: Saladax Biomedical, American Psychiatric Association Grant/Research: Ostuka, Lundbeck, Roche, Alkermes
- Judith Dauberman, M.A., Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Steven P. Dettwyler, Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Lisa B. Dixon, M.D., M.P.H. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Melissa Edmondson Smith, Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Chantel Garrett. Ms. Garrett discloses the following relationships: Stock: Invitae, stockholder Livongo, stockholder Color, private equity holder Consultant: Maine Health Northwell Health One Mind Grant/Research: One Mind National Institute of Health
- Tristan Gorrindo, M.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Kate Hardy, ClinPsych.D. Ms. Hardy discloses the following relationships: Consultant: SME for Click Therapeutics
- Robert K. Heinssen, Ph.D., A.B.P.P. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Brian Hepburn, M.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Patrick Kaufmann, B.S. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Sherin Khan, L.C.S.W. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Steven R. Lopez, Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Ted Lutterman. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Tushita Mayanil, M.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Ryan Melton, Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Oladunni Oluwoye , Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- Abram Rosenblatt, Ph.D. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests.
- David L. Shern, Ph.D. Dr. Shern discloses the following relationships: Grant/Research: Through my employment at NASMHPD, I co-chair the dissemination function of the Early Psychosis Intervention network as part of the national data coordinating center at Westat. Westat was awarded the coordinating center grant by NIMH Other: serve on the Board of Livanta
Reviewers
- Teri Brister, PhD, LPC, National Alliance on Mental Illness. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests. (Reviewed on 4/23/2024)
- John Torous, MD, MBI, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests. (Reviewed on 4/23/2024
- Amy N. Cohen, Ph.D, American Psychiatric Association. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests. (Reviewed on 4/23/2024)
- Sherin Khan, LCSW, Thresholds. Reports no financial relationships with commercial interests. (Reviewed on 4/23/2024)
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