What roles do psychologists generally play in jails and prisons? (Adult Corrections)
What will be an ideal response?
Answers may vary.The Role of Psychologists in JailsThere is a much higher rate of severe mental illness in jail than in the general population. Given these numbers, we might expect that many of the psychological services provided to jail inmates would focus on those with mental disorders. Such services, described in a national survey of U.S. jails, include• Screening, evaluation, classification• Diversion (helping to determine whether a pretrial inmate might meet criteria for a community-based program such as drug court or mental health court)• Suicide prevention• Crisis intervention• Case management services/reentry (liaison with community treatment providers, planning for release, assistance with housing and transportation)• Coordinating volunteers (teaching, mentoring, tutoring, guiding release)• Teaching life skills• Group therapy for inmates and their familiesLarger jails with more resources might be able to offer most or all of these services, so a psychologist's role in such jails would be more varied. Smaller jails, by contrast, might be limited to screening, suicide prevention, and crisis intervention.
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a. self-monitoring therapy. b. constructive coping therapy. c. rational-emotive therapy. d. behavioral therapy.
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a. social loafing b. social interference c. normative social influence d. the bystander effect
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a. Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi b. Howard Gardner c. Malcolm Gladwell d. Nalini Ambady