LibGuides: MSW-6105: Week 5 Resources

Lesson 5 Required Resources

Textbook

Forensic Social Work: Psychosocial and Legal Issues Across Diverse Populations and Settings
Tina Maschi, T., & Leibowitz, G. S.(2017). Forensic social work: Psychosocial and legal issues across diverse populations and settings (2nd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.

Read Chapter 13: Substance Use and Co-Occurring Psychiatric Disorder Treatment: Systems and Issues for Those in Jail, Prison, and on Parole.
- The chapter demonstrates how mental health and substance use interact with criminal justice involvement and examine assessment and interventions strategies for comorbid mental health and substance abuse in the forensic population and settings.

Articles

Behavioral Health Interventions for Incarcerated Adults with Histories of Trauma: A Scoping Review
Grady, M. D., Tripodi, S., Herod, L., & Rudzinski, M. (2024). Behavioral health interventions for incarcerated adults with histories of trauma: A scoping review. Research on Social Work Practice, 34(4), 415–432.
The article examines the existing state of the literature through a scoping review on correctional-based programs that address both trauma and behavioral health.
Mental Health Needs, Substance Use, and Reincarceration: Population-Level Findings from a Released Prison Cohort
Butler, A., Nicholls, T. L., Samji, H., Fabian, S., & Lavergne, M. R. (2024). Mental health needs, substance use, and reincarceration: Population-level findings from a released prison cohort. Criminal Justice & Behavior, 51(7), 1054–1071.
This article examines the role of mental health, substance use, and comorbidity in relation to time to reincarceration. This study examined the relationship between four diagnostic groups (mental health needs alone, substance use disorders alone, co-occurring disorders, and no disorders) and time to reincarceration over a 3-year follow-up period.
Motivational Interviewing-Based Interventions with Patients with Comorbid Anxiety and Substance Use Disorders
Buckner, J. D. (2024). Motivational interviewing-based interventions with patients with comorbid anxiety and substance use disorders. Current Opinion in Psychology, 60, 101934.
This paper reviews the recent literature on treatments developed specifically for these high-risk patients that include motivational interviewing (MI) techniques to increase motivation for behavioral change.
Treating Substance Abuse and Trauma Symptoms in Incarcerated Women: An Effectiveness Study
Swopes, R. M., Davis, J. L., & Scholl, J. A. (2017). Treating substance abuse and trauma symptoms in incarcerated women: An effectiveness study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 32(7), 1143–1165.
The present study evaluated an integrated treatment program, Helping Women Recover/Beyond Trauma (HWR/BT), supplemented with additional modules on domestic violence, relapse prevention, and a 12-step program. The HWR/BT combined treatment program was compared with a matched comparison sample that did not receive the target treatment. Self-report measures were collected from 95 incarcerated women, with 56 women in the completer sample. Women in the treatment condition attended a 4-month group treatment. Results indicated statistically significant between-group differences, favoring the treatment condition, for negative posttraumatic cognitions.

Video

Motivational Interviewing in Juvenile Justice Settings
PsychotherapyNet. (2019, February 13). Motivational interviewing in juvenile justice settings [Video]. YouTube.
Without a strong alliance and clear boundaries, mandated clients will often shut down or act out—especially if they are teenagers. How do you work to meet both institutional and clinical goals? MI expert Ali Hall demonstrates how to use this collaborative approach in juvenile justice settings.

Website

Smart Recovery
Smart Recovery. (n.d.). Smart Recovery.
SMART Recovery supports people in the United States, Canada, and all over the world to manage addictive and problematic behaviors. SMART Recovery is an evidenced-informed recovery method grounded in Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), that supports people with substance dependencies or problem behaviors.