Law and Mental Health - Law and Mental Health: Why it Works: The Sequential Intercept Model’s Active Ingredients

Law and Mental Health: Why it Works: The Sequential Intercept Model’s Active Ingredients -Jaymes Fairfax-Columbo, PhD, JD Jaymes Fairfax-Columbo, JD, PhD is a clinical-forensic psychologist in private practice. He conducts forensic behavioral health evaluations with adults and adolescents regarding a host of referral questions, including: competency to proceed, mental state at the time of the offense, mitigation development, Miranda Rights waiver, reverse amenability, psychosexual risk assessments, general and violent recidivism risk assessments, and post-conviction relief. Prior to entering full-time private practice, Jaymes was the Associate Director of Policy and Planning for the Behavioral Health and Justice Division of the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services. There, he supported planning, implementation, and quality assurance of City of Philadelphia initiatives designed to serve individuals with behavioral health needs who became involved in the criminal justice system. He also previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. There, he was also the Training Director for the Postdoctoral Fellowship in Forensic Psychology. Additionally, he is a Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University, as well as is an Adjunct Professor at Florida Institute of Technology. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, books, magazine articles, newsletter articles, and policy papers on various forensic behavioral health topics. Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the predominant model for addressing the over-representation of behavioral health challenges in the criminal justice system, the Sequential Intercept Model (SIM). 2. Critique the effectiveness of the SIM in promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and in reducing jail bookings and connections to treatment for individuals with behavioral health challenges. 3. Assess the key “active ingredients” that promote culture change and make the SIM effective: therapeutic jurisprudence, the continuum of prevention, procedural justice, risk-need-responsivity, restorative justice, and addressing Social Determinants of Health/Mental Health. Please note: CEUs, CEs, and CMEs, as well as Certificates of Completion are not available from viewing recordings. In order to be eligible for credit, trainings and presentations must be attended live. Views expressed during this training or presentation do not reflect those of the University of New Mexico. Copyright Notice All Rights Reserved. All material appearing on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube (“content”) is protected by copyright under U.S. Copyright laws and is the property the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences or the party credited as the provider of the content. You may not copy, reproduce, distribute, publish, display, perform, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any such content, nor may you distribute any part of this content over any network, including a local area network, sell or offer it for sale, or use such content to construct any kind of database. You may not alter or remove any copyright or other notice from copies of the content on the University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube. Copying or storing any content except as provided above is expressly prohibited without prior written permission of the University or the copyright holder identified in the individual content’s copyright notice. For permission to use the content on the University’s website, please contact [email protected]. Disclaimer The content contained in University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences YouTube is provided only for educational and informational purposes or as required by U.S. or N.M. law. The University attempts to ensure that content is accurate and obtained from reliable sources, but does not represent it to be error-free. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences may add, amend or repeal any policy, procedure or regulation, and failure to timely post such changes to its website shall not be construed as a waiver of enforcement. University of New Mexico Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences does not warrant that any functions on its website will be uninterrupted, that defects will be corrected, or that the website will be free from viruses or other harmful components. Any links to third party information on the University’s YouTube are provided as a courtesy and do not constitute an endorsement of those materials or the third party providing them.