Criminal Justice System

Dual Diagnosis in the criminal justice system training materials

A significant proportion of offenders have complex needs including substance use problems and mental health problems. Mental health and substance use treatment in the prisons and wider criminal justice system have undergone radical changes in the past few years, but these have occurred in parallel with little focus on offenders who need to navigate both services (i.e. people with dual diagnosis).

Offender Health at the Department of Health Skills for Health, NHS London and the Pan London Life-Long Learning Network have joined with University of Lincoln and Thames Valley University to initiate a higher education demonstration site project for dual diagnosis training for the criminal justice sector. The main purpose of this is to establish a national training programme (based on the original prison pilot) that will assist criminal justice agencies to manage effectively the needs of clients with both mental health and substance misuse problems.

The training has been mapped to National Occupational standards and for NHS employees, the Knowledge and Skills Framework. The specific learning outcomes directly link to the Dual Diagnosis Capability Framework (Hughes, 2006) levels 1 to 2.

The training materials available on this website have been used in the recent pilot in London. This course aims to develop the necessary values that people require to work with dual diagnosis and to equip professionals (mental health, substance use, criminal justice) with the requisite knowledge, skills and confidence to intervene effectively with service users who have co-existing mental health and substance misuse problems.

To view the course materials and additional reading please see below in picture gallery.

Icon	File Name	Date Issued	Size	DownloadY
	Alcohol and drugs.doc	Apr 27 2009	61.0 KB
	Alcohol and Drugs
	Day 2 models.ppt	Apr 24 2009	259.0 KB
	Day 2
	day 3.ppt	Apr 24 2009	65.5 KB
	Day 3
	Day 4 models.ppt	Apr 24 2009	236.0 KB
	Day 4
	day 5.ppt	Apr 24 2009	296.0 KB
	Day 5
	mental health and mental disorder.doc	Apr 27 2009	45.0 KB
	Mental health and Mental disorder
	Mental health perspectives.ppt	Apr 24 2009	141.0 KB
	Mental Health Perspectives
	Physical Health Risks and Dual Diagnosis.doc	Apr 27 2009	41.0 KB
	Physical health risks and Dual Diagnosis
	Posttraining Q.doc	May 22 2009	50.0 KB
	Post Training Questionnaire
	Questionnaire to be completed by participants of the 5 day pilot training course delivered in March 2009. If you were a participant on this course please complete and send to elizabeth.hughes@coventry.ac.uk
	Prevalence.doc	Apr 27 2009	25.0 KB
	Prevalence
	prisonDDintro.ppt	Apr 24 2009	543.5 KB
	Prison DD Intro
	Risk and Dual Diagnosis.doc	Apr 27 2009	30.5 KB
	Risk and Dual Diagnosis
Criminal Justice System 153.6Kb	SM clients with MH pproblems in CJS.pdf	Apr 27 2009	153.6 KB
	Substance Misusing clients Mental Health problems: A brief practitioner's guide for Criminal Justice Integrated Teams
	This guide has been designed specifically for staff in Criminal Justice Integrated Teams (CJITs) but it may also be useful to other service providers. Staff in these services see many clients who have both substance misuse and mental health problems (also known as comorbidity or dual diagnosis). While it is not the core role of CJITs to manage or treat the mental health element of a clients co-occurring mental health problems, it is important to be able to recognise and refer clients with these problems to appropriate care and with the appropriate degree of urgency.
	Women and Dual Diagnosis.doc	Apr 27 2009	33.0 KB
	Women and Dual Diagnosis