Criminal Justice Staff’s Professional Quality of Life and Interactions with Justice-Involved Individuals: The Moderating Role of Stigma
Criminal Justice Staff’s Professional Quality of Life and Interactions with Justice-Involved Individuals: The Moderating Role of Stigma
Shania L. Siebert Mandy D. Owens Johanna B. Folk Kelly E. Moore a East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USAb University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USAc University of California, San Francisco, CA, USAShania L. Siebert, M.S. is a graduate student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at East Tennessee State University. Her research interests include examining the impact of substance use, trauma, and stigma on individuals involved with and employed by the criminal justice system by exploring these factors’ and how to mitigate their negative influences to increase people with criminal records’ personal wellbeing and staffs’ occupational wellbeing.Mandy D. Owens, PhD is an Assistant Professor with the Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute under the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Her work aims to improve services for people who use alcohol and drugs with a focus on those involved with the criminal legal system. Dr. Owens works with jails and prisons to implement medications for opioid use disorder programs, develops training for law enforcement and other first responders, and uses policy codesign to improve local law enforcement responses to drug use. She also leads and partners on other projects, including a needs assessment of Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) for loved ones of patients on medications for opioid use disorder, multi-site replication study of low barrier community-based buprenorphine, a pilot study using policy codesign to develop adolescent behavioral health systems, and training for SAMHSA-funded State Opioid Response sites. Dr. Owens is an attending psychologist at the University of Washington Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. She specializes in the treatment of substance use disorders and supports family members of individuals with substance use concerns using a CRAFT approach.Johanna B. Folk is an Assistant Professor, Attending Psychologist, and Director of Research, Evaluation and Analysis in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Dr. Folk’s research and clinical work focus on addressing the behavioral health needs of youth and families impacted by the legal system. She uses community engaged and longitudinal research methods to understand the effects of trauma and legal system contact on adolescent trajectories, as well as leveraging technology to develop and test novel interventions.Kelly E. Moore, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at East Tennessee State University. Dr. Moore received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from George Mason University in 2016 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in substance use prevention research at Yale School of Medicine before beginning her position at ETSU. Her research interests include understanding and reducing factors that contribute to criminal justice system involvement and poor adjustment after release from incarceration, as well as the adaptation of evidence-based treatments for justice-involved populations. Dr. Moore has focused much of her work on understanding the psychological and behavioral consequences of stigma associated with criminal involvement and substance use disorder. Her recent work has centered around stigma reduction interventions for justice-involved people and criminal justice staff.