This highly accessible volume tours the competencies and challenges relating to contemporary mental health service delivery in correctional settings. Balancing the general and specific knowledge needed for conducting effective therapy in jails and prisons leading experts present eclectic theoretical models current statistics diagnostic information and frontline wisdom. Evidencebased practices are detailed for mental health assessment treatment and management of inmates including specialized populations women youth and offenders with specific pathologies sexual offenders psychopaths. And readers are reminded that correctional psychology is in an evolutionary state adapting to the diverse needs of populations and practitioners in the context of reducing further offending. ampnbspIncluded in the coverageampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbsp Assessing and treating offenders with mental illness.ampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbsp ampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbsp Substance use disorders in correctional populations.ampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbsp Assessing and treating offenders with intellectual disabilities.ampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbsp Assessing and treating those who have committed sexual offenses.ampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbsp Selfharmsuicidality in corrections.ampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbspampnbsp Correctional staff The issue of job stress.ampnbsp The Practice of Correctional Psychology will be of major interest to psychologists social workers and masters level clinicians and students who work in correctional institutions and settings with offenders on parole or probation as well as other professionals within the correctional system who work directly with offenders such as probation officers parole officers program officers and corrections officers.