Mental health awareness in prison

Corrections
Learning Academy
BEST PRACTICE
2021
NABIBB GERMANY
Mental Health Awareness in prison
Raising awareness on the inmates’ mental health in correctional facilities
Self-paced
Prison Health

Mental health awareness
in prison
this course
Self-paced
This course aims to raise awareness on the inmates’ mental health in correctional facilities, offering
participants the opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills in the area of mental health, specifically:
defining health/mental illness and concepts of mental health, understanding the factors that influence
mental health, and being aware of the difficulties associated with mental disease labels.
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5h for 1 week
By acquiring and developing these skills, prison professionals will be better equipped to detect and
offer practical support for inmates that suffer from mental health disorders during their imprisonment
and after release, so better outcomes are verified for those within the Criminal Justice system, including
reducing reoffending.
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e-Learning and self-study
Who should attend?
• Prison staff
Pre-requisites
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• Probation services
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Total: 5h
3h e-Learning
2h self-study
• Civil society organisations
• Volunteers who work with ex-inmates
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Certificate of Completion
About
The content of this course has been developed and piloted in Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Portugal and Romania, under the AWARE - Cross-sectoral
Awareness Building on Mental Health Needs in the Criminal Justice System project, co-funded by the European Commission under the ERASMUS +
programme.
The course content is free to access (except any modules with access restricted due to certification requirements). The price associated with this
course refers to expert tutoring and learning management system fees.

Welcome to your online campus
Corrections Learning Academy is an online training platform with real-time and self-paced programmes developed by Corrections experts.
Here you can acquire relevant knowledge and develop new skills anytime, anywhere at your own pace.
Our platform is powered by a sophisticated learning management system and complemented by our online store so you can securely
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Technical requirements
Basic requirements
To complete a programme, you’ll need a current email account and access to
a computer and the internet, as well as a PDF Reader. You may need to view
Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and read and create documents in Microsoft
Word or Excel.
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Contents
Mental health awareness in prison
Definition of mentalll health/illness
• Are you AWARE?
• Common mental health problems in prison
Understanding the factors that influence mental health
• The impact of imprisonment on mental health
• Risk of suicide and self-harm
• Focus group study
Awareness of the difficulties associated with mental
health illness labelling
• The problem of labelling
• The importance of education

After completing the
course, trainees will
receive a Certificate as
proof of their learning
activities at the online
Corrections Learning
Academy.

Academy board
Pedro das Neves
Chief Executive Officer @IPS
CEO of IPS Innovative Prison Systems and ICJS
Innovative Criminal Justice Systems Inc., Board
Director of ICPA, the International Prisons and
Corrections Association, and the BSAFE Law
Enforcement - Justice and Public Safety Lab. Pedro
holds a Sociology degree and an M.A. and other
learning experiences in universities worldwide.
He worked on criminal justice reform for 20
years and has been involved in designing and
implementing innovative projects awarded as
best practices. He is the founder/editor of JUSTICE
TRENDS magazine and was recognised with the
ICPA Correctional Excellence Award (Management
& Staff Training). Pedro das Neves is a lecturer
on the UNED (Spain) post-graduate programme
“Master on Penitentiary Management, Intervention
and Administration” and an appointed member
of the European Commission (‘DG JUST’) group of
experts on European Judicial Training.
Ana Maria Evans
Chief Innovation Officer @IPS
Ana Maria Evans is Chief Innovation Officer at IPS
Innovative Prison Systems and an Invited Professor
in the “Philosophy, Politics and Economics”
(PPE) programme of the Portuguese Catholic
University. Ana holds a Law degree (Catholic
University, Lisbon), a M.A. in International Relations
(University of San Diego), and a PhD in Government
(Georgetown University). Ana taught and developed
research in the U.S and Portuguese universities,
published scientific articles in international
journals and books, delivered work in international
conferences, served as a committee member to
international meetings, won and coordinated an
FCT Starting Grant for research on “Governance
Models and the Delivery of Public Services”. Ana
has been the recipient of international fellowships/
grants and has served on the board of civil society
organizations, including the Fulbright Alumni
Association - Portugal.
Ioan Durnescu
Professor @University of Bucharest
Prof. Dr. Ioan Durnescu is a Professor at the
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology
and Social Work. He teaches and researches in
the field of Corrections, with a special interest
in working methodologies and comparative
probation. He is one of the editors of the Probation
in Europe (WOLF) and the Understanding Penal
Practice (Routledge) and the co-editor of the
European Journal of Probation, published by the
University of Bucharest in partnership with SAGE
Publishing. Dr. Ioan is an honorary member of
the Confederation of European Probation (CEP),
Vice-President of the Collegium of Social Workers
of Romania and a former chair of the Community
Sanctions and Measures Working group within
the European Society of Criminology. He is the
author of the book “Core Correctional Skills”, a
result of many years of teaching and training
prison and probation staff worldwide.

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