Law and Mental Health: Expanding the role of Nonclinical Staff: A Case Example of Implementing

Law and Mental Health: Expanding the role of Nonclinical Staff: A Case Example of Implementing a Brief Intervention for Suicidality in the Juvenile Legal System - Kathleen Kemp, Ph.D., Kaitlin Sheerin, Ph.D. Kathleen Kemp, PhD, is an Associate Professor (Research) at Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School and a Staff Psychologist at RI Hospital Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Bradley/Hasbro Children's Research Center. She is also the Director of the RI Family Court Mental Health Clinic. She earned her graduate degree in clinical psychology with a specialization in forensic psychology at Drexel University and completed her predoctoral internship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School/Worcester State Hospital. Dr. Kemp completed her forensic psychology fellowship at the University of Virginia's Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy and Western State Hospital. She specializes in forensic mental health evaluations with adolescents in the juvenile legal system. Her clinical research focuses on suicide prevention and substance use intervention as well as the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based treatment with youth involved in the legal system. She has been the Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator, or Site Principal Investigator on several university and NIH-funded grants. Her current grant focuses on training community-based clinicians who serve youth involved in the legal system in suicide intervention. Kaitlin Sheerin, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor on the Research Scholars Track at the Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School and a Research Scientist with the Rhode Island Hospital Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her clinical research focuses on (a) developing, adapting, and evaluating behavioral health intervention and assessment approaches for youth involved in the juvenile legal system and (b) promoting equitable access to quality behavioral healthcare for these system-involved youth. 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. 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.