Vinneth Carvalho MD, Assistant Chief of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut-Correctional Managed Health Care, and Amy B. Smoyer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT join Lorry to discuss the importance of food for physical and psychosocial health. They presented a session on “Why Food Matters: Physical and Psychosocial Health of…
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Richard Craig, PhD, CCHP, served as the Chief Psychologist for the Idaho Department of Correction until his recent retirement. He has over 20 years of correctional experience. Dr. Craig spoke about Conducting a Psychological Autopsy at the 2016 National Conference on Correctional Health Care. Although used in forensic practice for over 60 years, psychological autopsies still lack a standardized definition or process…
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Johnnie Lambert, Sue Smith, and Kim Pearson join Lorry to talk about the latest correctional health care news. State settles with inmate seeking sex change operation The state of Nebraska agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by an inmate who claimed that the state prison’s medical director refused to provide hormone therapy for a gender identity disorder….
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