Desert Waters: Mental Health for Corrections Officers

In this episode of Roll Call, Kenzie Koch interviews Caterina Spinaris, Ph.D., LPC, about how Desert Waters Correctional Outreach helps correctional officers and their families. It became evident to Caterina that staff health and functioning could be harmed due to: repeated exposure to work-related incidents of violence, injury and death; mistrust of and conflict with other employees; a culture of “toughness;” understaffing; and a negative public image.
It also appeared that, on the whole, neither staff nor their adult family members received coping-skills and other wellness training to handle the impact of traumatic and other high-stress work conditions on their professional and personal lives. DWCO staff felt called to respond to this glaring need, and began to develop and offer trauma-specific wellness trainings and other resources for staff and families, and to conduct research in correctional agency wellness. Thankfully, these efforts continue to expand today both nationally and internationally.
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