pThis 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. Evidence-based 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. pp ppIncluded in the coverage pp- Assessing and treating offenders with mental illness. pp- Substance use disorders in correctional populations.pp- Assessing and treating offenders with intellectual disabili