Alanna Richards

Mental Health Clinician @Centurion Health

Kuna, ID, US

Support residents in identifying goals while incarcerated and for when they release into the community.• Assess high-risk individuals for suicidal and homicidal ideation and behaviors.• Identify individuals who should be placed on suicide watch and, once on watch, support residents to complete safety plans and utilize emotional regulation and distress tolerance coping skills.• Collaborate with security and medical staff to provide holistic care for residents.• Assess residents’ needs by conducting a biopsychosocial.• Provide individual counseling and support for a caseload of residents every 60 days or sooner based on individual needs.• Provide and explore relevant coping skills for inmates for a variety of mental health symptoms (i.e. anxiety, depression, auditory and visual hallucinations).• Implement evidence-based practice such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and motivational interviewing.• Facilitates a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Grief and Loss classes for groups of residents up to 10.• Structure and prepare for individual and group sessions with appropriate homework.• Document content of individual and group sessions using SOAP notes.

Westmont College

Communication Studies and Philosophy

California State University San Marcos

Master of Social Work - MSW