Unique Skills Needed to Work with in Correctional Settings
| Establishing a working relationship with correctional officers who have no medical training |
| Understanding custody levels |
| Managing boundaries |
| Balancing patient confidentiality with the facility's security needs |
| Providing quality psychiatric care with formulary restrictions |
| Understanding prison culture |
| Dealing with medication diversion, including medications uniquely abused in correctional settings |
| Advocating for patient needs in a system that is inherently not designed as a therapeutic milieu |
From Refs. 26, 39.