NCT06359574

Core Competency Model for Corrections

Development and Implementation of a Self-Directed Violence (SDV) Prevention Training Program for the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Charlotte · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The overall goal of this project is to design, implement, and revise the Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C), an evidence-based Self-Directed Violence (SDV) prevention training program for correctional mental health providers in the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections (DAC). The proposed specific aims are: Aim 1: To create the CCM-C training program. Aim 2: To assess preliminary training effectiveness. Aim 3: To gather training program quality improvement feedback from corrections stakeholders.

Detailed description

Investigators will conduct a pilot feasibility and preliminary effectiveness evaluation of the Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C; Cramer et al., 2022). This training approach involves psycho-educational content, self-assessment tools, interactive exercises to address 10 clinical care and practitioner-focused skill sets for suicide and self-injury risk assessment and management. The protocol employs a waitlist control sequential cross-over design and mixed-method evaluation approach targeting 50-100 NC correctional behavioral health clinicians (BHCs). Through an ongoing academic-community partnership, investigators will employ a Corrections Advisory Panel (CAP) to provide expert review of training. The CAP will comprise six NC-DAC BHCs and 4-6 external BHCs with experience in correctional behavioral health. Two training groups will each provide three assessments via an online self-report evaluation battery gathering information regarding participant demographics; SDV prevention knowledge, attitudes, and perceived skills; incarceration-related attitudes; and perceived importance of and intention to use SDV prevention practices.

Conditions

• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Core Competency Model for Corrections (CCM-C) Self-Directed Violence Prevention Training	The Core Competency Model (CCM; Cramer et al., 2013, 2019) is an evidence-based educational training program for BHCs in suicide prevention core suicide prevention skills. The ten core competencies are: (1) Manage personal attitudes and reactions to suicide; (2) Maintain a collaborative stance toward the client; (3) Elicit evidence-based risk and protective factors; (4) Focus on current suicide plan and intent of suicidal ideation; (5) Determine risk level; (6) Enact a collaborative evidence-based treatment plan; (7) Notify and involve other persons; (8) Document risk, plan, and reasoning for clinical decisions; (9) Know the law concerning suicide, and; (10) Engage in debriefing and self-care. The CCM will be adapted for this pilot trial. In light of the SDV problem in carceral settings, the CCM for Corrections (CCM-C; Cramer, Kaniuka, \& Peiper, 2022) was adapted to address both suicide and self-injury assessment, treatment, and prevention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-05
• Primary completion: 2024-12-31
• Completion: 2025-01-30
• First posted: 2024-04-11
• Last updated: 2024-12-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States