2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
7/19/2018 | 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Empathic Justice: Understanding the Impact of Trauma History and Mental Condition on Court Participant Behavior | Summit A
Empathic Justice: Understanding the Impact of Trauma History and Mental Condition on Court Participant Behavior
This presentation will describe potential manifestations and impacts of trauma history and chronic mental illness on participants in a mental health court process. Participants will gain a foundational understanding of trauma-informed care, and how this paradigm is changing the approach to both legal and clinical intervention.
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C.J. Sorenson
(), College of Humanities and Social Sciences: Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology Department, carl.sorenson@usu.edu;
C.J. Sorenson is an Associate Clinical Professor of Social Work at Utah State University. He grew up in Salt Lake City and earned a BSW degree at the University of Utah. He earned an MSW degree from BYU. Following graduate school he worked in a private mental health clinic where he conducted individual, couple, family, and group psychotherapy in both outpatient and inpatient settings, as well as crisis work in a hospital emergency room. C.J. joined the social work faculty at USU in 2012. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on mental health, psychopharmacology, and social work practice. He is also the coordinator of the undergraduate social work program across USU’s Regional Campus system. He has served on a number of boards of directors for non-profit social service agencies in Grand and Box Elder Counties in Utah. He currently serves as a committee member on the International Mental Health Court Summit Planning Committee, as club advisor to NAMI on campus at USU, and as a committee member on a mental health task force at USU. He continues as a clinical social worker in his private practice, Resilience Counseling, where he works with clients experiencing mental illness and/or addictive disorders. C.J. has presented locally and nationally on topics including mental illness, sexual compulsivity, suicide prevention and intervention, and pedagogy in social work education. He is married with 3 children and lives in Northern Utah.
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