ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the qualifications of the service providers. Service providers should be mental health professionals with formal education and training in the provision of psychotherapy. Although non–mental health professionals will understand the concepts and treatment strategies of changing lives and changing outcomes (CLCO), they will not have the prerequisite psychotherapy skills to effectively implement this program. Although CLCO utilizes a psycho-educational process, it is a psychotherapy program. Psychoeducation is implemented to teach criminal justice involved persons with mental illness (CJ-PMI) concepts and skills they need in order to make life changes; however, psychotherapy is necessary to help clients transfer the information they learn and skills they develop into a lifestyle change. That is, psychotherapy is necessary for long-term change to occur; thus, clinicians consider psychotherapy training at the masters or doctoral degree to be the prerequisite level of training for service providers to facilitate CLCO.
