Trauma, At The Heart of the Carceral System, Often Goes Untreated — an interview with Beth Chatham

Incarcerated host Phillip speaks with Beth Chatham, LCSW-C an experienced Trauma informed therapist. Beth graduated from University of MD Baltimore County in 1992 with a double major in Social Work and Sociology. She received her Masters in Social Work in 2007 from Salisbury University. Beth has worked with several populations including the homeless, adolescents at risk of being placed in detention centers, child protection as a case manager and child abuse investigator and international adoptions.  She transitioned to therapy in 2014 beginning in an inpatient adolescent psychiatric hospital and then to her current position in an outpatient mental health clinic.  She also has extensive training in trauma focused therapy, Eye Movement, Desensitization, and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR), Trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.  Beth became involved in social justice and prison reform while working with several men who after being released from prison were struggling after their release, they described trauma before and during prison and how that impacted them being successful upon release.   To reach Beth Chatham: [e-mail]   Giving season (End of Year Donations) 

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