Correctional Counseling and Treatment

✍ Scribed by Peter C. Kratcoski (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Edition: 6
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the methods used in the Criminal Justice system in the United States to counsel and treat offenders. It is aimed at advanced undergraduate and early graduate-level students for courses in Correctional Treatment or Rehabilitation, or Community Corrections more broadly.

The sections in the book provide:

- Aims and Scope of Correctional Counseling and Treatment
-Tools that Corrections Workers Use (including counseling and case management)
- Behavioral Modification Treatments: Examples and Applications
- Cognitive Therapies: Examples and Applications

Throughout the text, there is an emphasis on the big picture: the interaction of the correctional component of the justice system with other components, particularly courts (including special courts like family courts, drug courts, veterans courts and other programs).

Chapters in this book address the diverse population of correctional facilities, including juvenile offenders; those with mental illness, addiction and substance abuse problems, physical and mental disabilities; and homeless populations. The author also provides analysis of how legislation influences the corrections process.

This work is also enhanced by providing comparative analysis of the criminal and juvenile justice systems: their goals, objectives, and how these can affect counseling and treatment available within these two systems.

This pedagogical features of this engaging text include: excerpted interviews with correctional practitioners about the problems and challenges they encounter, discussion questions, classification instruments and real-world examples of specific treatments programs, and case studies that give students the chance to select the appropriate interviewing, counseling or treatment approach to deal with the problem/ issues of the case.

This work provides students with an overview of the methods used for Correctional Treatment and Counseling, and the tools to begin to think critically about how and when to apply these methods.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
The Scope and Purposes of Correctional Treatment....Pages 3-16
Applying Restorative Justice Models in the Correctional Process....Pages 17-29
The Criminal Justice System in Transition: Assisting Victims of Crime....Pages 31-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-52
Continuity and Change in the Roles of Correctional Personnel....Pages 53-72
Treatment of Juvenile Offenders: Diversion and Formal Processing....Pages 73-91
Diverting Special Categories of Offenders to Community Treatment Programs....Pages 93-112
The Functions of Classification and Assessment Models in Correctional Treatment....Pages 113-130
Community-Based Sanctions: Probation and Post-release Supervision....Pages 131-160
Community Residential Treatment and Institutional Treatment....Pages 161-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-188
The Interview: A Basic Tool Used in Correctional Counseling and Treatment....Pages 189-205
Behavior Modification Programs Used in Corrections....Pages 207-224
Group Counseling in Corrections....Pages 225-238
Brief Therapy and Crisis Intervention....Pages 239-254
Cognitive Behavioral Therapies Used in Correctional Treatment....Pages 255-271
Future Perspectives on Counseling and Treatment of Criminal and Delinquent Offenders....Pages 273-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-314

✦ Subjects

Prison and Punishment;Psychotherapy and Counseling;Public Policy;Medicine/Public Health, general