Description
Book SynopsisAddressing the critical intersection between mental health and the legal system, this book presents a competency-based approach to clinical practice with justice-involved couples and families.
Author Corinne C. Datchi demonstrates that couple and family interventions are vital components of rehabilitation for both youth and adults, supportingpositive family involvement and enhancingsolutions to delinquency and crime. Chapters layout essential data about juvenile and criminal justice systems, correctional populations, family systems theory, and forensic mental health issues, incorporating an understanding of these factors into the systemic assessment, case conceptualization, intervention, and treatment of clinical problems.
A compelling case study brings this foundational knowledge to life, with a focus on systems thinking and scientific knowledge, and illustrates the functional competencies necessary to work effectively with couples and families in the j
Trade Review
This remarkable book covers the field of empirically supported therapies for this hard-to-treat population while also providing clinical guidance on the implementation of these models. In this way it covers the substance of evidence-based practices and the common factor elements needed to use them. -- GUY DIAMOND, PHD, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR FAMILY INTERVENTION SCIENCE, DREXEL UNIVERSITY, AND PROFESSOR EMERITUS, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, PHILADELPHIA, PA
Dr. Datchi provides a concise yet thorough review of the diverse nature of incarcerated families and the systemic crises that derail them in an already traumatic moment, and offers evidence-based assessment and intervention strategies. This book deserves to be on an accessible shelf where we can reach for it again and again. -- LINDA BERG-CROSS, PHD, ABPP, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, DC
Table of Contents
Series Preface
Corinne C. Datchi and Anthony L. Chambers
Introduction: Treating Families in Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems
Chapter 1. Psychology and Justice: A Family Systems Approach to Offender Rehabilitation
Chapter 2. Correctional Populations in the United States: Diversity Factors
Chapter 3. The Ecology of Delinquency and Crime
Chapter 4. Clinical Practice With Justice-Involved Families: Systemic Assessment and Case Conceptualization
Chapter 5. Clinical Practice With Justice-Involved Couples and Families: Evidence-Based Treatment Programs
Chapter 6. From Science to Practice: Competency-Based Treatment Planning and Delivery
References
Index
About the Author and Series Editors
