Description
Book SynopsisFor courses in Correctional Counseling, Correctional Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Corrections.
Written by practitioners in the field, Correctional Counseling offers a strong practitioner orientation, enabling students to become proficient in providing basic correctional counseling services to the offender population. The desire to provide a teaching-and-learning aid that will create practitioners in the field who are competent in offender treatment is the overarching goal of this text. Students are provided basic information on underlying theoretical perspectives among a variety of counseling approaches, and the text addresses the details of the counseling and treatment process itself, explaining exactly how correctional counseling is done in the field.
Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Role of the Correctional Counselor
Chapter 2: Legal, Ethical, and Cross-Cultural Issues
Chapter 3: Assessment, Classification, & Treatment Planning
Chapter 4: Rapport-Building, Person-Centered Techniques, & Goal-Setting
Chapter 5: Common Theoretical Counseling Perspectives
Chapter 6: Family Systems Therapy and Counseling
Chapter 7: Group Therapy
Chapter 8: Substance Abuse Counseling & Co-occurring disorders
Chapter 9: Youth Counseling and Juvenile Offenders
Chapter 10: Anger Management and Domestic Abuse Counseling/Facilitating
Chapter 11: Female Offenders and Correctional Counseling
Chapter 12: Sex Offenders
Chapter 13: HIV/AIDS, Dying/Grief & Mourning, Older Offenders, & Suicide Issues
Chapter 14: Evaluation, Effectiveness, Relapse, & Offender Recidivism
