Correctional counseling
This book 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 …
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- Full title :Correctional counseling / Robert D. Hanser, Scott M. Mire ; with contributions by Alton Braddock.
Summary
This book 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.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Prentice Hall
- Place of Publication:Boston, Mass
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 394 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780135129258, 0135129257
- oclc:on1079871650
- LC Classification:HV9276 H36 2011
Table of Contents
1. The role of the correctional counselor. -- 2. Legal, ethical, and cross-cultural issues. -- 3. Assessment, classification, & treatment planning. -- 4. Rapport-building, person-centered techniques, & goal-setting. -- 5. Common theoretical counseling perspectives. -- 6. Family systems therapy and counseling. -- 7. Group therapy. -- 8. Substance abuse counseling & co-occurring disorders. -- 9. Youth counseling and juvenile offenders. -- 10. Anger management and domestic abuse counseling/facilitating. -- 11. Female offenders and correctional counseling. -- 12. Sex offenders. -- 13. HIV/AIDS, dying/grief & mourning, older offenders, & suicide issues. -- 14. Evaluation, effectiveness, relapse, & offender recidivism.
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