Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation, 10th Ed.
By Emily J. Salisbury and Patricia Van Voorhis
This text presents the foundations of correctional treatment and intervention, including overviews of the major therapeutic modalities that are effective when intervening with justice-involved individuals to reduce ongoing system involvement and improve well-being. The text also focuses on diagnosis of mental illness, correctional assessment and classification, case planning strategies, and the necessary counseling and human service skills for working alongside system-involved people.
Specific chapters focus on working with women, individuals struggling with substance abuse, and clients with severely antisocial behavior such as psychopathy. Written to help students prepare for a career in correctional counseling or forensic social work, the book also assists working professionals (e.g., institutional and community corrections staff) to determine which strategies might be most effective with their clients. Revised using person-centered language, the 10th edition includes a new chapter focused on the necessary relational skills that probation and parole officers must have to be agents of behavior change. The content is divided into four parts: (1) A Professional Framework for Correctional Counseling; (2) Client Assessment, Diagnosis, Classification, and Case Planning; (3) Contemporary Approaches for Correctional Counseling and Treatment; and (4) Effective Correctional Interventions for Special Populations.
Students
The student site has six videos, and interactive quizzes for self-testing.
Video 1. Correctional Counseling: Interviews with Counselors
Many students are interested in a career as a correctional counselor but wonder what the job is really like. In this video, you’ll be introduced to five correctional counselors and learn about what it is like to work in the field of correctional rehabilitation and treatment.
Video 2. Women’s Risk Needs Assessment
Offender assessment classification is the cornerstone to effective treatment. Actuarial risk/need assessments are used to drive case planning and correctional treatment. In this video you’ll see a correctional counselor conduct the Women’s Risk Needs Assessment, a gender-responsive risk needs assessment, with a female inmate at a correctional facility.
Video 3. Cognitive Group Session: Thinking for a Change Example
Thinking for a Change is a cognitive behavioral program designed to teach offenders to recognize antisocial thoughts and behaviors and replace those with prosocial thoughts and behaviors. This video shows an example of a group counseling session in which offenders are working through some of the material in the Thinking for a Change curriculum. To learn more about this particular program go to: http://nicic.gov/t4c
Video 4. Individual Counseling Session
Correctional counselors are responsible for conducting individual counseling sessions with offenders. In this video you’ll see a counselor working with an incarcerated female offender. As you watch this video, think about the unique needs of female offenders that were discussed in the chapter. Which needs does this offender discuss?
Video 5. Case Management Session
In this video you’ll see a brief case management session between a correctional counselor and an incarcerated offender. Follow along with the sample case plan in the book and see how the counselor works through the document. What areas does the counselor focus on? What techniques does she use to help motivate the offender toward change? How does she handle the client’s resistance to treatment?
Video 6. Guiding the Field: Blending Research and Practice
In this video you’ll be introduced to a correctional practitioner turned researcher. In this interview she discusses the development of her career and the importance of using research and theory to inform practices in the field.
Instructors
The password-protected instructor site provides helpful instructor’s guides that include chapter overviews, objectives, key terms, online learning enhancements, and multiple-choice test questions, as well as a set of PowerPoint slides for classroom instruction.
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