Full Description
For courses in Correctional Counseling and Treatment.Offering perspectives from twenty-one leading experts in the field, this book shows how to apply evidence-based counseling and treatment approaches to offender rehabilitation. Each chapter includes summaries of the latest government reports, treatment guidelines, evidence-based counseling practices, research findings, trends and statistics, program evaluations, journal review articles, and meta-analyses. Discussion is on revitalizing the corrections profession, with an emphasis on rehabilitation policies and programs based on scientific evidence and treatment technology transfer. Complete and up-to-date, the text's goal is to formalize ideas, raise issues, and document best practices from which effective programs can be replicated.
Contents
SECTION I1. Introduction and Overview of Correctional Counseling and TreatmentBy Albert r. Roberts, Ph.D and Pia Biswas, B.A.2. Assessing the Role of Clinical and Actuarial Risk Assessment in an Evidence-Based Community Corrections System: Issues to ConsiderBy James M. Byrne, Ph.D. and april Pattavina, Ph.D.3. Assessment, Classification, and Treatment with Juvenile DelinquentsBy Jemel P. Aguilar, Ph.D. and David W. Springer, Ph.D.4. Overcoming Sisyphus: Assessment of Mental Health Disorders and Risk of Re-Offending among Juvenile OffendersBy Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D. and Kimberly Bender, M.S.W.5. Effective Family Interventions for Youthful Offenders: Some Important ConsiderationsBy Craig Dowden, Ph.D. and D.A. Andrews, Ph.D.6. Juvenile Offender Suicide: Prevalence, Risk Factors, Assessment, and Crisis Intervention ProtocolsBy Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D. and Kimberly Bender, M.S.W.7. Finding Evidence-Based Juvenile Offender Treatment Programs: A National SurveyBy Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D. and Kimberly Bender, M.S.W.8. Treating the Mentally Ill Offender: An OverviewBy Kathi R. Trawver, M.S.W.9. Prison Group CounselingBy Sabrina R. Haugebrook, M.P.A. and Kristen M. Zgoba, Ph.D.10. California's Correctional Drug Treatment SystemBy William M. Burdon, Ph.D. Michael L. Prendergast, Ph.D. & Harry K. Wexler, Ph.D.11. Sexual Offenders: Assessment and TreatmentBy Shahid M. Shahidullah, Ph.D. and Diane L. Green, Ph.D.12. Behavioral Management Tools of the TradeBy Faye Taxman, Ph.D. and James M. Byrne, Ph.D.13. Inmate Suicide: Prevalence, Assessment, and ProtocolsBy Stephen J. Tripodi, MSSW, Kimberly Bender, MSW, & Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D.14. Executive Functioning in the Brain: Assessment and Treatment of At-Risk OffendersBy Mark H. Stone, Ph.D.15. Correctional Social WorkBy Harris Chaiklin, Ph.D.
