Correctional Counseling and Rehabilitation

• Author(s): Patricia Van Voorhis, Emily Salisbury,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 456
• ISBN_10: 1455730513
  ISBN_13: 9781455730513
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Criminology , Social Science / Penology , Psychology / Assessment, Testing & Measurement , Psychology / Psychotherapy / Counseling , Psychology / Social Psychology ,

Description:...

This text presents foundations of correctional intervention, including overviews of the major systems of therapeutic intervention, diagnosis of mental illness, and correctional assessment and classification. Its detailed descriptions and cross-approach comparisons can help professionals better determine which of several techniques might be especially useful in their particular setting.

• Provides a clear and comprehensive picture of current approaches for treating and rehabilitating correctional clients
• Fits major paradigms of psychotherapy to the unique needs of offenders
• Describes tools and skill sets essential for the correctional counselor
• Includes key concepts and terms and discussion questions in every chapter

• Features a new chapter on treating women offenders based on the authors’ considerable expertise in that area