Correctional Counseling and Treatment 6th Edition

Book Name: Correctional Counseling and Treatment 6th Edition
Author: Peter C. Kratcoski (auth.)
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
ISBN-10: 978-3-319-54348-2, 978-3-319-54349-9
Year: 2017
Pages: 314
Language: English
File size: 3 Mb
File format: PDF

Correctional Counseling and Treatment 6th Edition Pdf Book Description:

This publication gives an extensive summary of the methods utilized from the Criminal Justice system in the United States to advise and treat criminals. It’s aimed at advanced undergraduate and ancient graduate-level pupils for classes in Correctional Treatment or Rehabilitation, or Community Corrections more widely.

The segments in the publication supply:

– Aims and Scope of Correctional Counseling and Therapy
-Applications which Corrections Workers Use (including counselling and case management)
– Behavioral Modification Treatments: Cases and Software
– Psychological Therapies: Cases and Software

Through the text, there’s an emphasis on the big picture: the discussion of this correctional part of the justice system along with different elements, especially courts (like special courts such as relatives, drug courts, veterans courts as well as other applications).

Chapters in this book address the varied inhabitants of correctional facilities, such as juvenile offenders; people with mental illness, addiction and substance misuse issues, physical and psychological disabilities; and displaced inhabitants. The writer also provides evaluation of how laws affects the corrections process. This job can also be improved by giving comparative analysis of their juvenile and criminal justice systems: their objectives, goals, and how these may impact counselling and therapy accessible within both of these systems.

This pedagogical characteristics of this engaging text comprise: excerpted interviews with correctional professionals about the issues and challenges they experience, discussion questions, classification tools and real-world cases of certain treatments programs, as well as studies that provide pupils the opportunity to pick the appropriate interviewing, counselling or therapy strategy to take care of the issue / issues of this situation. This work provides pupils with an summary of the methods utilized for Correctional Therapy and Counseling, and the tools to start to believe seriously about how and when to employ these methods.